News, Events and Resources for the WSU Research Community
2023
Congratulations to those who received grants in December! Thanks to all of their talents and hard work, as of December 31, 2022, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted proposals budgeting a total of $44,492,602, received $23,992,544 in awards, and generated $1,996,162 in indirect cost recovery thus far for FY2023. However, the last number of IDC recovery will likely change after the new F&A rates have been finalized for an effective date of July 1, 2022, following negotiations with the federal government, as described below in an Announcement.
This month’s newsletter provides an opportunity to get to know a little about Shane Coelho in his role as Research Grant Administrator for Post-Award in the Office of Research in Academic Affairs.
We wish you much success in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
FY 22 FEDERAL PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS GRANT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Office of Justice Programs
Amount: $168,065
MIDWEST INDUSTRIAL ASSESSMENT CENTER
PI/Department: Deepak Gupta, Engineering Technology
Sponsor: University of Missouri / Department of Energy
Amount: $141,200
GRAZING INTENSITY ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Gregory Houseman, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Department of Agriculture
Amount: $1,998,952
HAYSVILLE GEAR UP (YEAR 5)
PI/Department: Brett Lukert, ED - GEAR-UP
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $600,000
APPENDIX C: RADIATION-INDUCED CARCINOGENESIS BIOMARKER IDENTIFICATION WITH HYDROGEL-BASED ORGAN-ON-A-CHIP SYSTEM
PI/Department: Leonard Miller, Aerospace Engineering
Co-PI/Department: David Long, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $99,715
APPENDIX E: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF NUCLEAR FUELS FOR DEEP SPACE MISSIONS
PI/Department: Leonard Miller, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $100,000
"WATER-LIKE" IONIC LIQUIDS FOR ENZYMATIC CARBON-CARBON BOND FORMATION
PI/Department: Katie Mitchell-Koch, Chemistry
Sponsor: University Of Minnesota / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $53,009
NEAR DETECTOR MEASUREMENTS TO ENABLE NEUTRINO OSCILLATION MEASUREMENTS IN DUNE AND NOVA
PI/Department: Mathew Muether, Physics
Sponsor: Department of Energy
Amount: $275,000
NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK H: TOWARDS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN FRAMEWORK FOR THE CREATION AND IMPACT ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY MAPS WITH PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
PI/Department: Vinod Namboodiri, School of Computing
Co-PI/Department: Nils Hakansson, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $750,000
EXPERIENCES OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AMONG MIDDLE EASTERN INTIMATE PARTNER SURVIVORS: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
PI/Department: Burcu Ozturk, School of Social Work
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
MOCK TRIAL - STEVALB2
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $5,500
MOBILITY OF HEAVY METALS IN SOILS IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
PI/Department: Andrew Swindle, Geology
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,444
THE FACE OF MEN'S CHOIRS: TRADITIONS AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
PI/Department: Thomas Wine, School of Music
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas
Amount: $22,664
BUTLER COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Susan B Allen Memorial Hosp
Amount: $5,300
WSU AMERICORPS KANSAS 2022 - 2023
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas State Department of Education / Corp for National & Community Service
Amount: $173,826
INDUSTRIAL ASSESSMENT CENTER (IAC) AT OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
PI/Department: Mehmet Yildirim, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Deepak Gupta, Engineering Technology
Sponsor: Oklahoma State University / Department of Energy
Amount: $80,000
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE OF SUNFLOWER GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION GRID
PI/Department: Mehmet Yildirim, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Ehsan Salari, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: Sunflower Electric Power Corporation
Amount: $90,000
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $33,035,870 OF WHICH THE ENTIRE AMOUNT BELONGS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AVIATION RESEARCH (NIAR).
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized search please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
Funding Agency: Farmers Advocating for Organics (FAFO)
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due January 25, 2023; If invited, full applications due February 8, 2023
Purpose: “Grants are awarded to research, education and advocacy projects that advance FAFO’s mission: to protect and promote the organic industry and the livelihood of organic farmers. Within this context, FAFO is currently prioritizing projects that focus on 1) Projects that benefit family farmers who produce organic dairy, eggs, meat, produce, and grain/forage; 2) Projects that focus on organic soil health and biology.”
Amount: $5,000-$50,000
Funding Agency: Baylor University Institute for Oral History
Title: Charlton Oral History Research Grant
Application Deadline: January 27, 2023
Purpose: “The Baylor University Institute for Oral History invites individual scholars with training and experience in oral history research who are conducting oral history interviews to apply for support of up to $3,000 for one year (June through May). With this grant, the Institute seeks to partner with one scholar who is using oral history to address new questions and offer fresh perspectives on a subject area in which the research method has not yet been extensively applied. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural research on local, national, or international subjects is welcome.”
Amount: $3,000
Funding Agency: Flossie E. West Memorial Trust
Title: FY 2023 Research Related to the Study and Cure of Cancer
Application Deadline: February 1, 2023
Purpose: “The Flossie E. West Memorial Trust provides support for research relating to the study and cure of cancer. Two grants will be awarded for up to $36,280 each. Priority will be given to basic research projects that develop pilot data for proposals to be submitted to government agencies, foundations, or industries. However, all eligible research projects are encouraged to apply. Funds are restricted to WSU faculty project expenses.” Email proposals@wichita.edu for a copy of the solicitation.
Amount: Up to $36,280
Funding Agency: K-INBRE
Title: Core Facility Support and Recruitment/Start-up Package Awards
Application Deadline: February 1, 2023
Purpose: “Core Facility Support is for the purpose of providing funds to institutional core facilities that support the research focus of the K-INBRE, Cell and Developmental Biology. Recruitment/Start-up packages are for the purpose of assisting in the process of bringing in new faculty to K-INBRE Undergraduate Partner Institutions (UPI) and helping in the establishment of their research laboratories.”
Amount: $10,000 for Core Facility Awards; $25,000 for Recruitment/Start-up Awards
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)
Application Deadline: Mandatory Letter of Intent due February 1, 2023; Full application due April 19, 2023
Purpose: “The Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS), through its ASCENT program, offers its engineering community the opportunity to address research issues and answer engineering challenges associated with complex systems and networks that are not achievable by a single principal investigator or by short-term projects and can only be achieved by interdisciplinary research teams. ECCS envisions a connected portfolio of transformative and integrative projects that create synergistic links by investigators across its three ECCS clusters: Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS), Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices (EPMD), and Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN), yielding novel ways of addressing challenges of engineering systems and networks. ECCS seeks proposals that are bold and ground-breaking, transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts, and lead to disruptive technologies and methods or enable significant improvement in quality of life.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Title: National Trust Preservation Funds
Application Deadline: February 1, 2023
Purpose: “Grants from National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting on-going preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for preservation projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector.”
Amount: $2,500-$5,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: AAMTO FY22 Multi-Topic FOA
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due February 3, 2023
Purpose: “This multitopic Funding Opportunity Announcement is a joint effort between EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), the Building Technologies Office (BTO), and DOE’s Office of Electricity (OE). Specifically, the goals of this multi-topic FOA are to: 1) Validate and demonstrate next generation materials and manufacturing processes including domestic pilot demonstrations and related technologies to support the transition to U.S. manufacturing; 2) Enable environmentally and socially responsible domestic manufacturing with diversified domestic supply of feedstocks including from recycled goods; and 3) Mature nascent technologies, processes, and methods that improve the performance and market penetration of clean energy technologies and emerging building efficiency technologies. This FOA will support activities to advance efficiency improvements and enhance manufacturing competitiveness through technological innovation by focusing on three main topic areas: (1) Next Generation Materials and Manufacturing Processes; (2) Secure and Sustainable Materials; and (3) Energy Technology Manufacturing. The multi-topic FOA integrates several identified research opportunities across AMMTO into a single funding opportunity that is intended to fund high-impact RD&D.”
Amount: $200,000-$10,000,000 depending on topic. Note, Cost Share is required.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages multidisciplinary projects to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to develop and implement an environmental public health action plan based on research findings. Projects supported under this program will employ community-engaged research methods to conduct research and to translate research findings into public health action. This announcement reflects NIEHS’ and NIMHD's commitment to environmental health disparities and environmental justice research. This FOA also advances efforts to nurture and sustain trust and bi-directional communication between academic researchers and affected communities. The Research to Action program is part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) “Partnerships for Environmental Public Health” (PEPH) network.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $500,000 in Direct Costs.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative research to understand factors uniquely associated with the immigration experience that contribute to health disparities or health advantages among U.S. immigrant populations.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Title: Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
Application Deadlines: February 5, 2023; June 5, 2023; October 5, 2023
Purpose: “NIMH seeks applications for innovative research projects to test strategies to increase the reach, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of digital mental health interventions which may impact mental health outcomes, including suicide behaviors and serious mental illness. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is intended to support the development of digital health test beds that leverage well-established digital mental health platforms and infrastructure to rapidly refine and optimize existing evidence-based digital health interventions and to conduct clinical research testing digital mental health interventions that are statistically powered to provide a definitive answer regarding the intervention's effectiveness particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Research PCORI Funding Announcements (PFA)
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due February 7, 2023
Purpose: “PCORI has opened the application period for several funding opportunities. Letters of Intent are currently being accepted for: Comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects on high-priority topics and Studies on how to improve the methods used to conduct patient-centered CER. Research PFAs cover: Adolescent alcohol use, Broad pragmatic studies in all areas (NEW: proposed studies to align with at least one of PCORI’s National Priorities for Health), Delirium in older adults, Improving maternal outcomes by addressing health conditions and social determinants of health, Improving methods for conducting patient-centered CER, and the Science of engagement.”
Amount: Varies by topic
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Implementation PCORI Funding Announcements (PFA)
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due February 7, 2023
Purpose: “PCORI has opened the application period for several funding opportunities. Letters of Intent are currently being accepted for: Projects to implement results into practice. Implementation PFAs include Findings from PCORI’s research investments, Limited competition for phased or standard or projects, and Shared decision making in practice settings.”
Amount: Varies by topic
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Title: Grants for Arts Projects
Application Deadlines: February 9, 2023 and July 6, 2023
Purpose: “Grants for Arts Projects is NEA’s largest grants program for organizations, providing comprehensive and expansive funding opportunities for communities. Through project-based funding, the program supports opportunities for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.”
Amount: $10,000-$100,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: National Kidney Foundation
Title: Young Investigator Research Grant
Application Deadline: February 13, 2023
Purpose: “NKF established the Young Investigator Research Grant program to support clinical research studies addressing important issues for patients with kidney disease. Projects must be patient-oriented.”
Amount: $35,000
Funding Agency: Kansas Suffragist Memorial Committee
Title: Request for Qualifications
Application Deadline: February 15, 2023
Purpose: “The Kansas Suffragist Memorial Committee is seeking professional artists or artist teams to develop innovative, original art to be incorporated as part of the new display at the Kansas State Capitol building. A dedicated website is under construction and will be up soon.at: kssuffragist.org. Interested artists should submit the following via email by February 15, 2023: A letter of interest, a brief professional resume/CV and an annotated image list.” Please email proposals@wichita.edu for more details.
Amount: Small stipend to cover partial costs for the artist’s proposal
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: There is a mandatory technical feasibility review that must be requested by the proposer from the Agile Biofoundry using the instructions at https://www.nsf.gov/bio/mcb/ABF.jsp. The request for feasibility review must be submitted no later than February 15, 2023. If invited, full applications will be due April 18, 2023.
Purpose: “The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (DOE BETO) recognize the critical roles that synthetic and engineering biology play in advancing the U.S. Bioeconomy. To translate advances in synthetic and engineering biology into products and processes that will impact the U.S. bioeconomy, there is a need to accelerate innovation and adopt new biomanufacturing approaches. The integrated Design-Build-Test-Learn (DBTL) capabilities of the DOE BETO funded Agile BioFoundry (ABF) offer a unique resource to the academic community to develop and implement innovative biodesign and biomanufacturing technologies and practices.”
Amount: Project scope and budget to be determined at feasibility review.
Funding Agency: Henry Luce Foundation
Title: Advancing Public Knowledge on Democracy, Race and Religion in America
Application Deadline: Concept Note due February 15, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 15, 2023
Purpose: “The Henry Luce Foundation’s Religion and Theology Program seeks new ideas for projects that will deepen public understanding of — and promote more productive public discussions about — democracy, race and religion in America.”
Amount: $200,000-$400,000
Funding Agency: Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Title: Adult Literacy Grant or Family Literacy Grant
Application Deadline: February 16, 2023
Purpose: “We award adult literacy funding to organizations that provide direct services to adults in need of literacy assistance in one of the following areas: 1) Adult Basic Education, 2) GED or high school equivalency preparation, and 3) English Language Acquisition. Nonprofit organizations who support the whole family in literacy and are seeking funding are encouraged to apply if they provide the following 1) Adult Education Instruction, 2) Children’s Education or 3) Parent and Child Together Time (PACT).”
Amount: $10,000
Funding Agency: Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI)
Title: Addressing Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction
Application Deadline: February 16, 2023
Purpose: “HABRI is issuing a call for research proposals from institutions and organizations across the globe to investigate the health outcomes of pet ownership and/or animal-assisted interventions (AAI) or therapy, both for the people and the animals involved. Proposals should have a strong theoretical framework and focus on innovative approaches to studying the health effects of companion animals on humans within the following broad categories: 1) Child Health and Development, 2) Healthy Aging and 3) Mental & Physical Health and Wellness.”
Amount: While there is no budget cap, HABRI awards an average of five-six projects each year with project costs averaging approximately $45,000 per project and an average duration of about 20 months.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Nursing Research
Application Deadlines: February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023
Purpose: “This funding announcement solicits R21 grant applications that propose exploratory/developmental research projects that are consistent with the research framework detailed in the 2022-2026 National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Strategic Plan. This research will be rooted in nursing's holistic, contextualized approach to understanding people and their health, address the nation's most pressing and persistent health challenges with a solutions orientation, and employ innovative and rigorous study designs to inform practice and policy.”
Amount: Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year project period.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Application Deadlines: February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports pilot work for subsequent studies testing the effectiveness of strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health services, treatment interventions, and/or preventive interventions (EBPs) in low-resourced mental health specialty and non-specialty settings within the United States. The FOA targets settings where EBPs are not currently delivered or delivered with fidelity, such that there are disparities in mental health and related functional outcomes (e.g., employment, educational attainment, stable housing, integration in the community, treatment of comorbid substance use disorders) for the population(s) served. Implementation strategies should identify and use innovative approaches to remediate barriers to provision, receipt, and/or benefit from EBPs and generate new information about factors integral to achieving equity in mental health outcomes for underserved populations. Research generating new information about factors causing/reducing disparities is strongly encouraged, including due consideration for the needs of individuals across the life span.”
Amount: Direct costs are limited to $225,000 per year and $450,000 over the 3-year project period.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Application Deadlines: February 16, 2023; June 16, 2023; October 16, 2023
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage innovative pilot research that will inform and support the delivery of high-quality, continuously improving mental health services to benefit the greatest number of individuals with, or at risk for developing, a mental illness. This announcement invites applications for non-clinical trial pilot projects that address NIMH strategic priorities to strengthen the public health impact of NIMH-supported research as described in Goal 4 of the NIMH Strategic Plan.”
Amount: Direct costs are limited to $225,000 per year and $450,000 over the 3-year project period.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
Application Deadlines: February 17, 2023
Purpose: “The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects.”
Amount: $600,000-$1,200,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit four proposals in response to this opportunity, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by February 21, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by March 14, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by April 11, 2023.
Purpose: “EPSCoR RII Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows directly aligns with NSF EPSCoR strategic goal of establishing sustainable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professional development pathways that advance workforce development in STEM and effects engagement in STEM at national and global levels. EPSCoR RII Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation’s premier private, governmental, or academic research centers. The fellowship provides opportunities to establish strong collaborations through extended or periodic collaborative visits to a selected host site. Through collaborative research activities with the host site, Fellows will be able to learn new techniques, develop new collaborations, advance existing partnerships, benefit from access to unique equipment and facilities, and/or shift their research toward potentially transformative new directions. The experiences gained through the fellowships are intended to have lasting impacts that will enhance the Fellows’ research trajectories well beyond the award period. The benefits to the Fellows are also expected to improve the research capacity of their institutions and jurisdictions more broadly.”
