1. FAQ: Subcontract -or- Consultant -or- Contracted Services ?
2. Etta: A Grant-Funded Performance on Nov. 8
3. Internal Funding for Research at UNCG
4. Call for NSF iCorps teams (for inventors and innovators!)
5. Sampling of External Funding Opportunities
   a. NEH – Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
   b. NEH – Collaborative Research Grants
   c. NEH – Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
   d. CDC – Promoting, Strengthening and Enhancing Disease Prevention by Collaboration with Targeted Stakeholders
   e. NIH – NHLBI – Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for ‘Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research’ (PRIDE) Summer Institutes (R25)
   f. NSF – Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences – Social Psychology Program
   g. NSF – Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences – Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) Program
   h. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions Call for Proposals – Developing Solutions for Social Isolation in the United States: Learning From the World.
   i. NIH – NIMHD/NCI/NIEHS/NIAAA/NIDA: Addressing Health Disparities through Effective Interventions among Immigrant Populations
   j. NSF- Dimensions of Biodiversity
   k. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts – Grants for Organizations

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1. FAQ: Subcontract -or- Consultant ?

For grants with external collaborators, you may need to decide how to set up each collaboration: as a subcontract or a consultant agreement. Not sure which is right for your situation? Staff in OSP and C&G have worked together to assemble the following handy chart for quick reference (also attached as a printer-friendly pdf):

 

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2. Etty: A Grant-Funded Performance on Nov. 8

Attached is the announcement of a major event coming to campus on Nov. 8. It’s funded by a combination of internal & external grants.

ETTY
Adapted and Performed Susan Stein
Directed by Austin Pendleton
Wednesday, November 8
7:00pm Ferguson 100 (auditorium)
[corner of Spring Garden St. & Highland Ave.]
Free Admission

Public performance of Etty, a first-person portrayal of Etty Hillesum
consisting entirely of Etty’s own letters and diary.

Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish woman who witnessed the Nazi occupation of Holland and eventually was killed in Auschwitz, at age 29. Her diary has been translated into 67 languages.

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3. Internal Funding and Recognition for Research at UNCG

a. INNOVATE PROJECTS for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research

The Office of the Provost is soliciting proposals for the newly formed Intentional, Notable, & Valued Teaching Experiences (INNOVATE) Research Projects. Projects under the INNOVATE RFP offer full-time UNCG faculty one-time mini-grants to conduct research that investigates the development, evaluation, and promotion of student success through innovative teaching practices at the University. These studies shall uncover results impacting student success that can be shared across the campus (internally) and also be publishable (externally). The aim of each grant is to promote innovative teaching strategies, practices, and pedagogies that successfully transform student learning experiences by positively affecting specific outcomes, including:

at the undergraduate level:

• persistence rates,
• retention rates,
• graduation rates, and
• other measures of undergraduate student success (please specify).

or at the graduate level:

• the number of students returning beyond the first year to continue/complete degree work,
• the retention rates of students who are members of a minority population,
• the number of students producing juried scholarly or juried creative activity (e.g., publications, grants, performances, etc.), and
• other measures of graduate student success (please specify).

Please see https://utlc.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/INNOVATE-RFP_FINAL_FORM.pdf
Proposals due December 11 at 5PM

b. Workshops are being offered for interested faculty applying for Faculty First Awards on Wed., 11/29, 3:00-4:30 PM, 1607 MHRA OR Thurs., 11/30, 9:00-10:30 AM, 1607 MHRA

Faculty First Awards are offered to tenure-track and tenured faculty in the form of “Tenure-Track Faculty First Awards” and “Tenured Faculty First Awards”. Faculty may apply for Faculty First Awards from January 1, 2017, through February 28, 2018, at 5pm. Faculty First Awards typically fund summer scholarship and require participation in a Spring 2019 presentation event.

See more at http://research.uncg.edu/internal-grants-and-awards/.

Register at https://workshops.uncg.edu.

c. Research Excellence Nominations Deadline, December 1
http://research.uncg.edu/research-excellence-awards/

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4. Call for NSF iCorps teams (for inventors and innovators!)

Through a competitive evaluation process UNCG & NCAT have been awarded a 5-year, $500,000 NSF grant to become established as an I-Corps Site. The goal of this iCorps site is to facilitate the commercialization of innovative ideas and research. The program will focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics but a will also look to provide training to any innovation that provides scalable solutions to societal problems.

Through the new Greensboro I-Corps program students, faculty and alumni of UNCG and NCAT would be eligible to receive up to $5000 in mini grant funding to explore if their idea or innovation has the potential to become a scalable business.