Amount: Costs may not exceed $300,000
Funding Agency: State of Kansas: Kansas Department of Aging & Disability Services (KDADS)
Title: Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Workforce Training
Application Deadline: February 23, 2023
Purpose: “The State of Kansas is issuing grant opportunities for training providers to apply for funding for the training and professional development of Direct Service Workers (DSWs). These competency-based trainings will ensure that DSWs have the knowledge, skills and abilities to provide person-centered, quality support that at minimum meets the following requirements...”
Amount: To Be Determined (Bid Event)
Funding Agency: Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Title: Hillman Emergent Innovation
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due February 28, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 27, 2023
Purpose: “The Hillman Emergent Innovation (HEI) program provides grants to accelerate the development of bold, nursing-driven interventions that will improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations. These populations include Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), the economically disadvantaged, LGBTQ+ people, people experiencing homelessness, rural populations, immigrant and refugee populations and other groups that encounter barriers to receiving quality care.”
Amount: $50,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) Track
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one Research Partnership Track proposal, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by February 28, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by March 21, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by May 2, 2023.
Purpose: “The Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry, non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit technology transfer organizations or other universities. Such partnerships are needed to conduct use-inspired research on a stand-alone larger project toward commercialization and societal impact. In the absence of such synergistic partnership, the project’s likelihood for success would be minimal. The intended outcomes of both PFI-TT and PFI-RP tracks are: a) the commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research outputs; b) the creation of new or broader collaborations with industry (including increased corporate sponsored research); c) the licensing of NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up companies funded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future innovation and entrepreneurship leaders.” See below for the PFI-TT track opportunity due May 2, 2023.
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Funding Agency: Lesbian Health Fund (LHF), a program of GMLA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality
Title: Call for Research Proposals
Application Deadline: February 28, 2023
Purpose: “The LHF Grant Committee welcomes all proposals that identify or address health disparities among LGBTQ+ women and girls (e.g., sexual and/or gender minority women or girls, gender diverse people assigned female at birth).”
Amount: $5,000-$10,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: March 1, 2023
Purpose: “The All of Us Research Program within the Office of the Director (OD) encourages investigators to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs. This FOA is to use standard methods and approaches to analyze currently available data within the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench.”
Amount: The combined budget for the two-year project period may not exceed $200,000 in direct costs.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Enhancing the Use of the All of Us Research Program’s Data (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: March 1, 2023
Purpose: “The All of Us Research Program within the Office of the Director (OD) encourages investigators to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs. This FOA is to develop new methods, models, and tools and use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench. The new tools will be made broadly available to the scientific community.”
Amount: The combined budget for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000 in direct costs.
Funding Agency: The Teagle Foundation
Title: Request for Proposals: Education for American Civic Life
Application Deadlines: Concept Papers due March 1, 2023, August 1, 2023, and December 1, 2023
Purpose: “Through Education for American Civic Life, the Foundation seeks to elevate the civic objectives of liberal arts education by partnering with institutions offering bold and coherent initiatives that endow students with the content, skills, and sensibility to participate in a political system designed for self-governance. While progress has been made at many institutions of higher education to promote civic action and various forms of community service as part of the undergraduate experience, the Foundation is especially concerned with grounding such action and service in comprehensive civic knowledge through teaching, reading, debate, and discussion centered in the curriculum.”
Amount: $100,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) and Other Federal Agencies
Title: Analytics for Equity Initiative Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Application Deadline: March 3, 2023
Purpose: “NSF invites social, economic, and behavioral scientists to submit proposals to the Analytics for Equity Initiative. The Initiative seeks to leverage existing publicly available federal data, existing restricted-use data from federal statistical agencies, and other relevant existing publicly available data and scientific advances in researching equity-related topics for greater public benefit. It is designed to produce rigorous empirical research that federal agencies and other organizations can use to increase the impact of equity-focused evidence-based strategies.”
Amount: $75,000
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: International Space Station (ISS) Flight Opportunity
Application Deadline: March 6, 2023
Purpose: “The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announcement number NNH23ZHA010C. Specifically, a selected NASA EPSCoR International Space Station (ISS) flight project shall ‘perform scientific and/or technical research in areas that support NASA’s strategic research and technology development priorities. Proposals shall emphasize how a flight in microgravity will influence/improve the results/quality of any ground-based research’.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Neuroscience Collaborations Vision Statements Call
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due March 8, 2023; If invited, full applications due September 2023
Purpose: “The Simons Foundation seeks to create strong collaborations and foster the cross-pollination of ideas between investigators, as these interactions often lead to unexpected breakthroughs. Towards this end, in 2012 the foundation launched a new collaborative funding model, the Simons Collaborations, which funds groups of investigators — often from different disciplines — to work together on a timely and important problem. We now seek vision statements to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of neuroscience that are poised for high-impact funding by the Simons Foundation. We are interested in bold and cutting edge, idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of brain function that may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations. We will prioritize cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate many levels of analysis, methodologies, ways of thinking, and scientific communities. We endeavor to encourage conversations within and across fields while bringing together diverse groups of researchers to investigate important questions about the basic principles of brain function.”
Amount: $5,000,000-$12,000,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Preliminary Proposals due March 8, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 14, 2023
Purpose: “The IUCRC program provides a structure for academic researchers to conduct fundamental, pre-competitive research of shared interest to industry and government organizations. These organizations pay membership fees to a consortium so that they can collectively envision and fund research, with at least 90% of Member funds allocated to the direct costs of these shared research projects. IUCRCs are formed around research areas of strategic interest to U.S. industry. Industry is defined very broadly to include companies (large and small), startups and non-profit organizations. Principal Investigators form a Center around emerging research topics of current research interest, in a pre-competitive space but with clear pathways to applied research and commercial development. Industry partners join at inception, as an existing Center grows or they inspire the creation of a new Center by recruiting university partners to leverage NSF support. Government agencies participate in IUCRCs as Members or by partnering directly with NSF at the strategic level.”
Amount: $20,000-$150,000 per year depending on project type
Funding Agency: Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC)
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: March 13, 2023
Purpose: “Innovative Partnerships supports innovative programming between arts organizations and non-arts organizations to impact a variety of community and/or economic development goals. Arts organizations are encouraged to partner with other community entities (hospitals, prisons, etc.) to develop arts-centered programs that address community needs such as public health, transportation, tourism, unemployment, aging, corrections, etc. Re-imagined Spaces provides funding for communities to activate publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of artistic use and public programming. The program is designed to utilize artists, temporary creative interventions, and arts organizations to increase community vibrancy and provide space for artistic expression and public engagement. The Mural and Public Arts Projects program provides funding for communities to activate publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of artistic use and public programming. The program is designed to utilize artists, creative interventions, and arts organizations to increase community vibrancy and provide space for artistic expression and public engagement.”
Amount: Innovative Partnerships $20,000; Re-Imagined Spaces $10,000; Mural & Public Arts $10,000 – NOTE, all grants programs require cost match.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: March 15, 2023
Purpose: “Through this Dear Colleague Letter, NSF invites requests to fund conferences, symposia, and workshops (hereafter referred to as conferences) centered around one or more of the three primary themes of GRANTED: enhancing practices and processes within the research enterprise, strengthening the research enterprise workforce, and partnering with national and regional professional societies to translate effective practices into diverse institutional and organizational contexts. The proposed conferences should bring together a diverse array of stakeholders with the goal to convene, build, and energize communities to help shape future GRANTED funding opportunities and be better prepared to submit ambitious proposals in response to those calls. Proposals that focus on enhancing research support infrastructure at minority-serving institutions and/or emerging research institutions are strongly encouraged.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Project Management Institute
Title: 2023 PMI Young Researcher Award
Application Deadline: March 15, 2023
Purpose: “The PMI Young Researcher Award recognizes and celebrates an emerging leader in the academic field of project, program, and/or portfolio management with potential achievements to make a significant impact on the field and practice. Criteria include: 1) Nominee’s research contributes to the theory of project, program, and/or portfolio management. 2) This can be demonstrated through published works, particularly those subjected to peer-review; examples include journal articles, conference papers, books or book chapters, peer-reviewed keynote presentations, and invited contributions. 3) The nominee’s research is motivated by real problems, and contributes to the practice of project, program, and/or portfolio management. 4) A preference will be given to those candidates who demonstrate the successful application of research outcomes in practice, or contribution to knowledge through extraction of learning from practice.”
Amount: n/a
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Research Grants in the Arts
Application Deadline: March 27, 2023
Purpose: “Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.”
Amount: $20,000-$100,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: NEA Research Labs
Application Deadline: March 27, 2023
Purpose: “Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.”
Amount: $100,000-$150,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)
Application Deadline: March 30, 2023
Purpose: “The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to (1) facilitate inter-disciplinary or convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of behavioral science, computer science, economics, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences; (2) develop deeper understandings of how human needs can be met and values respected in regard to how new technologies, conditions, and work experiences are changing; (3) support deeper understanding of the societal infrastructure that accompanies and leads to new work technologies and new approaches to work and jobs, and that prepares people for the future world of work; (4) encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way workers learn and adapt to technological change, creative and inclusive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales; (5) promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad and diverse workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical, learning or cognitive impairment and other visible and invisible disabilities; and (6) understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks including inequity arising from future work at the human-technology frontier.”
Amount: Up $1,000,000 for Medium projects; $1,000,000-$2,000,000 for Large projects
Funding Agency: Whitehall Foundation
Title: Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due April 15, 2023 or October 1, 2023; If invited, full applications due September 1, 2023 or February 15, 2024, respectively).
Purpose: “The Whitehall Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that is focused exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate (excluding clinical) and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States. Investigations should specifically concern neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.”
Amount: Research Grants typically $100,000 per year; Grants-in-Aid are up to $30,000 for one year period only.
Funding Agency: Learning Disabilities Foundation of America
Title: Grant
Application Deadline: April 15, 2023
Purpose: “Applications must be for projects that conform to the mission of the Learning Disabilities Foundation of America by responding to an unmet need in the field of learning disabilities. Funds are granted for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes or for the identification, ongoing evaluation, education of and services for children and adults with learning disabilities.”
Amount: Not specified
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Application Deadline: May 10, 2023
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support resource projects to enable Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) communities to openly develop, extend, adapt, or refine data and metadata standards as well as associated tools to implement standards. The initiative is intended to catalyze community-driven standards development and related implementation in environmental health. Projects can support activities at any point in the data standards lifecycle and should build on existing resources, infrastructure, and partnerships whenever possible. The standards, software, best practices, or other tools developed should be broadly disseminated for adoption by the relevant biomedical communities.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $400,000 direct cost per year and should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) Track
Application Deadlines: May 2, 2023 and September 5, 2023
Purpose: “The Technology Translation (PFI-TT) track offers the opportunity to translate prior NSF-funded research results in any field of science or engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential and societal impact. PFI-TT supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any NSF-funded science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Concurrently, students and postdoctoral researchers who participate in PFI-TT projects receive education and leadership training in innovation and entrepreneurship. Successful PFI-TT projects generate technology-driven commercialization outcomes that address societal needs.”
Amount: Up to $550,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Application Deadline: June 13, 2023 and November 17, 2023
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite exploratory/developmental research grant applications (R21) for innovative informatics methods and algorithms to improve the acquisition, analysis, visualization, or interpretation of data across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two Track 1 proposals, one Track 2 proposal and one Track 3 proposal, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 1, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by June 15, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by November 15, 2023.
Purpose: “The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.”
Amount: Track 1: Greater than $100,000 and less than $1,400,000; Track 2: $1,400,000 - $4,000,000; Track 3: $100,000-$4,000,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2023
Archaeology and Archaeometry – Jul 3 and Dec 1, 2023
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2023
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) – proposals accepted anytime
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sep & Oct – varies based on discipline
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards –Aug 15, 2023
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (EHR:Core) – Oct 5, 2023
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP) – proposals accepted anytime
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 15, 2023
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics –Jul 17, 2023
Mathematical Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Jan 26 and Aug 31, 2023
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence – Feb 8 and Aug 2, 2023
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – proposals accepted anytime
Security and Preparedness –Aug 15, 2023
Smart & Connected Communities – proposals accepted anytime
Social Psychology – Jul 17, 2023
Sociology – proposals accepted anytime
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – Track 3 & 4 Letter of Intent due Sep 20, 2023; Track 1 & 2 proposals accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – Accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 8, 2023
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2023 for CMI, ECS and MSN; Sep 30, 2023 for CAT, CSDM-B, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – Accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Varies by topic
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – Accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Jan 23, 2023
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 15, 2023
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Mar 8, 2023 or Sep 13, 2023
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – Feb 7, 2023
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) – May 2, 2023
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 29, 2023
Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP) –Feb 16, 2023
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – TBD for 2023
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 11, 2023
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Biological Sciences (BIORETS) – Jul 31, 2023
EDUCATION / TRAINING
WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include an Introduction to the WSU Office of Research with resources and contacts, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding utilizing Pivot, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
WSU Office of Research Workshops on National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Proposals: January through August (or until the submission deadline).
A common first step in establishing an NSF research center is to demonstrate success with an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Site in the field of interest. REU Sites are also helpful in recruiting graduate students. NSF REU proposals are typically due in August or September. Vice Provost Coleen Pugh and any interested teams will coordinate and work on their proposals for submission in 2023 to separate divisions according to the following approximate schedule:
January: planning meeting, and discussion of budgets and target students
February: complete section on WSU institutional support of undergraduate research
March: complete section on departmental/unit/topical area of undergraduate research experiences/history
April: complete list of undergraduate researchers who have been mentored by Site faculty, and PI history of mentoring undergraduate researchers
May: complete section with proposed undergraduate research projects by Site faculty
June: complete section on training activities, including research/field-specific activities, professional development activities, industry/research field trips
July: complete section on coordinated social activities and housing for all WSU REU Sites
August: complete any remaining sections and polish proposals.
Email funding@wichita.edu to register for this NSF REU Workshop series.
NSF Webinar on New Funding Opportunity: NSF DOE/ABF Collaboration: January 25, 2023
“The Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (DOE BETO) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences in the Biological Sciences Directorate and Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems in the Engineering Directorate announce a collaborative funding opportunity, Accelerating Innovations in Biomanufacturing Approaches through Collaboration Between NSF and the DOE BETO funded Agile BioFoundry (NSF-DOE/ABF Collaboration). To help advance the U.S. bioeconomy, this funding opportunity will provide support for synthetic and engineering biology research projects that have the potential to leverage the unique capabilities at the Agile BioFoundry to further the development of the fundamental research towards eventual translation. The topical areas of interest should align with the broad interests of both NSF and DOE BETO.
Register for NSF-DOE/ABF Collaboration Webinar
Word Wizardry for Winning Proposals Webinar: January 25, 2023
“You won’t believe your eyes! This information-packed session will cover 15+ Microsoft Word Tips to help you craft professional, polished proposals. We will cover troubleshooting common issues in Word, finding inspiration by utilizing Word’s expanding array of visual elements, and diving into some lesser-known time-saving features. We will also touch on accessibility features in Word… and you might be surprised how some of these new accessibility features will open up a host of possibilities for all Word users.”
Register for Word Wizardry for Winning Proposals Webinar
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: January 26, 2022
Hanover Research offers a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on January 26, 2023 is titled “Finding Your NIH Research (R-Series) Grant.”
Register for Hanover Workshop on January 26, 2023
NSF Lecture: Future of Large-Scale Computing & Cyberinfrastructure in Advancing the National Innovation Ecosystem: January 31, 2023
“We are delighted to invite you to an informal “fireside chat” between Sethuraman Panchanathan, the NSF Director; Jack Dongarra, winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest honor awarded in computer science; and Dan Reed, Chair of the National Science Board. The chat focuses on the future of large-scale computing and cyberinfrastructure as a critical enabler of discoveries and innovation, and central to the Nation’s leadership in science and technology in the 21st century.”
PCORI 2023 & Beyond: Patient-Centered Research Funding and Engagement Opportunities: January 31, 2023
“Join Executive Director Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH, and other PCORI leaders for an information-rich webinar on Tuesday, January 31, to learn about our bold vision for 2023, funding opportunities, and how you can get involved with PCORI. During this live, 30-minute webinar, you will hear about initiatives and opportunities for patient-centered outcomes research, dissemination and implementation research, and engagement projects. You’ll also learn about ways to share your expertise and make your voice heard through public input on reports and projects, advisory panels, the Ambassador program, and our merit review program.”
Register for PCORI 2023 & Beyond webinar
REMINDER - Virtual NIH Grants Conference: February 1-2, 2023
It’s time to begin creating your NIH Grants Conference experience! “Who Should Attend? Research Administrators, Researchers, Grant Writers, PostDocs, Trainees, and others in the research community. Are you new to working with the NIH Grants Process? If so, these events are perfect for you! More experienced with the NIH? We’re providing valuable resources, contacts, and special events for you too!”
Register for 2023 NIH Grants Conference
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM Hub: 2022-2023 Grant Training Webinar Series: February 3, March 3, and April 7, 2023
The NSF HSI STEM Resource Hub Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 webinar series focuses on celebrating and learning from successful NSF HSI awardees. We host panels of successful PIs on specific topics that will engage our audience and support grant writing efforts for those planning a proposal submission. This webinar series focuses on a broad array of topics that promote student success, wellness and diversity and inclusion. Dr. Martha Desmond and Dr. Delia Valles are the hosts for this series. The HSI STEM Hub recommends participation in these webinars to learn from successful awardees, particularly if you are currently writing a proposal or are interested in writing a proposal to secure a grant. The February 3, 2023 topic is “Student Engagement and Professional Development Through Research and Internship Opportunities.”
Register for HSI STEM Hub Spring 2023 Grant Training Webinar Series
Environmental Protection Agency ECOTOX Knowledgebase Encore Training: February 7, 2023
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Ecotoxicology Knowledgebase (ECOTOX) is a comprehensive, publicly available tool providing environmental toxicity data on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. Specifically targeted for decision-makers, this virtual training will provide: 1) An overview of the database content and function, 2) Application-oriented use case demonstrations, and 3) Opportunities for participatory learning and engagement.”
Register for Session 1 (Presentation and Q&A) and Session 2 (Breakout Sessions)
WSU Information Security: Privacy & Security Training: February 14, 2023; 4:00-5:00pm in RSC Room 203 (Lancelot)
Gina Riggs and Mark Rodee offer WSU Privacy and Security Training monthly on the second Tuesday of every month. Learn how to prevent, detect and respond to information security and privacy concerns.
Email informationsecurity@wichita.edu with questions.
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) / Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR): Chief Scientist Distinguished Lecture Series Featuring Dr. Yann LeCun: February 15, 2023
“The Talk is Titled: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence. In this talk, we will discuss cognitive architecture for autonomous learning agents capable of planning and reasoning. The centerpiece of the architecture is a hierarchical world model, trained with self-supervised learning, with which the system can predict the consequences of its actions and plan sequences of actions to fulfill an objective. The world model uses a new type of deep learning architecture called H-JEPA (Hierarchical Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) which can perform predictions at multiple time scales and multiple levels of abstraction.”
Register for AFRL/AFOSR Distinguished Lecture: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU): Research and University Partnerships: 2023 ORAU Annual Council Meeting: March 6-7, 2023
ORAU’s 2023 Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions will be held March 6-7, 2023 and is focused on “Climate Security and Environmental Justice: Pathways to Achieving the 2050 Carbon Net-Zero Goal.” Experts and leaders from academia, federal agencies, and national organizations will share their views on technology innovation and transformation; science-based models for an environmentally equitable society; and future workforce development needs. The Annual Meeting is free to attend, and is open to faculty, students, and administration at ORAU member universities. Registration is required, but there is no limit on the number of attendees from each university.
Register for 2023 ORAU Annual Council Meeting
Hanover Grants Learning Center Available
WSU Faculty and Staff may now access course content through the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center by registering and using a referral code. Courses are designed for on-demand grantsmanship training.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to request the referral code to register for access to the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center.
Learn to Use BeoShock for your Advanced Research Computing Needs
Wichita State University continues to host Beoshock, a High-performance Computing Cluster (HPC). This HPC is available and free to faculty members, researchers and students engaged in course work or research activities. BeoShock runs the CentOS Linux operating system and features approximately 720 processor cores, two high memory compute nodes with 1.5 terabytes of memory, and four graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. BeoShock also has a variety of software tools that may be helpful in your research endeavors, such as Matlab, Mathematica, R, Python and many more.
Learn more about BeoShock High-Performance Computing and access the BeoShock High Performance Computing User Guides
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Office of Research EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT – Shane Coelho
A lifelong Wichitan, I am a graduate of WSU (BBA & MPA) and Washburn University (MBA). After a 13-year tenure in local and state government, I joined WSU in 2013, starting at the School of Nursing as Manager of Business and Fiscal Affairs. In July 2022, I joined the Office of Research as Research Grant Administrator in the Post Award Team.
Working at WSU is an opportunity to meet, work and share laughter with hundreds of individuals across campus and that why I truly love working here. In my personal time, I enjoy spending time with my family, if we are not driving our four boys all over Wichita going to any sporting events from basketball to baseball, on a rare occasion I go to dinner with my wife. I also enjoy reading John Grisham novels, attending Music Theatre Wichita shows, gardening as well as volunteering at WAAL Rescue as a foster parent to doggies that need a temporary home. Read more about the Office of Research staff…
Analytics for Equity Initiative, Led by National Science Foundation
The Analytics for Equity Initiative builds on the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act and E.O.13985 by piloting a new way to support social, economic, and behavioral sciences research that leverages federal data assets (ensuring privacy is protected and data are secure) and scientific advances in researching equity-related topics for greater public benefit. The goal of this effort is to fund researchers to produce rigorous empirical evidence and research in equity-related topics aligned to agency Learning Agendas that federal agencies and other organizations can use to increase the impact of equity-focused evidence-based strategies. See funding opportunities section of this newsletter for details on applying to the opportunity due March 3, 2023.
NSF Analytics for Equity Program Page
PCORI Virtual Office Hours: Partnering Research and Community Organizations for Novel Health Equity Research: Addressing Health Systems Factors and Social Determinants of Maternal Health Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement (Partner PFA)
In addition to emailing PCORI at pfa@pcori.org with questions about the Partner PFA, potential applicants can also request an opportunity to speak with PCORI staff for more complex questions during a virtual office hour. Not every question will require attending virtual office hours, as some may be answered by email. Letters of Intent for PCORI’s Partner PFA are due February 7, 2023.
Register for PCORI Virtual Office Hours
Additional CITI Program Course Available to WSU Researchers: “Community-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research”
An additional CITI Course has been added to the Wichita State University CITI Course Catalog, entitled “Community-Engaged and Community-Based Participatory Research.” The course is listed under Human Subjects Research (Question 3) when you select “Add a Course” upon logging into CITI.
Log into CITI Program using your myWSU ID
National Institutes of Health Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research
The purpose of this Notice is to highlight interest in research to improve understanding of the determinants of firearm injury, the identification of those at risk of firearm injury (including self- and other-directed, victims and perpetrators, accidental injury), the development, piloting, and testing of innovative interventions to prevent firearm injury and mortality, and the examination of approaches to improve the implementation of existing, evidence-based interventions to prevent firearm injury and mortality.
Read the NIH Notice of Special Interest: NOT-OD-23-039
Amazon Seeks Visiting Academics
Amazon has long had a productive partnership with the academic community. The Amazon Visiting Academics (AVA) program is aimed at pre-tenure to newly-tenured academics who seek to apply research methods to tackle complex technical challenges while continuing their university work. Amazon’s scale allows Visiting Academics the opportunity to dive deep and innovate.
Read more about Amazon Visiting Academics Program
REMINDER - Changes to WSU Indirect Cost Recovery Rates
Negotiations with the federal government on WSU’s new F&A (Facilities and Administration) rates, effective 1 July 2022, are almost complete. We anticipate the following significant changes to the Academic Affairs rates: On Campus Organized Research rate decreasing from the current 48% to a new rate of 40%, the On Campus Other Sponsored Activities rate decreasing from the current 30% to a new rate of 19% and the Off Campus Other Sponsored Activities rate decreasing from the current 26% to a new rate of 17%. We will announce the final rates as soon as they are negotiated. The new rates will impact your proposal and award budgets, as well as the distribution and availability of F&A funds used to support research activities on campus.
REMINDER - National Science Foundation Makes Changes to Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
NSF has made several changes to its Major Research Instrumentation Program. Applications for FY24 will now be due between October 15 and November 15, 2023. Thus, WSU is updating its internal competition dates for next year, and Notices of Intent to apply for the FY24 MRI program will be due to proposals@wichita.edu by May 1, 2023 at 12noon. Cost sharing is waived for the next five years, and the maximum allowed under Track 1 has increased to $1,400,000. Finally, the new Track 3 is specifically for proposal requests that “include the acquisition, development, installation, operation and maintenance of equipment and instrumentation to reduce consumption of helium.”
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program Page
REMINDER - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research Resources
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research Resources offers a variety of research-related resources. For example, you can watch an interactive video about Research Misconduct Case Studies, listen to NIH experts discuss International Collaborations, or read about finding the right fit for your research within Funding Opportunity Announcements. Don’t forget to sign up for the Virtual NIH Grants Conference coming up February 1-2, 2023.
Register for Free NIH Virtual Grants Conference
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Email funding@wichita.edu to:
- Set up a Pivot account and receive guidance on how to search the database to find funding opportunities;
- Subscribe to funding announcements and funding-related alerts; and
- Attend Research Workshops that will help you with finding funding, budgeting and writing effective proposals (and much more)!
Please let us know how we can help you.
Congratulations to those who received grants in January! Thanks to all of their talents and hard work, as of January 31, 2023, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted proposals budgeting a total of $50,449,216, received $26,308,639 in awards, and generated $2,203,881 in indirect cost recovery thus far for FY2023. However, the last number of IDC recovery will likely change after the new F&A rates have been finalized for an effective date of July 1, 2022, following negotiations with the federal governments, as described in the Announcements section.
This month’s newsletter provides an opportunity to get to know a little about Deneé Clifford as Senior Grants Specialist for Pre-Award in the Office of Research in Academic Affairs.
We wish you much success in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY PARTNERSHIPS TO INCREASE RURAL SCHOOL-BASED SERVICES (SPIRSS)
PI/Department: Angela Beeler, Dept of ISLE
Co-PI/Department: Heidi Cornell, School of Education | Kourtney Kromminga, Dept of ISLE
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $331,806
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND RETENTION PROCESS OF THE WICHITA POLICE DEPARTMENT
PI/Department: Michael Birzer, School of Criminal Justice
Sponsor: Wichita Police Department
Amount: $1,030
ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER WEST
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: University Enterprises Inc / Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $200,000
ASSESSMENT OF API FOR CPAAA
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Central Plains Area Agency on Aging
Amount: $10,000
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE AGREEMENT ANALYSIS
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Douglas County, Kansas
Amount: $41,500
LAWRENCE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SURVEY
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Lawrence
Amount: $11,250
AIR FORCE AF193-013: ENHANCED REFERENCE EMITTER (SBIR PHASE II)
PI/Department: Yanwu Ding, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. / Department of Defense
Amount: $50,000
USE VIRTUAL REALITY GAMES TO TRAIN SCOTOMA AWARENESS AND VISUAL SEARCH IN CENTRAL VISION LOSS
PI/Department: Quan Lei, Psychology
Sponsor: Kansas State University / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $14,140
MULTIFUNCTIONAL ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED CERAMICS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS
PI/Department: Leonard Miller, Aerospace Engineering
Co-PI/Department: Edward Adler, School of Art & Design | Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering | Wei Wei, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $750,000
THE KANSAS NASA EPSCOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (RID) PROGRAM
PI/Department: Leonard Miller, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $200,000
CONDITION-BASED MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE OF OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION LINES
PI/Department: Ehsan Salari, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
AMERICORPS KANSAS MINI-GRANT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas State Department of Education / Corp for National & Community Service
Amount: $1,935
CHWS FOR COVID RESPONSE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $335,102
COACHING CULTURE TRAINING PILOT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Children & Families
Amount: $4,792
KANSAS ESSENTIALS FOR CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE (KPOP)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $92,000
KDHE'S CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $10,000
PARENT PEER SUPPORT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION - AMENDMENT 1
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse - Mntl Health Service Adm
Amount: $5,000
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $39,899,209, OF WHICH $25,528,355 BELONGS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AVIATION RESEARCH (NIAR).
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized search please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit four proposals in response to this opportunity, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by February 21, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have bene chosen to proceed is March 14, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by April 11, 2023.
Purpose: “EPSCoR RII Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows directly aligns with NSF EPSCoR strategic goal of establishing sustainable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professional development pathways that advance workforce development in STEM and effects engagement in STEM at national and global levels. EPSCoR RII Track-4: EPSCoR Research Fellows provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation’s premier private, governmental, or academic research centers. The fellowship provides opportunities to establish strong collaborations through extended or periodic collaborative visits to a selected host site. Through collaborative research activities with the host site, Fellows will be able to learn new techniques, develop new collaborations, advance existing partnerships, benefit from access to unique equipment and facilities, and/or shift their research toward potentially transformative new directions. The experiences gained through the fellowships are intended to have lasting impacts that will enhance the Fellows’ research trajectories well beyond the award period. The benefits to the Fellows are also expected to improve the research capacity of their institutions and jurisdictions more broadly.”
Amount: Costs may not exceed $300,000
Funding Agency: Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Title: Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due February 28, 2023; If invited, full applications due May 30, 2023
Purpose: “Accelerates the development of bold, early stage (untested or minimal evidence) interventions focused on serious illness and end of life care.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Title: New Century Scholars Research Grant
Application Deadline: Intent to Submit Form due March 1, 2023; Full Proposals due April 19, 2023
Purpose: “The New Century Scholars Research Grant is designed to advance knowledge, tools, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Title: Esther Katz Rosen Fund Grants
Application Deadline: March 1, 2023
Purpose: “Rosen Fund grants enable and enhance development of identified gifted and talented children and adolescents and encourage promising psychologists to continue innovative research and programs in this area.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: Melanoma Research Foundation
Title: 2023 Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: March 1, 2023
Purpose: “The Melanoma Research Foundation (MRF) is committed to advancing research across the spectrum of melanoma – from prevention through diagnosis, staging, treatment and survivorship.”
Amount: Up to $250,000 depending on project type
Funding Agency: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Title: History of Art Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due March 1, September 1, and December 15, 2023; If invited, full applications due April 1, 2023, October 1, 2023 and January 15, 2024
Purpose: “The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. Grants are also awarded for activities that permit art historians to share their expertise through international exchanges, professional meetings, conferences, symposia, consultations, the presentation of research, and other professional events.”
Amount: Varies, see website for previous grant awards.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Title: Rural Innovation Stronger Economies (RISE)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one proposal in response to this opportunity, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by March 2, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is March 23, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by April 20, 2023.
Purpose: “Selected applicants will use Agency grant funds to provide financial assistance in support of innovation centers and job accelerator programs that improve the ability of distressed rural communities to create high wage jobs, accelerate the formation of new businesses, and help rural communities identify and maximize local assets.”