Learn more and apply online at: https://icorps.uncg.edu/

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5. Sampling of External Funding Opportunities

a. 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 only in inadequate editions or transcriptions. 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. Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. Translation projects should also explain the theory and method adopted for the particular work to be translated. Editions and translations produced with NEH support contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to their subject matter and format. This usually means introductions and annotations that provide essential information about a text’s form, transmission, and historical and intellectual context. Proposals for editions of foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding, as well as proposals for editions of translated materials.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=297856

Deadline Dec 6, 2017

b. NEH – Collaborative Research Grants

Debate, exchange of ideas, and working together—all are basic activities that advance humanities knowledge and foster rich scholarship that would not be possible by researchers working on their own. The Collaborative Research grant program encourages collaboration that proposes diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view, and explores new avenues of inquiry that lead to publications and other resources for scholarly audiences and/or general audiences. Collaborative Research grants support groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities. The program seeks to encourage interdisciplinary work, both within the humanities and beyond. Projects that include partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences are encouraged, but they must remain firmly rooted in the humanities and must employ humanistic methods. Eligible projects must propose tangible and sustainable outcomes such as co-authored or multi-authored books; born-digital publications; themed issues of peer-reviewed journals; and content-rich, open-access digital resources (for example, websites, databases, or tools). All project outcomes must be based on and must convey interpretive humanities research. All grantees are expected to disseminate the results of their work to scholarly audiences and/or general audiences. Collaborative Research offers three types of awards to address different sorts of projects and stages of development. Type 1: Convening Grants – up to $50,000 Convening grants last one year and typically fund conferences and working group meetings to sharpen the chosen research topic and discuss and plan subsequent publication. Type 2: Publication Grants – up to $250,000 (no more than $100,000 per year) Publication grants last one to three years and support the project toward completion of its publication goals. Publications can appear in traditional print or in digital form. Note that costs paid to publishers and subventions are not supported. Type 3: Archaeology Grants – up to $250,000 (no more than $100,000 per year) Archaeology grants last one to three years and support projects that lead to publication.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=297854

Deadline Dec 6, 2017

c. NEH – Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

The Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) program helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections, and support institutional resilience: the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters. Cultural institutions, including libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations, face an enormous challenge: to preserve humanities collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning. To ensure the preservation of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects, cultural institutions must implement measures that slow deterioration and prevent catastrophic loss from natural or man-made emergencies. They can accomplish this work most effectively through preventive conservation. Preventive conservation encompasses managing relative humidity, temperature, light, and pollutants in collection spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguarding collections from theft, fire, floods, and other disasters. As museums, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, they must find ways to implement preventive conservation measures that are sustainable. This program therefore helps cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies that pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact. Sustainable approaches to preservation can contribute to an institution’s financial health, reduce its use of fossil fuels, and benefit its green initiatives, while ensuring that collections are well cared for and available for use in humanities programming, education, and research. Sustainable preventive conservation measures may also aim to prepare and plan for, absorb, respond to, recover from, and more successfully protect collections in the event of natural or man-made disasters. Effective and sustainable preservation strategies must be informed by the nature of an institution and its collections. All applicants, whether at the planning or the implementation level, should have completed the process of basic preservation planning; they should also clearly state how sustainable strategies will address priorities established in existing preservation or collection management plans. Sustainable preservation strategies can take many forms, depending on collection materials, the building envelope, and the local climate. However, interdisciplinary collaboration during planning and implementation of these strategies is essential. In SCHC projects, such teams typically consist of consultants and members of the institution’s staff and can include architects, building engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, and facilities managers, among others.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=297837

Deadline Dec 5, 2017

d. CDC – Promoting, Strengthening and Enhancing Disease Prevention by Collaboration with Targeted Stakeholders

The purpose of this NOFO is to provide support for: Communication and education activities to promote and maintain accurate information about vaccines among stakeholders and the general public Education of USDA/WIC staff about the latest vaccine recommendations and vaccine access points to facilitate vaccination referrals to WIC participants Education of elementary school students, as well as their parents and teachers, to increase awareness about the seriousness of influenza and the importance of annual vaccination among these audiences, with the intent of increasing vaccination coverage

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=297832

Estimated Application Due Date: May 30, 2018

e. NIH – NHLBI – Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for ‘Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research’ (PRIDE) Summer Institutes (R25)

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute intends to publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications for the Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health Related Research (PRIDE) Summer Institutes. The PRIDE Summer Institutes programs aim to enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce through provision of research education and mentoring experiences for junior faculty from underrepresented backgrounds, at NHLBI-funded summer institutes across the nation.

This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop responsive applications. The FOA is expected to be published in December 2017 with an application due date in March 2018 and will utilize the R25 mechanism.

This FOA will solicit applications for Summer Institute programs that will support research education and mentoring activities/experiences for junior faculty and transitioning postdoctoral scientists, who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. The goal over the PRIDE program is that through the summer institute experience matriculants, recruited nationwide, will be able to enhance their research skills and gain experiences in advanced methods and experimental approaches in the basic and applied sciences relevant to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) mission. Transitioning postdocs in this context refers to individuals who are transitioning into academic research careers and will have an offer of full-time employment as a junior faculty at the time of enrollment into the PRIDE program.

This FOA will run in parallel with a separate FOA that solicits applications for a PRIDE Coordinating Center. More information pertaining to the associated Coordinating Center (U24) FOA see Notice NOT-HL-17-528.

To be responsive to the planned FOA, applicants for the Summer Institutes programs must a.) offer scientific, career development and research enhancing experiences in one of the following NHLBI mission areas (i.e., heart, lung, blood, or sleep (HLBS) disorders, or HLBS-relevant health disparities research), b.) focus on only one scientific topic area and c.) address the needs of junior faculty from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical sciences as noted by the National Science Foundation.