Amount: $500,000-$2,000,000; Cost match is required
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Research and Analysis Services for the NEA
Application Deadline: March 3, 2023
Purpose: “This is a competitive 5-year, Blanket Purchase Agreement, Request for Proposal to provide research, data science, evaluation, and communication services for the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis.”
Amount: To Be Determined
REMINDER - Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: International Space Station (ISS) Flight Opportunity
Application Deadline: March 6, 2023
Purpose: “The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announcement number NNH23ZHA010C. Specifically, a selected NASA EPSCoR International Space Station (ISS) flight project shall ‘perform scientific and/or technical research in areas that support NASA’s strategic research and technology development priorities. Proposals shall emphasize how a flight in microgravity will influence/improve the results/quality of any ground-based research’.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE): Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO)
Title: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) Pilot Demonstrations
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due March 8, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 16, 2023
Purpose: The DOE “GTO's EGS program actively pursues research, development, and demonstration projects to facilitate technology validation and demonstration, reduce cost, and improve performance of EGS. The economic viability of EGS depends on developing and improving enabling technologies and detailed understanding of the subsurface, including geologic qualities, permeability, and other attributes.”
Amount: $5,000,000 - $25,000,000; Note, cost match of 20% is required.
Funding Agency: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s National Paralysis Resource Center
Title: Direct Effect Quality of Life Grant
Application Deadline: March 8, 2023
Purpose: “Grants fund programs and projects that will clearly impact individuals living with paralysis and their families.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Title: 2023 Seeding Solutions Request for Applications
Application Deadlines: Pre-applications due March 8, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 28, 2023
Purpose: “Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Challenge Areas or AgMission.”
Amount: $300,000-$1,000,000; Note, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Title: Unsolicited Grant Opportunities
Application Deadline: March 9, 2023
Purpose: “The IES will consider unsolicited applications for research, evaluation, and statistics projects that would make significant contributions to the mission of the organization. Our mission is to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of education and to provide parents, education leaders and practitioners, researchers, and the general public with unbiased, reliable, and useful information about the condition and progress of education in the United States; about education policies, programs, and practices that support learning, improve academic achievement, and increase access to education opportunities for all students; and about the effectiveness of Federal and other education programs.”
Amount: Award amounts depend on the scope of the proposed work. Over the last 5 years, the average total award was approximately $300,000, with a typical performance period lasting 1 to 3 years.
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Partnership Development Grant (PDG)
Application Deadline: March 10, 2023
Purpose: “With support from NASA and the Kansas Board of Regents - the Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is preparing to award Partnership Development Grants (PDG) to Kansas investigators, under the KNEP Research Infrastructure Development (RID) program. These grants are intended to facilitate the development of beneficial and promising NASA collaborations. The PDG recipient is expected to initiate, develop, and formalize a meaningful professional relationship with a NASA researcher. Given this expectation, it is vital investigators and students travel to a NASA center if selected for an award.”
Amount: $19,272 with $2,756 in match required
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Seed Research Initiation (SRI)
Application Deadline: March 10, 2023
Purpose: “With support from NASA and the Kansas Board of Regents - the Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) anticipates awarding a Seed Research Initiation (SRI) grant under the KNEP Research Infrastructure Development (RID) program. SRI grants are designed to assist investigators in starting research projects having a high probability for sustained growth and value to NASA and Kansas.”
Amount: $168,265 with $24,062 in match required
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society (ACS): Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
Title: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Grants
Application Deadline: March 10, 2023
Purpose: “Proposals must be for fundamental research in “the petroleum field,” which is defined in our founding document as “petroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.” Fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes “applied research,” which is outside the scope of ACS PRF. However, please note that while the PRF Trust imposes certain restrictions, PRF currently funds many topics of current interest in sustainability and green chemistry.” These include, for example, new catalysts and upgrading/utilization of methane and carbon dioxide.
Amount: $125,000 for New Directions; $110,000 for Doctoral New Investigators; $70,000 for Undergraduate Research; $55,000 for Undergraduate New Investigators in direct costs
Funding Agency: Prostate Cancer Foundation
Title: 2023 PCF Challenge Awards
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 10, 2023; If invited, full applications due May 15, 2023
Purpose: “The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is pleased to announce a Request for Team Science Applications for PCF Challenge Awards for investigations of metastatic, lethal prostate cancer. These awards will be funded depending on the level of innovation in applications received. PCF seeks high-risk, currently unfunded projects from academic institutions around the world.”
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Funding Agency: Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC)
Title: Grants
Application Deadlines: For Innovative Partnerships and Re-Imaged Spaces, initial applications are accepted now; If invited, full applications will be due March 13, 2023. For Mural & Public Art Application, applications are due March 13, 2023.
Purpose: “Innovative Partnerships supports innovative programming between arts organizations and non-arts organizations to impact a variety of community and/or economic development goals. Arts organizations are encouraged to partner with other community entities (hospitals, prisons, etc.) to develop arts-centered programs that address community needs such as public health, transportation, tourism, unemployment, aging, corrections, etc. Re-imagined Spaces provides funding for communities to activate publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of artistic use and public programming. The program is designed to utilize artists, temporary creative interventions, and arts organizations to increase community vibrancy and provide space for artistic expression and public engagement. The Mural and Public Arts Projects program provides funding for communities to activate publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of artistic use and public programming. The program is designed to utilize artists, creative interventions, and arts organizations to increase community vibrancy and provide space for artistic expression and public engagement.”
Amount: Innovative Partnerships $20,000; Re-Imagined Spaces $10,000; Mural & Public Art Application $10,000 – NOTE, all grant programs require cost match.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one proposal in response to this opportunity as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by March 14, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is April 4, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by May 9, 2023.
Purpose: “NSF seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries made while conducting academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. This is the primary aim of the Accelerating Research Translation program. Specifically, the primary goals of this program are to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education 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.”
Amount: $6,000,000
Funding Agency: AARP
Title: 2023 Community Challenge
Application Deadline: March 15, 2023
Purpose: “The AARP Community Challenge provides small grants to fund quick-action projects that can help communities become more livable for people of all ages.”
Amount: $30,000-$50,000 for Demonstration Grants; $2,500 for Capacity-Building Microgrants; $500-$50,000 for Flagship Grants
Funding Agency: The Eppley Foundation for Research
Title: Advanced Scientific Research Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due March 15, or September 15, 2023; If invited, full applications due April 15 or October 15, respectively.
Purpose: “The Eppley Foundation for Research was incorporated in 1947 for the purpose of “increasing knowledge in pure or applied science…in chemistry, physics and biology through study, research and publication.” The Foundation does not support work in the social sciences, education or computer science, and only rarely funds research into diseases that have considerable financial support available, such as AIDS, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad.”
Amount: The Eppley Foundation for Research is a small, family foundation that disburses up to $460,000 a year. Review website for recent past grants and amounts.
Funding Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due March 16, 2023
Purpose: “Through this Call for Letters of Inquiry, the Sloan Foundation is focused on advancing historical scholarship on the practices and institutions of natural and social science, engineering, and technology in order to better understand and strengthen the research enterprise.”
Amount: $250,000 for Faculty-led Research Projects; $75,000 for Dissertation Improvement and Completion Projects
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: March 17, 2023
Purpose: “This NIH Research Career Enhancement Award (K18) program invites applications from experienced investigators seeking to redirect or expand their research programs through the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in the area of firearm mortality and injury prevention research, which is beyond and complementary to their current areas of expertise.”
Amount: NIH will contribute $50,000 per year toward the research development costs of the award recipient, which must be justified and consistent with the stage of development of the candidate and the proportion of time to be spent in research or career development activities.
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Title: Reducing Agricultural Carbon Intensity and Protecting Algal Crops (RACIPAC)
Application Deadline: Mandatory Concept Papers due March 20, 2023
Purpose: “The Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) Renewable Carbon Resources (RCR) program develops science-based strategies and technologies to cost-effectively transform renewable carbon resources such as agricultural waste and algae into high-quality, environmentally sustainable, conversion-ready feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), through two distinct topic areas – the first focused on climate-smart agricultural practices and the second on algae crop protection – supports BETO’s RCR Program’s strategies for the development of conversion-ready feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts and supports the Biden Administration’s goal to produce sustainable aviation fuels.”
Amount: $1,000,000 -$5,000,000 depending on topic
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: March 24 and October 10, 2023
Purpose: “This initiative will support intervention research that addresses structural racism and discrimination (SRD) in order to improve minority health or reduce health disparities.”
Amount: $500,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: American-Made Net Load Forecasting Prize
Application Deadlines: March 27, 2023
Purpose: “The American-Made Net Load Forecasting Prize is open to forecasting industry organizations that cater to utilities, system operators, and power plant owners, as well as academic teams with machine learning capabilities that are interested in forecasting. Competitors are required to submit daily day-ahead probabilistic net load forecasts, with an hourly resolution, over the course of four weeks and across multiple distinct climatic locations in the United States. The Solar Forecast Arbiter will be used to evaluate how well each competitor’s forecasts performed compared to a benchmark forecast.”
Amount: Up to $600,000 in cash prizes
Funding Agency: Kansas State Department of Education
Title: 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Title IV-B)
Application Deadline: March 28, 2023
Purpose: “The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are funded by federal dollars under Title IV-B. The 21st CCLC programs are intended to create community learning centers that provide academic and enrichment opportunities for children outside of the regular school day. In order to qualify for 21st CCLC funds, grantees must meet the following absolute priority: The grant will primarily serve students who attend schools eligible for Title I Schoolwide programs. Title I Schoolwide designation typically means that at least 40% of the students qualify to receive free or reduced-cost meals.”
Amount: $50,000 per year
Funding Agency: Sedgwick County
Application Deadline: March 28, 2023
Purpose: “Sedgwick County, Kansas is seeking a firm or firms to provide a Fire Records Management System and Electronic Patient Care Reporting solution. The following objectives have been identified for this contract: 1. Acquire a software solution meeting the parameters, conditions, and mandatory requirements, 2. Establish contract pricing for maintenance, support, and professional service hours with the vendor that has the best proven “track-record” in performance, service, and customer satisfaction, and 3. Acquire a solution with the most advantageous overall cost to the county.”
Amount: To Be Determined
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation
Title: Visionary Grants
Application Deadline: April 1, 2023
Purpose: “The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems.”
Amount: $20,000
Funding Agency: American Cancer Society
Title: Research Scholar Grants
Application Deadlines: April 1 and October 15, 2023
Purpose: “Research Scholar Grants (RSG) provide support for independent, self-directed researchers and clinician scientists, who are investigators licensed to provide patient care and trained to conduct research. Applicants' institutions must provide space and other resources customary for independent investigators. Grant proposals are investigator-initiated and may pursue questions across the cancer research continuum, as long as they fit within an American Cancer Society (ACS) priority research area.”
Amount: $165,000/year in direct costs for most awards; Up to $200,000/year in direct costs for multilevel studies on Cancer Health Equity
Funding Agency: Scripps Howard Fund
Title: Journalism Grants
Application Deadline: April 1, 2023
Purpose: “The Fund is now accepting proposals from universities or nonprofit organizations to create a program to teach college students open-source investigative journalism, a way to use publicly available information to investigate.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: Brady Education Foundation
Title: Proposals for Program Evaluations
Application Deadline: Stage 1 Proposals due April 1, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 15, 2023
Purpose: “The Foundation is currently accepting Research Project proposals and Existing Program Evaluation proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.”
Amount: Varies; see funder website
Funding Agency: Kansas Suffragist Memorial Committee
Title: Request for Qualifications
Application Deadline: April 1, 2023 (Deadline extended)
Purpose: “The Kansas Suffragist Memorial Committee is seeking professional artists or artist teams to develop innovative, original art to be incorporated as part of the new display at the Kansas State Capitol building. A dedicated website is under construction and will be up soon.at: kssuffragist.org. Interested artists should submit the following via email by April 1, 2023: A letter of interest, a brief professional resume/CV and an annotated image list.” Please email proposals@wichita.edu for more details.
Amount: Small stipend to cover partial costs for the artist’s proposal
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Engagement Awards
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due April 3, 2023; If invited, full applications due July 10, 2023
Purpose: “The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program, named in honor of the first chair of PCORI’s Board of Governors, is intended to bring more patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders into the research process. The goal is to support projects that will build a community better able to participate in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR)/comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) and serve as channels to disseminate study results. This is central to our mission to fund useful CER that will help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions.”
Amount: $250,000 for Dissemination Initiatives or Capacity Building; $100,000 for Stakeholder Convening Support
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Education: Small
Application Deadline: April 5, 2023
Purpose: “The Small Research Grants 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.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title: Healthy Eating Research
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due April 5, 2023; If invited, full applications due July 12, 2023
Purpose: “Healthy Eating Research (HER) is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) committed to building a Culture of Health through identifying effective strategies to improve children’s nutrition and weight. HER’s mission is to support and disseminate research on policy, systems, and environmental strategies that promote healthy eating among children and advance nutrition security and health equity. Some goals of the program are to: build a vibrant, inclusive, interdisciplinary research base in the areas of healthy food access, nutrition security, diet quality, and healthy weight; and communicate research findings to accelerate policy, systems, and environmental changes.”
Amount: Up to $275,000
Funding Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Title: FY 2023 Arts Programs for Justice-Involved Youth
Application Deadline: April 6, 2023
Purpose: “With this solicitation, OJJDP seeks to support high-quality arts programs for justice-involved youth to reduce juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and/or other problem and high-risk behaviors. This project seeks to support and strengthen collaborations between arts-based organizations and juvenile justice systems to develop, expand, or enhance effective interventions, which may involve emphasizing the unique capability of the art interventions to enhance protective factors and reduce risk factors that lead to justice system involvement, including individual characteristics, social influences, and community conditions.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Application Deadline: April 10, 2023
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for investigator-initiated research examining how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy interventions at any point during the administration of justice.”
Amount: TBD
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Title: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)
Application Deadline: April 11, 2023
Purpose: “CDC announces the availability of fiscal year 2023 funds to implement CDC-RFA-DP23-2314: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH). This 5-year program is to improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk, or burden, of chronic disease, specifically for African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives by: 1) Supporting culturally tailored interventions to address to promote activities to decrease tobacco use, poor nutrition practices, and physical inactivity, 2) Supporting implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of practice- and evidence-based strategies of tobacco, nutrition, and physical activity collaborations that ultimately lead to reduced health disparities in chronic conditions of hypertension, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity, 3) Supporting activities to enhance capacity to educate and promote the importance of immunization among racial and ethnic minority populations, and 4) Linking community and clinical efforts to increase individual's access to health care and preventive care programs within their community. ”
Amount: $500,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: April 12, 2023
Purpose: “The purpose of the NIH Research Conference Grant (R13) is to support high quality conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific mission of the participating Institutes and Centers.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. The appropriate NIH Conference Grant Contact should be consulted for guidance regarding any Institute/Center-specific budget limitations.
Funding Agency: Project Management Institute (PMI)
Title: Sponsored Research Funding
Application Deadline: April 13, 2023
Purpose: “PMI research grants support new academic research with the intent to advance knowledge in project, program and portfolio management. We invite proposals from scholars both within and outside the field of project management, and/or its sub-fields, whose themes and perspectives have direct application to some aspect of the project management body of knowledge or its practice. While this is an open call for research in the field of project management, special consideration will be given to proposals that address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) and Sustainability topics.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime
Application Deadline: April 13, 2023
Purpose: “In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in three topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that provide services for victims of crime; 2) research on supporting victims of community violence; and 3) financial costs of crime victimization. Applicants must submit proposals that address one of the three topic areas.”
Amount: Maximum dollar amount for each award to be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award. Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed, up to the full dollar amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation ($3,000,000).
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
Application Deadline: April 13, 2023
Purpose: “With this solicitation, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: 1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults (age 60 years or above); 2) research on individuals who abuse older adults; 3) research on poly-victimization in older adults; and 4) research on fraud and financial exploitation of older adults.”
Amount: Maximum dollar amount for each award to be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award. Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed, up to the full dollar amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation ($1,500,000).
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)
Application Deadline: April 14, 2023
Purpose: “The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Program supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.”
Amount: $1,000,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Application Deadline: April 14, 2023
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites Planning Grant applications that conceptualize the design and implementation of a future national, interdisciplinary, patient-centered research collaborative that will advance Temporomandibular Disorders (TMDs) basic and clinical research, research training, and translation to evidence-based treatments and improved clinical care. The planning grants are intended to enable institutions to develop partnerships, infrastructure, and capabilities needed to address the major goals of a future Collaborative and develop a Collaborative-wide research framework and strategies to support coordination among studies, research projects, and sites, and thereby enhance competitiveness for future participation in TMD Collaborative for Improving Patient-Centered Translational Research (TMD IMPACT).”
Amount: $200,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: Department of the Interior: National Park Service
Title: Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program
Application Deadline: April 14, 2023
Purpose: “The program provides cost-share grants for the preservation of the most significant and representative building, structures, road segments, and cultural landscapes along the length of the Route 66 corridor, covering Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Cost-share grants are also available for planning, research and educational initiatives related to the preservation of Route 66. The funding and technical assistance provided by the program empowers and leverages the public to preserve and commemorate the special places and stories of this important era of American history.”
Amount: $5,000-$30,000; Cost match is required.
Funding Agency: Department of Health & Human Services: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Application Deadline: April 18, 2023
Purpose: “The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program is a national, evidence-based program that funds diverse organizations working to reach adolescents to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and promote positive youth development. The Office of Population Affairs anticipates FY2023 funds being available to support cooperative agreements for organizations to advance health equity for adolescents, their family, and communities through the replication and scaling of medically accurate and age appropriate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors.”
Amount: $350,000-$2,000,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Future Manufacturing (FM)
Application Deadline: April 19, 2023
Purpose: “The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research and education of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Future Manufacturing imagines manufacturing decades into the future. It supports research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for established companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse STEM workforce, and by reducing the impact of manufacturing on the environment. At the same time, Future Manufacturing enables new manufacturing that will address urgent social challenges arising from climate change, global pandemics and health disparities, social and economic divides, infrastructure deficits of marginalized populations and communities, and environmental sustainability.”
Amount: $3,000,000 for Research Grants and $500,000 for Seed Grants
Funding Agency: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Title: Recordings at Risk
Application Deadline: April 19, 2023
Purpose: “Recordings at Risk is a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio, audiovisual, and other time-based media of high scholarly value through digital reformatting.”
Amount: $10,000-$50,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
Application Deadline: April 19, 2023
Purpose: “The intent of this program is to direct the findings of basic scientific research; foster research and development in broader scientific fields applicable to forensic science; and support ongoing forensic science research toward the development of highly-discriminating, accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and rapid methods for the identification, analysis, and interpretation of forensic evidence for criminal justice purposes. Projects should address the challenges and needs of the forensic science community.”
Amount: NIJ funding for an individual research or development project rarely exceeds $500,000 annually. In FY 2022, the average forensic science research and development award was approximately $206,451 per year.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: FY23 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings
Application Deadline: April 20, 2023
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding of research and program evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and mass shootings in the United States in two categories: (1) research or evaluation of Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws, otherwise known as "Red Flag Laws" and (2) research on the sources of the firearm used in the commission of a crime and the relationship of those sources to shootings and gun-related violence.”
Amount: $9,000,000 is available in total for up to twelve awards
Funding Agency: Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships
Application Deadline: April 21, 2023
Purpose: “The technical assistance activities to be funded under this Funding Opportunity Announcement will support DOE’s industrial decarbonization strategy by establishing a regional network of Technical Assistance Partnerships to help industrial facilities and other large energy users increase the adoption of onsite energy technologies. Clean onsite energy generation and storage technologies provide a practical alternative to conventional fossil-fuel systems and grid electricity for facilities to directly produce flexible, reliable, and affordable heat and electricity to reduce emissions across the industrial sector.”
Amount: $900,000-$1,500,000 for Regional Partnerships
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Future of Semiconductors (FuSe)
Application Deadline: April 24, 2023
Purpose: “The goal of this solicitation is to cultivate a broad coalition of researchers and educators from across science and engineering communities that utilizes a holistic, co-design approach to fundamental research and workforce education and training, to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies. The future of semiconductor manufacturing will require the design and deployment of diverse new technologies in materials, chemical and materials processes, devices, and architectures through the development of application-driven systems. Partnerships between industry and academic institutions are essential to spur innovation and technology transfer, to inform the research needs, and to train the future workforce.”
Amount: $2,000,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Application Deadline: April 24, 2023
Purpose: “In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), NIJ seeks to build upon its research and evaluation efforts to better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking in persons in the United States. Applicants should propose research and evaluation projects that — first and foremost — have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States.”
Amount: Maximum dollar amount for each award to be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award. Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed, up to the full dollar amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation ($2,000,000).
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women
Application Deadline: April 26, 2023
Purpose: “NIJ strives to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women, promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses. For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics, including the crimes of domestic and family violence, homicide and other forms of violent death, intimate partner violence, rape, sex trafficking, sexual assault, stalking, and teen dating violence, also known as adolescent relationship abuse, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies.”
Amount: Maximum dollar amount for each award to be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award. Applicants are encouraged to propose budgets that match the research activities proposed, up to the full dollar amount anticipated to be awarded under this solicitation ($2,300,000).
Funding Agency: Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Title: The Mercury Project: 2023 Call for Proposals
Application Deadline: May 1, 2023
Purpose: “Mercury Project now invites proposals to evaluate the causal impacts of online or offline interventions designed to increase demand for vaccinations consistent with national priorities, including childhood vaccines, HPV, polio, measles, and Covid-19 vaccinations, in low- and lower-middle income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Amount: Proposed budgets should be appropriate to cover project costs.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two Track 1 proposals, one Track 2 proposal and one Track 3 proposal, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 1, 2023 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is June 15, 2023. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by November 15, 2023.
Purpose: “The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific / engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.”
Amount: Track 1: Greater than $100,000 and less than $1,400,000; Track 2: $1,400,000 - $4,000,000; Track 3: $100,000-$4,000,000
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Application Deadline: May 3, 2023
Purpose: “This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.” Note, an informational webinar will be held on February 23, 2023.
Amount: $100,000-$600,000 for Major Research Grants; $25,000-$50,000 for Officer Research Grants
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Application Deadlines: Earliest Letter of Intent due date is May 4, 2023 but varies by program topic. Most topics do NOT require a Letter of Intent and have full proposal due dates in August, September, October or November 2023. Note, the Environmental Justice topic has a letter of intent due date of June 15, 2023. Conference Proposals all have a Letter of Intent due date a minimum of 150 days before the conference begins.
Purpose: “The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Research-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education and/or extension projects are solicited in this Request for Applications (RFA).”
Amount: Varies by topic (40 topic areas are available under this opportunity).
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
Application Deadline: May 9, 2023
Purpose: “Humanities Initiatives strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new or enhancing existing programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present. Projects must address a core topic or set of themes drawn from humanities areas such as history, philosophy, religion, literature, or humanities-informed composition and writing skills.” Optional drafts are due March 21, 2023.
Amount: $150,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: May 10, 2023
Purpose: “This solicitation launches an ambitious new program to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers that will apply best practices of broadening participation and community engagement to develop use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy. This program will prioritize research collaborations fostering team science, community-engaged research, and use knowledge-to-action frameworks. The proposed research work should maximize the benefits of international, interdisciplinary collaborations.”
Amount: $5,000,000 for Track-1 Implementation; $250,000 for Track-2 Design
Funding Agency: Social Security Administration (SSA): Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
Title: Retirement and Disability Research Consortium
Application Deadline: May 12, 2023; Optional Letters of Intent are requested by April 21, 2023.
Purpose: “A announces the solicitation of competitive applications for cooperative agreements to establish a Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC). SSA seeks applications in support of the RDRC that will continue to serve as a national resource fostering high quality research on matters related to retirement and disability policy. The RDRC may consist of one or more research “centers.”
Amount: Applicants must include detailed budget estimates for the first year, assuming a funding level of up to $4.75 million. The amount of funds available for the cooperative agreement in future years has not been established.
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Racial Equity Research Grants
Application Deadlines: Intent to Apply Form due May 16, 2023; If invited, full applications due June 14, 2023
Purpose: “The Racial Equity Research Grants program supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education. We are interested in funding studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of inequality in education, and which seek to (re)imagine and make new forms of equitable education. Thus, we are interested in research projects that seek to envision educational opportunities in a multiplicity of education systems, levels, settings, and developmental ranges and that reach beyond documenting conditions and paradigms that contribute to persistent racial inequalities.”
Amount: $75,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: AHRQ Small Research Projects to Advance the Science of Primary Care (RO3)
Application Deadlines: June 16, and October 16, 2023
Purpose: “The AHRQ Small Research Grant Program supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. This NOFO aims to support small research projects that advance the understanding of the role and capacity of primary care to increase the value and quality of care and improve patient outcomes and population health by delivering person-centered care.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Application Deadlines: June 16, and October 16, 2023
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports pilot work for subsequent studies testing the effectiveness of strategies to deliver evidence-based mental health services, treatment interventions, and/or preventive interventions (EBPs) in low-resourced mental health specialty and non-specialty settings within the United States. The FOA targets settings where EBPs are not currently delivered or delivered with fidelity, such that there are disparities in mental health and related functional outcomes (e.g., employment, educational attainment, stable housing, integration in the community, treatment of comorbid substance use disorders) for the population(s) served. Implementation strategies should identify and use innovative approaches to remediate barriers to provision, receipt, and/or benefit from EBPs and generate new information about factors integral to achieving equity in mental health outcomes for underserved populations.”
Amount: $450,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Title: NIMHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadlines: June 16, and October 16, 2023
Purpose: “NIMHD invites applications to support short-term exploratory or developmental research projects that have the potential to break new ground in the fields of minority health and/or health disparities or extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications that can directly contribute to improving minority health and/or reducing health disparities in the U.S.”
Amount: $275,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: ORAU
Title: Innovation Partnerships Grant Program
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “ORAU Events Sponsorship Grant Program has now been restructured and is now called the ORAU Innovation Partnerships Grant Program. The goal of this grant program change is to drive new opportunities for university consortium members and ORAU experts to formulate meaningful collaborations. The program will focus on research and education topics that align well with ORAU’s expertise and current research priorities (Climate & Environment, Health Equity, and Future of the STEM Workforce.)”
Amount: $4,000
Funding Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Title: Energy and Environment Program
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Letters of Inquiry accepted anytime
Purpose: “The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment program looks to achieve its mission by supporting research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts in this domain that shape the direction of scholarship by investigating under-explored questions that warrant further attention, advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the social and natural sciences, involve early career faculty and train the next generation of students, link research with practice, and partner with other funders to amplify programmatic impact. The program’s predominant geographic focus is the United States.”
Amount: See website for examples of previous grant awards.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2023
Archaeology and Archaeometry – Jul 3 and Dec 1, 2023
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2023
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) – proposals accepted anytime
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sep & Oct – varies based on discipline
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards –Aug 15, 2023
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (EHR:Core) – Oct 5, 2023
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP) – proposals accepted anytime
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 15, 2023
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics –Jul 17, 2023
Manufacturing Systems Integration - proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 31, 2023
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence –Aug 2, 2023
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – proposals accepted anytime
Security and Preparedness –Aug 15, 2023
Smart & Connected Communities – proposals accepted anytime until April 1, 2024
Social Psychology – Jul 17, 2023
Sociology – proposals accepted anytime
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – Track 3 & 4 Letter of Intent due Sep 20, 2023; Track 1 & 2 proposals accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – Accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 14, 2024
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2023 for CMI, ECS and MSN; Sep 30, 2023 for CAT, CSDM-B, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – Accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Varies by topic
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – Accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Jan 22, 2024
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 15, 2023
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Mar 8, 2023 or Sep 13, 2023
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program –Aug 1, 2023
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 29, 2023
Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP) –Jan 18, 2024
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – TBD for 2023
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 11, 2023
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Biological Sciences (BIORETS) – Jul 31, 2023
EDUCATION / TRAINING
WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include an Introduction to the WSU Office of Research with resources and contacts, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding utilizing Pivot, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
WSU Office of Research Workshops on National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Proposals: January through August (or until the submission deadline).
A common first step in establishing an NSF research center is to demonstrate success with an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Site in the field of interest. REU Sites are also helpful in recruiting graduate students. NSF REU proposals are typically due in August or September. Vice Provost Coleen Pugh and any interested teams will coordinate and work on their proposals for submission in 2023 to separate divisions according to the following approximate schedule:
January: planning meeting, and discussion of budgets and target students
February: complete section on WSU institutional support of undergraduate research
March: complete section on departmental/unit/topical area of undergraduate research experiences/history
April: complete list of undergraduate researchers who have been mentored by Site faculty, and PI history of mentoring undergraduate researchers
May: complete section with proposed undergraduate research projects by Site faculty
June: complete section on training activities, including research/field-specific activities, professional development activities, industry/research field trips
July: complete section on coordinated social activities and housing for all WSU REU Sites
August: complete any remaining sections and polish proposals.
Email funding@wichita.edu to register for this NSF REU Workshop series.
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: February 23, 2023
Hanover Research offers a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on February 23, 2023 is titled “NSF CAREER: Educational Opportunities and Broader Impacts.”
Register for Hanover Workshop on February 23, 2023
National Science Foundation (NSF) Future of Semiconductors Program Webinar: February 23, 2023
“NSF program directors will host a webinar about the NSF Future of Semiconductors (FuSe) program solicitation (23-552) on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at 1:00 PM Eastern. The goal of the FuSe program is to cultivate a broad coalition of researchers from across science and engineering communities to utilize a holistic, co-design approach to fundamental research and education and training, to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies.”
NSF FuSe Program Solicitation Webinar
National Science Foundation: 2023 Research Infrastructure Project Management Webinar Series: February 28-April 25, 2023
“Join the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Large Facilities Office for the 2023 Research Infrastructure Project Management Webinar Series. We kick off 2023 with a series of three, 90-minute webinars that will focus on developing basic knowledge and skills on project management methods applied to planning and performance management of mid-scale RI projects consistent with NSF’s Research Infrastructure Guide. The webinar content will be especially valuable to individuals and institutions interested in submitting proposals to NSF’s Mid-scale RI-1 and RI-2 programs, as well as current Mid-Scale RI awardees, and all others wishing to add to their project management knowledge.”
NSF Research Infrastructure Project Management Webinars
National Academies Workshop: Education, Training and Workforce Needs for Smart Manufacturing: February 28, 2023
“This workshop will identify challenges and opportunities for advanced training in
smart manufacturing. Participants will examine best practices for curriculum development,
upskilling current members of the manufacturing workforce, and education and training
programs that incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
National Academies Options for a National Smart Manufacturing Plan Workshops
Asking What You Want to Ask: A Workshop on Question and Questionnaire Design: March 1, 2023
WSU Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students who are interested in or planning to conduct questionnaire-based research are encouraged to attend this FREE workshop. This workshop is for all levels; beginner to advanced. The workshop will focus on questionnaire design and formatting, as well as how to create quality questions to get quality data. The questionnaire design workshop will run from 1pm to 3pm, and the hands-on lab will run from 3pm to 4pm. Presenter: Dr. Lynn Matthews. This Workshop is hosted by The Office of Planning and Analysis and the Barton School of Business Marketing Department.
Email whitney.crager@wichita.edu with questions.
White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) Virtual Public Meeting: March 1, 2023
The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) is “established to advise the Chair of the Council of Environmental Quality and the newly established White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address environmental injustice. The WHEJAC’s efforts will include a broad range of strategic, scientific, technological, regulatory, community engagement, and economic issues related to environmental justice.” See meeting registration for a list of the current discussion topics and questions.