Applications concerning AIDS and AIDS-related topics will not be included in the planned FOA. Applicants will be evaluated on their research education program content and structure, and their research mentoring teams. Applicants are therefore strongly encouraged to build teams with demonstrated expertise in research education, mentoring, and program evaluation. Awards made through this planned FOA will be for 5 years.

Applications are not being solicited at this time. No further details about the impending Funding Opportunity can be discussed until after the Funding Opportunity Announcement has been published.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HL-17-527.html
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HL-17-528.html
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/training/PRIDE-research-programs

The FOA is expected to be published in December 2017 with an application due date in March 2018.

f. NSF – Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences – 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.

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5712

Deadline Dates: 16-Jan-2018 and 16-Jul-2018

g. NSF – Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences – Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) Program

DS supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.

DS supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of cognitive, social, emotional, and motor development across the lifespan by working with 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 affect developmental 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 development; includes participants from a range of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural), and time scales.

In addition to consulting the NSF awards database, it is often useful for interested applicants to submit (via email) a summary of no more than one page so that the Program Director can advise the investigator on the fit of the project for DS prior to preparation of a full proposal. New Investigators are encouraged to solicit assistance in the preparation of their project proposals via consultation with senior researchers in their area, pre-submission review by colleagues, and attendance at symposia and events at professional conferences geared towards educating investigators seeking federal funding.

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671

Deadline Date: 16-Jan-2018

h. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions Call for Proposals – Developing Solutions for Social Isolation in the United States: Learning From the World.

With this call for proposals (CFP), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is looking for the best ideas from around the world that address social isolation and promote positive, healthy social connections and well-being. They will support projects that promote approaches developed outside the United States that address social isolation, across all stages and ages of life, in U.S. individuals, groups, and communities. Populations of interest include children, adolescents, young adults, mothers, and families at risk or isolated because of issues including religion, gender identity, race or ethnicity, health issues, disabilities, and/or trauma; those living in rural communities and/or communities with insufficient basic community infrastructure or who may otherwise be politically or structurally disempowered; and others who may be now or who are at risk to become socially isolated. Preference will be given to projects focused on children, adolescents, adults, mothers and families at risk. Up to $2.5 million will be available for this funding opportunity with funding likely to range from $250,000 to $750,000.

https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/funding-opportunities/2017/developing-solutions-for-social-isolation-in-the-us–learning-from-the-world.html

Deadline Date: 21-Dec-2017

i. NIH – NIMHD/NCI/NIEHS/NIAAA/NIDA: Addressing Health Disparities through Effective Interventions among Immigrant Populations

The goal of the Immigrant health initiative is to support research to design and implement effective interventions to reduce the health disparities among immigrant populations (particularly migrant workers, recent and 1st generation immigrants) and address issues that promote health equity. For the purposes of this funding announcement, the term “1st generation” refers to people who were born in their native country and relocated to the U.S. The term “2nd generation” refers to the U.S. born children of 1st generation immigrants.

The intervention research under this FOA should be aimed at improving the health outcome among immigrant groups by targeting the causes or consequences of health disparities. Multi-level interventions that include a combination of individual, group (such as peers, family members, etc.), and/or community-level intervention components have been shown to be effective in improving health outcomes. Therefore, this FOA strongly encourages multi-level interventions (i.e., ranging from individuals to societies) in addressing immigrant health disparities.

R01: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-18-284.html
R21: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-18-285.html

Deadline Dates (ALL): 05-Oct-2018, 07-May-2018, 05-Oct-2019, 05-Jun-2019, 07-Sep-2019, 07-Jan-2019, 07-May-2019, 07-Sep-2018, 05-Jun-2018, 05-Feb-2018, 07-Jan-2020, 05-Feb-2019

j. NSF- Dimensions of Biodiversity

Despite centuries of discovery, most of our planet’s biodiversity remains unknown. The scale of the unknown diversity on Earth is especially troubling given the rapid and permanent loss of biodiversity across the globe. The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform, by 2020, how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and focuses on the intersection of genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals must integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions and feedbacks among them. While this focus complements several core programs in BIO, it differs by requiring that multiple dimensions of biodiversity be addressed simultaneously, in novel ways, to understand their synergistic roles in critical ecological and evolutionary processes, especially pertaining to the mechanisms driving the origin, maintenance, and functional roles of biodiversity. The Dimensions of Biodiversity program includes partnerships with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil, and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa in fiscal year 2018. Investigators wishing to inquire about the suitability of potential projects for Dimensions of Biodiversity are encouraged to email a brief summary and contact information to Dimensions@nsf.gov.

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=298345

Due date: Feb 28, 2018

k. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts – Grants for Organizations

The Graham Foundation offers Production, Presentation and Publication Support Grants to organizations. These grants assist organizations with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, publications, exhibitions, installations, films, new media projects, conferences/lectures, and other public programs.

http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs?mode=organization

Deadline Dates: 25-Feb-2018