Register for WHEJAC Virtual Public Meeting on March 1, 2023
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) STEM Hub: 2022-2023 Grant Training Webinar Series: March 3, and April 7, 2023
The NSF HSI STEM Resource Hub Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 webinar series focuses on celebrating and learning from successful NSF HSI awardees. We host panels of successful PIs on specific topics that will engage our audience and support grant writing efforts for those planning a proposal submission. This webinar series focuses on a broad array of topics that promote student success, wellness and diversity and inclusion. Dr. Martha Desmond and Dr. Delia Valles are the hosts for this series. The HSI STEM Hub recommends participation in these webinars to learn from successful awardees, particularly if you are currently writing a proposal or are interested in writing a proposal to secure a grant. The March 3, 2023 topic is “Promoting Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the Classroom and Beyond.”
Register for HSI STEM Hub Spring 2023 Grant Training Webinar Series
REMINDER - Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU): Research and University Partnerships: 2023 ORAU Annual Council Meeting: March 6-7, 2023
ORAU’s 2023 Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions will be held March 6-7, 2023 and is focused on “Climate Security and Environmental Justice: Pathways to Achieving the 2050 Carbon Net-Zero Goal.” Experts and leaders from academia, six federal agencies, and national organizations will share their views on technology innovation and transformation; science-based models for an environmentally equitable society; and future workforce development needs. The Annual Meeting is free to attend, and is open to faculty, students, and administration at ORAU member universities. Registration is required, but there is no limit on the number of attendees from each university. Attendance may be in person, or virtual.
Register for 2023 ORAU Annual Council Meeting
National Academies Workshop: Broader Impacts of Smart Manufacturing: March 7-8, 2023
“During this workshop, participants will explore a wide range of impacts that smart
manufacturing could have on industry, the U.S. economy, and the environment. Topics
will include optimization, efficiency, decarbonization, improved U.S. competitiveness,
supply chain resilience, and integrating product and process lifecycles.”
National Academies Options for a National Smart Manufacturing Plan Workshops
Office of Victims of Crime and Bureau of Justice Statistics Webinar: National Census of Victim Service Providers: March 8, 2023
“The National Census of Victim Service Provider (NCVSP) is one component of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Victim Services Statistical Research Program, which was developed to build knowledge about victim services by collecting and analyzing data from victims and the diverse entities that service victims in the United States. The NCVSP provides national data on all programs and organizations that served victims of crime or abuse within the year prior to the survey. The NCVSP was first administered in 2017 and BJS is currently working on the second administration to begin in the summer of 2023. This webinar will provide an overview of the NCVSP and demonstration of recently released interactive maps analyzing these data at the U.S. county level. Recent developments and updates for the 2023 NCVSP will be discussed. The webinar will conclude with a discussion about the importance of these data to the victim services field and how they can be used to understand the current landscape of victim services across the country and characteristics of victim service providers.”
Register for OVC BJS Webinar on the NCVSP
WSU Information Security: Privacy & Security Training: March 14, 2023; 4:00-5:00pm in RSC Room 203 (Lancelot)
Gina Riggs and Mark Rodee offer WSU Privacy and Security Training monthly on the second Tuesday of every month. Learn how to prevent, detect and respond to information security and privacy concerns.
Email informationsecurity@wichita.edu with questions.
National Science Foundation Virtual Office Hour Featuring the New Safe and Inclusive Work Environments Plan Requirement: March 20, 2023
Several solicitations from the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Geological Sciences (GEO) will soon require the submission of a Safe and Inclusive Work Environments Plan which will be considered as part of the Broader Impacts criteria during the review process. An upcoming Virtual Office Hour will occur on March 20 2023 from 3 - 4 PM ET. Program Officers from BIO and GEO will provide an overview of the new requirement and take your questions and comments.
Register for NSF Safe & Inclusive Work Environments Plan Requirement Virtual Office Hour
First Oklahoma-Arkansas-Kansas (OAK) Supercomputing Conference: April 5-7, 2023
“Welcome to the 2023 Spring OAK Supercomputing Conference! This is the first conference in a series of semi-annual conferences for the Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas region, bringing together supercomputing experts, researchers, and students from across the region for a discussion and exploration of the latest trends and technologies in the field of high-performance computing. Topics will include the relevance of machine learning & artificial intelligence and data-driven applications in scientific research.” Free, however, registration is required.
OAK Supercomputing Conference (Spring 2023) website
2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop: May 8-12, 2023
“The 2023 NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop will be held virtually over three days: May 8, May 9, and May 12, 2023, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern Time each day. This virtual workshop will provide early career faculty with knowledge and strategies to enable the formulation of more competitive CAREER proposals for submission to the NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) in 2023. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with NSF Program Directors and CAREER awardees!”
2023 NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop
Save the Date: Center for Economic Development and Business Research: Industry Research Exchange: May 10, 2023
“The pandemic has created and destroyed occupations and industries. This event will explore this phenomenon within the labor market over the last two years. The Center for Economic Development and Business Research staff will outline the employment trends and expectations over the next few years, while industry experts will provide their take on adaptation in evolving labor markets.”
Industry Research Exchange 2023
National Institute of Justice (NIJ): Free National Research Conference 2023: May 23 – 25, 2023
“The theme of NIJ’s National Research Conference is “evidence to action,” as our goal is to bring researchers and practitioners together to learn about the latest research evidence and how it can be implemented to promote safety, equity, and justice. Conference attendees will be exposed to a wide array of topics, including youth mentoring, officer wellness, school safety, forensics, technology evaluation, and strategies to engage in more inclusive research processes. Attendees will also learn how to find, apply for, and manage NIJ grant awards.”
Register for NIJ National Research Conference 2023
OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research: Free Virtual Residency Introductory Workshop 2023: June 26-30, 2023
“There's no prerequisite other than an interest in helping researchers with their computing-intensive/data-intensive research. Does your institution have lots of researchers and educators who want to use advanced computing, but need some help learning how? You or someone at your institution can learn to be more effective at helping researchers and educators use research computing! This is a great way to get better at a career in helping researchers use research computing. It's also a great way to meet a community of fellow research computing facilitators.”
Register for Free Virtual Residency Introductory Workshop 2023
REMINDER - Hanover Grants Learning Center Available
WSU Faculty and Staff may now access course content through the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center by registering and using a referral code. Courses are designed for on-demand grantsmanship training.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to request the referral code to register for access to the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center.
Learn to Use BeoShock for your Advanced Research Computing Needs
Wichita State University continues to host Beoshock, a High-performance Computing Cluster (HPC). This HPC is available and free to faculty members, researchers and students engaged in course work or research activities. BeoShock runs the CentOS Linux operating system and features approximately 720 processor cores, two high memory compute nodes with 1.5 terabytes of memory, and four graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. BeoShock also has a variety of software tools that may be helpful in your research endeavors, such as Matlab, Mathematica, R, Python and many more.
Learn more about BeoShock High-Performance Computing and access the BeoShock High Performance Computing User Guides
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Office of Research EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT – Deneé Clifford
Denee’ grew up in a place we know as Bel Aire, Kansas today. She got a B.S. in Business Management (Major: Finance, Minors: Accounting and Economics) from Brigham Young University. Following college, she moved to Irvine, California and spent 16 years working as an accountant in the Real Estate industry. Later she returned home to Kansas to live near her family. Her second career began in 2008 as a Research Administrator, initially hired in WSU’s Office of Research as an accountant. A year later she transitioned to a grants administrator position where she has been ever since. Her longevity is due to the fact that her work is never boring to her. She enjoys working with a variety of people and subjects every day. Her work is focused primarily on supporting faculty from all colleges at WSU. Her goal is always to develop a proposal that is worthy of funding. When she is not at work, you will find her spending time with family and friends, involved in her church activities, or watching a good “Hallmark” movie. Read more about the Office of Research staff…
Hanover Research Publishes Grants Calendar for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
“Hanover produces a bimonthly Grants Calendar centered on certain funding interests. The most recent calendar reviews upcoming grant opportunities focused on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, covering a range of grantmakers.”
Access the Hanover Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Grants Calendar
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Request for Information (RFI): Future Directions in Violence Against Women Research
This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to gather public input on priority scientific directions in violence against women (VAW) research. This includes cisgender, transgender, and gender-diverse persons who identify as a woman or girl, as well as other individuals assigned female at birth but who may not identify as a woman or girl. Specifically, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), the Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), and the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) are soliciting comments from the public on scientific gaps and research opportunities to address longstanding and emergent factors that perpetuate VAW. This request solicits input on a broad range of topics to inform research directions to better understand and identify opportunities to address underlying causes that influence women’s exposure to violence and to identify approaches to address the health impacts and sequelae of VAW. Responses are due March 31, 2023.
Read the NIH Request for Information: NOT-NR-23-008
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Priority Research Opportunities in Crisis Response Services
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) are issuing this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) to outline priorities for research in crisis response services. Research is sought that is conducted in real-world settings, where a wide range of clinical presentations, psychosocial factors, age-related (e.g., youth; adult; older adult), geographic (rural/remote settings), cultural considerations, and health disparities influence the types of care that are provided. Studies are encouraged that address the continuum of crisis service systems, as well as applications that address crisis services for children and under-resourced populations.
Read the NIH Notice of Special Interest: NOT-MH-23-140
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Technology Development for Cancer Control and Population Science Research
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to encourage grant applications for the development of novel technologies to support the needs of cancer control and population sciences research including healthcare delivery research, surveillance research, behavioral research, cancer epidemiology, and population scale -omics research with the goal of driving innovation in this field.
Read the NIH Notice of Special Interest: NOT-CA-23-037
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Addressing the Etiology of Health Disparities and Health Advantages Among Immigrant Populations
This NOSI calls for multidisciplinary and multilevel research to understand the interplay of multiple factors that cause health disparities or health advantages among underserved immigrant populations and the mechanisms through which they operate. Research should focus on understanding the etiology of the health outcomes among immigrant subpopulations by targeting the complex causes or consequences of health disparities and health advantages.
Read the NIH Notice of Special Interest: NOT-MD-23-002
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Frequently Asked Questions About 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy
NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy FAQs are now available.
Read the NIH FAQs on Data Management & Sharing Policy
National Science Foundation (NSF) announces nearly $50 million partnership with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to support the future of semiconductor design and manufacturing
Through this partnership activity, NSF will team with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to invest in projects that cultivate a broad coalition of science and engineering researchers to pursue holistic, “co-design” approaches. By intentionally supporting researchers who are integrating materials, devices, architectures, systems, and applications, new semiconductor technology is designed and developed in an integrated way. Co-design approaches simultaneously consider the device/system performance, manufacturability, recyclability, and impact on the environment.
REMINDER - Changes to WSU Indirect Cost Recovery Rates
Negotiations with the federal government on WSU’s new F&A (Facilities and Administration) rates, effective 1 July 2022, are almost complete. We anticipate the following significant changes to the Academic Affairs rates: On Campus Organized Research rate decreasing from the current 48% to a new rate of 40%, the On Campus Other Sponsored Activities rate decreasing from the current 30% to a new rate of 19% and the Off Campus Other Sponsored Activities rate decreasing from the current 26% to a new rate of 17%. We will announce the final rates as soon as they are negotiated. The new rates will impact your proposal and award budgets, as well as the distribution and availability of F&A funds used to support research activities on campus.
REMINDER - National Science Foundation Makes Changes to Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
NSF has made several changes to its Major Research Instrumentation Program. Applications for FY24 will now be due between October 15 and November 15, 2023. Thus, WSU is updating its internal competition dates for next year, and Notices of Intent to apply for the FY24 MRI program will be due to proposals@wichita.edu by May 1, 2023 at 12noon. Cost sharing is waived for the next five years, and the maximum allowed under Track 1 has increased to $1,400,000. Finally, the new Track 3 is specifically for proposal requests that “include the acquisition, development, installation, operation and maintenance of equipment and instrumentation to reduce consumption of helium.”
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program Page
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2022
Congratulations to those who received grants in December! Please help the WSU community stay informed by forwarding any notices of funding opportunities and/or training sessions to research@wichita.edu for inclusion in the next newsletter. Good luck to all of you in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
SMART FACTORY PO
PI/Department: Brian Brown, NIAR
Sponsor: Deloitte Services, LLP
Amount: $150,000
VIZLING APP
PI/Department: Darren DeFrain, English
Sponsor: State of Kansas – URCA
Amount: $4,500
221830SH - KMUW VIA WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
PI/Department: Jessica Hanzlicek-Treadwell, KMUW
Sponsor: Humanities Kansas
Amount: $3,588
FLOATER ARM MACHINE TORSION TUBE WELDMENT & MOUNT
PI/Department: Andrew Jonas, NIAR-Shop
Sponsor: Spirit Aerosystems INC
Amount: $2,050
APPENDIX I IN-SITU X-RAY AND THERMAL MONITORING OF THE LASER-POWDER BED FUSION PROCESS: DETERMINING FUSION SIGNATURES
PI/Department: Leonard Miller, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $90,000
TRIO STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROJECT
PI/Department: Linda Rhone, ED - Student Support Services
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $494,929
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN KTEC HOLDINGS, INC. AND WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY (ULTRASONIC FIBER GUIDANCE)
PI/Department: Richard Sack, Engineering Technology
Co-PI/Department: Ramazan Asmatulu, Mechanical Engineering | Nils Hakansson, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce
Amount: $23,000
BACKPACK PARAMOTOR SYSTEM
PI/Department: Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: D'Angelo Technologies, LLC / Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $15,401
CUBE-SAT SPACE FLIGHT TEST OF A NEUTRINO DETECTOR
PI/Department: Nick Solomey, Physics
Co-PI/Department: Atri Dutta, Aerospace Engineering | Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr | Holger Meyer, Mathematics & Statistics & Physics
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $1,099,959
2021-2022 MADE MEN COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Made Men, Inc.
Amount: $18,750
CORE SIPP - COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGN
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $20,000
KHFI EVALUATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: The Food Trust
Amount: $21,000
KSFHP HEALTHY DIET PROJECT (AMENDMENT 1)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $91,422
KSFHP TRAININGS - MBTI AND MORE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $13,500
MEETING FACILITATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Unified Government of Wyandotte County
Amount: $6,900
MISSION REFRESH & PLANNING CONVERSATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Hutchinson's Historic Fox Theatre
Amount: $2,814
STATE ESSENTIALS FOR CHILDHOOD: IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES FOR CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT PREVENTION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $92,000
SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE - ESSENCE TRAINING, VIDEO TUTORIALS AND USER MANUAL DEVELOPMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $47,205
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR OVERDOSE DATA TO ACTION (OD2A) SUBRECIPIENTS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $38,610
DEVELOP CHEMICAL CROSS-LINKERS TO SELECTIVELY LABEL MONMETHYLATED LYSINE FOR THE STUDY OF POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION-SPECIFIC LOCAL INTERACTOMES
PI/Department: Haifan Wu, Chemistry
Sponsor: State of Kansas – URCA
Amount: $4,500
MENTORING ENGINEERING FACULTY TO PROFESSIONAL IMPACT (EFIC)
PI/Department: Yimesker Yihun, Mechanical Engineering
Co-PI/Department: Yang-Seon Kim, Mechanical Engineering | Rajeev Nair, Mechanical Engineering | Wei Wei, Mechanical Engineering | Tewodros Zewde, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Arizona State University
Amount: $100,000
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized searching please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
***LIMITED*** Funding Agency: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Title: Quality of Life Grant: Direct Effort (Tier 1)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by January 24, 2022 at 5pm, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by February 9, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by March 9, 2022.
Purpose: “As a pillar of the Paralysis Resource Center, the Quality of Life Grants Program, pioneered by the late Dana Reeve, impacts and empowers people living with paralysis, their families and caregivers by providing grants to nonprofit organizations whose projects and initiatives foster inclusion, involvement and community engagement, while promoting health and wellness for those affected by paralysis in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Direct Effect (Tier 1) is open-focused and awards grants of up to $25,000 to support a wide range of projects and activities. Grants fund programs and projects that will clearly impact individuals living with paralysis and their families (see full program details).” Note, a technical assistance webinar on this opportunity will be held February 2, 2022. See the website to register. Also, an FAQ for this funding agency is available: Frequently Asked Questions.
Amount: Up to $25,000
Funding Agency: John Templeton Foundation
Title: Ideas Lab Workshop: Bringing Chemistry, Physics and Computing to Life
Application Deadline: January 31, 2022
Purpose: “A new grant award from the John Templeton Foundation invites applications to an Ideas Lab workshop, to be held June 19-24 (2022) in Prague CZ, in order to stimulate novel, collaborative research at the interface between nonequilibrium physics, artificial life, and biological chemistry. The grant will pay all travel and lodging costs for up to 30 successful applicants. The goal of the event is to help early career researchers* both within and beyond academia better position themselves for high-impact, transdisciplinary research at the highest levels of international excellence. To achieve this goal, the workshop will not only broaden each attendee’s knowledge base and professional network, but will also offer them the opportunity to apply for stakes in up to $5 million total funding for developing the ideas produced by the week’s activities.”
Amount: Travel and Lodging Costs
Funding Agency: American Vineyard Foundation
Title: Research Proposals for FY 2022-2023
Application Deadline: January 31, 2022
Purpose: “The AVF is committed to employing the recommendations of its review committees to fund research priority projects that attempt to solve viticulture and enological problems, improve grape and wine quality, focus on sustainable strategies and provide pathways for dissemination of research results to the wine community.”
Amount: See application website for examples of previously funded projects
Funding Agency: PCORI: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Title: Implementation and Research PCORI Funding Announcements
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due February 1 for Implementation, February 8 for Research
Purpose: See website for list of opportunities on a variety of research and implementation topics. Current research topics include “Brief Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol Use,” “Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions Targeting Mental Health in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities,” and “Prevention, Early Identification and Treatment of Delirium in Older Adults,” for example.
Amount: Varies by opportunity
Funding Agency: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Title: Research to Reduce Consumer Food Waste in the United States
Application Deadline: February 9, 2022
Purpose: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing cutting-edge transdisciplinary research (integrating diverse disciplines such as behavioral science, psychology, economics, public health, and sociology) to develop, apply, and test innovative and creative community-engaged approaches/methods to reduce household food waste through prevention (i.e., not redistribution) in the United States (U.S.) in real world settings. Prevention of household food waste means that the amount of food available for consumption in a household that is not ultimately eaten by the household is reduced.”
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Visual Arts
Application Deadline: February 10, 2022 and July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting visual arts activity—painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, craft, and public art—that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA is interested in supporting contemporary artists and the projects they undertake, such as exhibitions, residencies, publications, commissions, public art works, conservation, documentation, services to the field, and public programs. The NEA is committed to encouraging individual artistic development, experimentation, and dialogue between artists and the public.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Museums
Application Deadline: February 10, 2022 and July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting museum activity that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA assists museums through the support of exhibitions, care of collections, conservation, commissions, public art works, community engagement, education activities, and other museum work. Museum projects funded by the NEA demonstrate artistic excellence and artistic merit in and across a variety of mediums, movements, eras, and cultures.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
Funding Agency: Kessler Foundation
Title: Signature Employment Grants
Application Deadline: Online Concept Applications due February 22, 2022
Purpose: “Signature Employment Grants are awarded nationally to fund new pilot initiatives, demonstration projects, or social ventures that lead to a generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities. Preference is given for interventions that address the intersection of race, class, gender, disability and poverty within the framework of helping individuals with disabilities obtain competitive, integrated employment in a cost-effective manner. Signature grants are not intended to fund project expansions or bring proven projects to new communities, unless there is a significant scale, scope or replicable component.”
Amount: $100,000-$250,000 yearly, with required cost match of 15%
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: February 22, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to build an integrated information technology (IT) data management system and user community to be utilized by state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTTs) regulatory and public health partners for their human and animal food regulatory and public health programs. This cooperative agreement is intended to establish a robust IT infrastructure to assist SLTT regulatory and public health partners to better manage high quality regulatory programs and advance conformance with the regulatory standards. The IT infrastructure will be designed with the capability to integrate with FDA data exchange systems, which supports information sharing between states as well as between FDA and state regulatory and public health partners. The data management system and user community will support continuing efforts in achieving a national integrated food supply system (IFSS), promoting One Health, supporting domestic mutual reliance (DMR) initiatives and implementing the New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint.”
Amount: Maximum of $6,000,000 per year over three years.
Funding Agency: Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI)
Title: Addressing Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction
Application Deadline: February 24, 2022
Purpose: “HABRI is issuing a call for research proposals from institutions and organizations across the globe to investigate the health outcomes of pet ownership and/or animal-assisted interventions (AAI) or therapy, both for the people and the animals involved. Proposals should have a strong theoretical framework and focus on innovative approaches to studying the health effects of companion animals on humans within the following broad categories: Child Health and Development, Healthy Aging and Mental & Physical Health and Wellness. In an effort to help address larger societal challenges, proposals that have potential to impact current public health crises or issues at the forefront of public concern are welcomed. Topics include (but are not limited to) impacts on diverse and under-represented populations, social isolation and loneliness, suicide prevention, addiction, trauma and/or post-traumatic stress, obesity, and heart health.”
Amount: While there is no budget cap, HABRI awards an average of 5-6 projects each year with project costs averaging approximately $45,000 per project and an average duration of about 20 months
Funding Agency: Hearing Health Foundation
Title: Emerging Research Grant
Application Deadline: February 25, 2022
Purpose: “Through the Emerging Research Grants (ERG) program, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) provides seed money to researchers with innovative approaches to hearing and balance science. HHF Emerging Research Grants are intended primarily for promising researchers who are in the early stages of their careers and focusing on hearing loss, hearing restoration and hearing and balance related conditions. Senior investigators are also eligible for grants in specific hearing and balance topics. The primary purpose of this Award is to enable the Principal Investigator (“PI”) to become established and/or produce quality research that will allow the PI to successfully compete for NIH grants or grants from other sources.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
Title: Reimagined Spaces
Application Deadline: Required Letter of Intent due before February 25, 2022; Full application, if invited, will be due March 1, 2022
Purpose: “Reimagined Spaces provides funding for communities to activate publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of artistic use and public programming. The program is designed to utilize artists, temporary creative interventions and arts organizations to increase community vibrancy and provide space for artistic expression and public engagement. Eligible projects may include artist studios, pop-up performance spaces, installations, activation of outdoor spaces and exhibition space. In addition, a new specific pathway has been added to the application for all mural related projects.”
Amount: $10,000 with 1:1 match required
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Title: NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Application Deadline: Optional draft due February 28, 2022; Full applications due April 20, 2022
Purpose: “Through NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.” Note, a webinar for this opportunity will be January 31, 2022.
Amount: $5,000 per month
Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Title: Events Sponsorship Grants Program
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022
Purpose: “ORAU’s Events Sponsorship Grant Program Cycle 2 applications are due March 1, 2022 for events occurring between May 1 and September 30, 2022. Each member university is limited to one award per fiscal year. Awards in the 2022 Cycle 2 competition are included in the limit. Up to $4,000 may be requested to support an event that involves participants from more than one ORAU member institution, including students. Examples of such events include visits to an ORAU consortium member by a renowned speaker, conferences or workshops with a focused theme, or a technology transfer/business plan competition. Any ORAU member institution in good standing may submit an event grant application through their ORAU Councilor. Only applications endorsed by an institution’s ORAU Councilor will be considered.”
Amount: $4,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)
Application Deadline: Preliminary Proposal Required March 2, 2022; Full proposals, if invited, will be due May 31, 2022
Purpose: “The Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT) program is a strategic investment of ECCS that emphasizes new collaboration modalities among the various ECCS supported sub-disciplines. ASCENT encourages robust collaborations among the devices, circuits, algorithms, systems, and networks research communities to develop innovative projects. ASCENT seeks proposals that are bold and ground-breaking transcending the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts. ASCENT projects are expected to lead to disruptive technologies or nucleate entirely new research fields motivated by the most pressing societal challenges the global community faces. In response to the national priority that calls for sustained scientific leadership and continued growth in semiconductor technology, this ASCENT solicitation will focus on two specific research themes: Future Semiconductor Technology (FST) and Sustainable Micro- and Nano-Electronics (SMN).” Note, a webinar about this solicitation will be held on January 24, 2022.
Amount: $1,000,000-$1,500,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: March 10, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to develop new, exploratory methods, approaches, and/or tools to apply to existing data streams (e.g., electronic health records, syndromic surveillance, claims data, registry data, pharmacy dispensing, and mortality records) that could provide novel insights into the dynamics of opioid and prescription drugs misuse, addiction, recovery, relapse, and recovery to facilitate rapid understanding of the opioid epidemic for prevention and treatment or to develop methods for small area estimation that inform decisions of local (e.g., substate) jurisdictions. It will emphasize approaches that shorten the lags between data capture and data availability so the data is available real-time or near real-time to provide actionable insights, and methods and tools that improve efficiency and practical use of surveillance, clinical or other relevant data that may allow for faster or better localized responses or better allocation of resources to address the opioid epidemic.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Title: Petroleum Research Fund
Application Deadline: March 11, 2022
Purpose: “The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, geochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, surface science and catalysis, chemical physics and physical chemistry, polymer science, geology and geophysics, chemical and petroleum engineering, and materials science. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research. Also, proposals that the ACS PRF Committee feels are a logical extension of an investigator’s previous research may be denied as ‘not a new direction.’”
Amount: $55,000-$110,000 depending on funding opportunity
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Suborbital Flight Opportunities (SFO)
Application Deadline: March 15, 2022 at noon is KNEP deadline; Full NASA proposal, if selected, will be due April 15, 2022
Purpose: “The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announcement number NNH22ZHA002C. Specifically, this solicitation is: ‘for current or previously funded EPSCoR projects or other research projects that are mature enough to design a research experiment or develop research experimental hardware to the point that it can be flown in a suborbital environment.’”
Amount: $250,000 over three years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: March 18, 2022
Purpose: “This initiative will support innovative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary research designed to study the effective adaptation, integration, and implementation of recommended guidelines of care of persons with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) from populations that experience health disparities. Projects would be expected to involve more than one component and/or more than one level of influence within existing or newly proposed health care models. The goal of this initiative is attainment of optimal treatment and health outcomes goals to advance health care towards health equity.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Research Grants in the Arts
Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
Purpose: “Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.”
Amount: $10,000-$100,000; 1:1 Cost Match Required
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: NEA Research Labs
Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
Purpose: “Each NEA Research Lab will design a transdisciplinary research agenda, conduct project activities to execute that agenda, and prepare and disseminate reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the NEA: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning, and The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being.”
Amount: $100,000-$200,000; 1:1 Cost Match Required
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
Application Deadline: March 29, 2022
Purpose: “ECR: BCSER supports activities that enable researchers to expand their areas of expertise and acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to conduct rigorous research in STEM education. Career development may be accomplished through investigator-initiated professional development and research projects or through institutes that enable researchers to integrate methodological strategies with theoretical and practical issues in STEM education.”
Amount: Investigator Development awards are $350,000 over three years; Institute and Conference awards are also available under this solicitation.
Funding Agency: PCORI: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Title: Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due April 4, 2022; Full Proposals (if invited) due July 11, 2022
Purpose: “The healthcare research process traditionally includes only scientists and other research-related professionals. PCORI believes that engagement of nontraditional stakeholders—from topic selection through design and conduct of research to dissemination of results—can influence research to be more patient centered, useful, and trustworthy, and ultimately lead to greater use of research results by patients and the broader healthcare community.”
Amount: Dissemination Initiative: $250,000; Capacity-Building: $250,000; Stakeholder Convening: $100,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: First Estimated Application Due Date will be April 29, 2022
Purpose: “The goal of RE-JOIN will be to define the innervation of the different articular and peri-articular tissues that collectively form the joint (including bone, cartilage, synovium, joint capsule, ligament, tendon, fascia and muscle), by sensory neurons that mediate the sensation of pain. Knowledge about the types and distribution of neurites in joint tissues will facilitate the identification of key receptors and mediators that induce pain by activating specific sensory neurons. These mediators and their receptors will provide novel targets for reducing pain. Research teams will map the sensory innervation of knee and/or temporomandibular joint tissues in animal models and/or human tissues and have the option of including additional joints. Research Teams may also further adapt or develop technologies that would improve the ability to map neurons in joint tissues.”
Amount: TBD
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $600,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.”
“The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $600,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, X-ray diffractometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.”
“The Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single high-priced, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. The BIG Program is limited to institutions that have not received S10 instrumentation funding of $250,001 or greater in any of the preceding 3 Federal fiscal years (FY). The minimum award is $25,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $250,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, basic cell sorters, confocal microscopes, ultramicrotomes, gel imagers, or computer systems.”
Amount: See Purpose sections above.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: June 5, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this initiative is to advance the science of minority health and health disparities by supporting research on family health and well-being and resilience. The NIMHD Research Framework recognizes family health, family well-being, and family resilience as critically important areas of research to decrease disparities and promote equity.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. Maximum project period is five years.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this engineering-oriented funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to encourage submissions of exploratory/developmental Bioengineering Research Grant (EBRG) applications to demonstrate feasibility and potential utility of new capabilities or improvements in quality, speed, efficacy, operability, costs, and/or accessibility of solutions to problems in basic biomedical, pre-clinical, or clinical research, clinical care delivery, or accessibility. This FOA will support clinical trials that test functionality or validate performance in the chosen setting. Applications that propose phase III clinical trials in any area of cancer research are not sought by and will not be supported through this FOA.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Title: Fellowships with the DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
Application Deadline: Continuous/ongoing
Purpose: “The FECM is seeking motivated students, postgraduates, and faculty to participate in projects at the forefront of the clean energy transition, helping to address the climate crisis through a 12-month full-time fellowship with FECM. FECM plays an important role in providing solutions that address the climate crisis. We are working to minimize the climate and environmental impacts of fossil energy and to advance carbon management.” Note, opportunity is available to U.S. Citizens.
Amount: Varies for Student/Postgraduate/Faculty – Faculty will receive a stipend starting at $100,000-$125,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2022
Archaeology and Archaeometry – July 1 and December 20 annually
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2022
Biological Anthropology – July 20 and Jan 20 annually
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sept & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sept 1-30, 2022
Cultural Anthropology – Aug 15 and Jan 15 annually
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 16, 2022
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology – Aug 20-Sept 5, 2022
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Jan 27 & Aug 25, 2022
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – Sept 30, 2022
Security and Preparedness – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Sociology – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 9, 2022
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2022 for CMI, CLP, ECS and MSN; Sept 30, 2022 for CAT, CSDM-A, CSDM-B, CTMC, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov 21 and 23, 2022
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Feb 22 annually
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 16, 2022
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Mar 9, 2022
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – May 10, 2022
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) – Jul 13, 2022
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 30, 2022
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 24, 2022
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 12, 2022
Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science – Nov 10, 2022
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Introduction to the WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include WSU Office of Research resources and contact, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding, project budgeting and grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
See the list of upcoming workshops and sign up to attend
DOJ: Bureau of Justice Assistance: The Funding Process: First Steps to Applying, How to Prepare Now, and Other Considerations: January 26, 2022
This is the second of two webinars that will prepare applicants for Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) funding opportunities. Prior to the release of a solicitation, there are a number of steps that applicants can take. In this webinar, attendees will learn what registrations are necessary to apply, how to navigate Grants.gov and JustGrants, and what resources are available for applicants, such as the Office of Justice Programs’ Funding Resource Center. A Q&A session will follow at the end of the presentation.
Register for DOJ BJA Funding Process Webinar
Sound Health Network: Music During Incarceration: January 26, 2022
Join us for our next webinar on Music during Incarceration. Our panel will include Alison Etter, MM, MT-BC, a music therapist working at Kerrville State Hospital, serving individuals on a forensic commitment, such as those who were found not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be joined by ethnomusicologist Benjamin Harbert, PhD, who directed the film Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians and who is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, along with Conseula Gaines, an organizer, educator and motivational speaker who aims to change the criminal justice system in the US, after spending 22 years incarcerated for a crime of passion. The Sound Health Network is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Renée Fleming.
Register for Sound Health Network Webinar
Creating Structured R&D Data for Artificial Intelligence: January 27, 2022
The most challenging barrier for R&D teams to make use of machine learning and artificial intelligence is not using the best technique, but having access to clean, structured data. Current data systems often fall short, with inputs and outputs not connected, ambiguity in naming, and under-specification of results. As a result, machine learning wins are isolated to teams working on specialized projects. Watch this webinar to learn the framework for a modern, structured, data management system. When a traditional ELN or LIMS is used, teams often still work in spreadsheets, making it impossible for the entire company to benefit from their learnings. A modern system will move scientists out of spreadsheets and create a set of data that the entire company can benefit from.
Register for Creating Structured R&D Data for Artificial Intelligence Webinar
Leonard Wood Institute and Army’s Developmental Command Analysis Center (DAC) Virtual Webinars on Converging Research Opportunities: January 27, 2022 and February 4, 2022 (2pm Central)
The Leonard Wood Institute (LWI) in support of the Army’s Development Command Analysis Center (DAC) is inviting you to a virtual webinar where we along with our Army partners will discuss converging research opportunities. Each webinar will last approximately one hour or less and will be hosted using the webinar using the Zoom platform. Topics to be discussed include the Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement for Basic & Applied Scientific Research submission process, discussion of Cooperative Agreements and collaboration, discussion on Army modernization priorities and maneuver support, and limited question and answers. Both webinars will be covering the same topic areas on both dates so you need only attend one webinar.
Email Funding for a link to each webinar and additional information
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: January 27, February 24, March 24, April 28, May 26, June 30, 2022
Hanover Research is offering a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers to develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on January 27, 2022 is titled “Keys to a Competitive NSF S-STEM” and the webinar on February 24, 2022 is titled “Tools of the Trade: National Institutes of Health.”
Sign up for the Hanover Research Grants Newsletter
Office of Research Workshop: NASA Funding: Dr. Solomey & Dr. Vivod: February 2, 2022, at 10am Central
The WSU Office of Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Nick Solomey (WSU Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics) and Dr. Stephanie Vivod (NASA John H. Glenn Research Center; Research Chemical Engineer, Research Aerospace Technology, Aerospace Polymeric Materials) will be presenting about applying for successful NASA funding and funding opportunities at NASA. The workshop will be held via zoom.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to this NASA workshop
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL) What’s the Next Big Question?: AI: Leaders in A.I. Discuss the Science of the Future: February 2, 2022
Join us on Wed., Feb 2nd, at 2PM ET, for the next installment of our ongoing series of two hour sessions with leaders in AI, including Rauf Izmaliov, Peraton Labs, Vladimir Vapnik, Columbia, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Carnegie Mellon, Carla Gomez, Cornell, Bart Selmen, Cornell, Benji Maruyama, AFRL and Doug Riecken, AFRL/AFOSR, as they discuss the science of the future, the pursuit of ideas, and unanswered questions.
PCORI 2022 and Beyond: Opportunities for Funding and Involvement in Patient-Centered Research: February 2, 2022
During this live webinar, PCORI Executive Director Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH, and other PCORI leaders will share PCORI's bold vision for 2022; initiatives and opportunities for funding and involvement in our work, including research, implementation, and Engagement Award funding opportunities; and ways to get involved with PCORI through advisory panels, the Ambassador program, and merit review program.
Register for PCORI 2022 and Beyond
Office of Research Workshop: Using Pivot to Search for Funding: February 3, 2022, at 4pm Central
Fran Cook of the WSU Office of Research will demonstrate tips and tricks for using Pivot to search for funding opportunities. The workshop will be held via zoom. Please sign up for a Pivot account in advance so that you may practice searching Pivot during the workshop.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to the Pivot workshop or to request instructions for creating a Pivot account at WSU
HSI Hispanic Serving Institutions STEM Hub: Fall & Winter 2021-2022 Grant Writer Webinar Series: February 4, 2022
The NSF HSI STEM Resource Hub hosts grantsmanship webinars to support grant writing efforts for those planning on writing their first grant or engaged in writing a grant for submission. The Fall 2021 Grant Writer Webinar Series features speakers and panelists from the National Science Foundation for sharing important information for writing a competitive NSF grant. Dr. Martha Desmond and Dr. Delia Valles are the hosts for this series. The HSI STEM Hub recommends participation in these webinars if you are currently writing a proposal or are interested in grant writing. Several topics will be presented through the semester; the topic on February 4, 2022 is on the National Science Foundation’s Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate at Hispanic Service Institutions.
Register for Upcoming HSI STEM Hub Webinars
HSI (Hispanic Serving Institutions) STEM HUB Workshop on Applying for NSF CAREER Awards (for Junior Faculty): February 11, 2022
This workshop will introduce you to the CAREER program and critical differences between CAREER and other NSF proposal mechanisms. There will be plenty of time for questions. Enrollment is free and is limited to 20 participants per workshop, but you must apply to attend. Preference is given to pre-tenure HSI faculty and staff.
Apply to attend HSI STEM Hub Workshop on NSF CAREER Program Application
National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB): Virtual Office Hours: February 14, 2022
NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology’s Virtual Office Hours are on the second Monday of every month from 1pm-2pm ET. Upcoming topics are listed at the webpage below. The session on February 14, 2022 will be on the topic of How to Write a Great Review.
Sign up for upcoming NSF DEB Office Hour Topics and View Slides of Previous Meetings
ORAU 2022 Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions: March 7-8, 2022
Registration is now open for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions. The theme for this year’s meeting is Public Health Security and Innovation: Lessons Learned from COVID-19. Your participation will provide an opportunity for you and your colleagues to discuss key technology, economic, and policy challenges and opportunities. The 2022 Annual Meeting will be held virtually over two days. Sessions will begin on Monday, March 7, and conclude on Tuesday, March 8. Advance registration is required before February 28, 2022. There is no registration fee to attend, and no limit on the number of university representatives wishing to attend.
Register for ORAU 2022 Annual Meeting
XSEDE Courses
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a virtual collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation that facilitates free, customized access to advanced digital resources, consulting, training, and mentorship. XSEDE helps the nation's most creative minds discover breakthroughs and solutions for some of the world's greatest scientific challenges. Upcoming events include “Parallel Computing Concepts” on January 20, 2022.
Check for upcoming courses on the XSEDE Course Calendar
Congratulations to those who received grants in January! Please help the WSU community stay informed by forwarding any notices of funding opportunities and/or training sessions to research@wichita.edu for inclusion in the next newsletter. Good luck to all of you in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
ENABLING THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED CERAMICS
PI/Department: Edward Adler, School of Art & Design
Co-PI/Department: Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering | Wei Wei, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: State of Kansas - MURPA
Amount: $7,500
RELATIVE RISKS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEING REPORTED MISSING AND MURDERED ACROSS THE USA: RAPID REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS
PI/Department: Amy Alberton, School of Social Work
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,458
KANSAS PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER AMENDMENT 1
PI/Department: Teresa Bennett, Procurement Technical Assist Center
Sponsor: Defense Logistics Agency
Amount: $53,138
GLYCOFORMA YEAR 7
PI/Department: George Bousfield, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: GlycoFormA, Ltd.
Amount: $266,735
KSGFOA MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Government Finance Officers Association
Amount: $134,585
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY (PBLT) WORKSHOP FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION USING NASA EDUCATION RESOURCES
PI/Department: Jaehwan Byun, School of Education
Co-PI/Department: Mara Alagic, School of Education | Gisuk Hwang, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $49,989
A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND VARIABLE SELECTION IN BINARY QUANTILE REGRESSION MODELS
PI/Department: Mai Dao, Mathematics & Statistics & Physics
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,039
AUGMENTED REALITY FOR ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE (AREA) CONSORTIUM
PI/Department: Jeffrey Fisher, NIAR - Virtual Reality Lab
Sponsor: Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance
Amount: $15,000
XR MONOCULAR HUD
PI/Department: Jeffrey Fisher, NIAR - Virtual Reality Lab
Co-PI/Department: Eric Corey, NIAR - Virtual Reality Lab
Sponsor: Honeywell International Inc / Department of Energy
Amount: $79,500
RII TRACK 1: MICROBIOMES OF AQUATIC, PLANT AND SOIL SYSTEMS (MAPS) MEDIATING SUSTAINABILITY: AN OBSERVATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NETWORK ACROSS KANSAS
PI/Department: Gregory Houseman, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research INC / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $61,406
SUPPLIES TO SUPPORT RESEARCH CENTERED ON THE SOIL-BORNE, FUNGAL PATHOGEN, MACROPHOMINA PHASEOLINA
PI/Department: Gregory Houseman, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research INC / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $36,694
REI - INCREASING MICROBIAL AQUATIC SAMPLING CAPACITY
PI/Department: Thomas Luhring, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research INC / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $178,185
HAYSVILLE GEAR UP (YEAR 4)
PI/Department: Brett Lukert, ED - GEAR-UP
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $600,000
MECHANICAL AND TESTING SERVICES
PI/Department: Matthew Opliger, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems / Department of Defense
Amount: $27,684
TENSILE STRENGTH AND MODULUS UNIAXIAL EXTENSOMETER TEST
PI/Department: Matthew Opliger, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Physical Sciences Inc / Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $1,778
HEARTLAND INNOVATION AND TRANSLATION HUB YEARS 2 - 4
PI/Department: Jeremy Patterson, Interdisciplinary Innovation
Co-PI/Department: Debra Franklin, Strategic Initiatives
Sponsor: Kauffman Ctr - Entrepreneurial Ldshp
Amount: $300,000
BEETHOVEN’S ORCHESTRAL WORKS: THE 21ST CENTURY TIMPANIST’S GUIDE TO OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE
PI/Department: Gerald Scholl, School of Music
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
ACOUSTIC ABSORBER DEVELOPMENT USING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
PI/Department: Bhisham Sharma, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Lockheed Martin Space Systems CO
Amount: $20,000
COVAC INITIATIVE MINI-GRANT PROGRAM MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Heather Stafford, Student Affairs
Co-PI/Department: Loren Belew, Student Involvement
Sponsor: American College Health Association
Amount: $3,000
EMERGING MATERIALS FOR HIGH-SPEED MISSILE APPLICATIONS
PI/Department: John Tomblin, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Co-PI/Department: Rachael Andrulonis, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Advanced Technology International / Department of Defense
Amount: $245,580
INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION PROGRAM, CPO 0004 SORE 27
PI/Department: John Tomblin, FirePoint Innovations - Aerospace
Co-PI/Department: Patrick Cyrus, FirePoint Innovations - Aerospace | Pierre Harter, NIAR Flight Test & Certification
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $7,384,616
INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION PROGRAM, CPO 0006, SORE#25
PI/Department: John Tomblin, FirePoint Innovations - Aerospace
Co-PI/Department: Patrick Cyrus, FirePoint Innovations - Aerospace | Pierre Harter, NIAR Flight Test & Certification
Sponsor: US Army Research Office
Amount: $4,615,381
NIAR FLIGHT TEST RESEARCH CENTER AND MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, AND OVERHAUL FACILITY TOOLING & PERSONNEL
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Strategic Initiatives Aerospace
Co-PI/Department: Debra Franklin, Strategic Initiatives
Sponsor: Economic Development Administration
Amount: $1,999,997
LOUIS STOKES NEW STEM PATHWAYS IMPLEMENTATION-ONLY ALLIANCE: KANSAS PATHWAYS TO STEM - YEARS 3 & 4
PI/Department: Janet Twomey, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Kimberly Engber, Honors College
Sponsor: Kansas State University / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $344,402
PROOF OF CONCEPT FUNDING - NAIL SPLINT TECHNOLOGY
PI/Department: Joel White, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce
Amount: $12,000
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY UPWARD BOUND REGULAR PROGRAM IN COMMUNICATION
PI/Department: Carla Williams, ED - Communication Upward Bound
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $267,601
MEDICAID AGREEMENT: HCBS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $1,135,518
TITLE XIX MEDICAID CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, TRAINING AND EVALUATION SERVICES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $1,199,110
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized searching please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Track 4: EPSCoR Research Fellows
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit three NSF and six FAST applications, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by February 18 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by March 11, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by April 12, 2022.
Purpose: “RII Track-4: NSF provides support to further develop the individual research potential of Principal Investigators (PIs) through extended collaborative visits to the nation’s premier private, governmental, or academic research centers of their choice. RII Track-4:FAST provides opportunities for PIs from specific institutions of higher education with high enrollments of trainees from underrepresented populations in STEM (See Section "IV. Eligibility Information" for more details). The aim of this opportunity is to further develop their individual research potential through extended collaborative visits to NASA research facilities located at NASA Centers throughout the United States.”
Amount: Up to $300,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community (CTGC)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by February 21, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by March 13, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by May 2, 2022. If you are submitting an Implementation grant, a letter of intent is required by March 14, 2022.
Purpose: The program will support planning grants and implementation projects. Planning grants are intended to build capacity in the geoscience community to undertake the activities necessary to establish place-based and community-driven Earth system research projects. Implementation projects will build cohorts of individuals at specific career stages that will design inclusive research programs, conduct community engagement to identify research needs, or participate in community-driven research projects. CTGC projects will promote innovative approaches to Earth system sciences and will foster authentic and equitable collaborations between scientists and community members with the goal of addressing issues that contribute to the sustainability of the community.”
Amount: Implementation grants have a limit of $1.5M per year for up to 5 years; Planning grants have a limit of $120,000 per year for up to 2.5 years.
Funding Agency: Conservation Nation
Title: Mid-Year Established Conservationist Grant Program
Application Deadline: February 28, 2022
Purpose: “We will provide grants for global, wildlife-saving work being done by mid-career conservationists from underrepresented groups, such as women, people of color, Indigenous people and those from disadvantaged communities. A Conservation Nation Grant will place a strong emphasis on ensuring that grant recipients will share their work and knowledge and become mentors for our emerging conservationists and youth conservationists.”
Amount: $10,000
Funding Agency: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Title: 2022 Knowledge Challenge
Application Deadline: February 28, 2022
Purpose: “The 2022 Knowledge Challenge RFP is intended to support activities that improve our understanding of entrepreneurship and generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision making and change systems. Applicants will be asked to select a focus area. The two focus areas are: Systems and Structures to Support Inclusive Prosperity, and Equitable Opportunities and the Future of Work.”
Amount: $200,000 for projects led by a single PI and up to $400,000 for projects led by a team of collaborating PIs.
Funding Agency: Massage Therapy Foundation
Title: Research Awards
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 1, 2022
Purpose: “MTF research grants support high quality, independent research that contributes to the basic science of massage therapy application, including applied research investigating massage therapy as a health/mental health treatment and/or prevention modality. The research grant is available to investigators who have experience in the relevant field of research, and are presently associated with a university, independent research organization, or other institution qualified to act as Sponsoring Organization.”
Amount: $30,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: J.M. Kaplan Fund
Title: FURTHERMORE Grants in Publishing
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022 and September 1, 2022
Purpose: “Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in editing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life.”
Amount: $1,500-$15,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Title: Professional Development Programs
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022
Purpose: “NEH offers tuition-free opportunities for K-12 educators and higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics.”
Amount: Stipends of $1,300-$3,450 for residential programs; $650-$1,725 for virtual programs.
Funding Agency: PhRMA Foundation
Title: Patient-Centered Outcomes Challenge Award
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022
Purpose: “We invite submissions based on bold and creative ideas to advance methods and process associated with value assessment (and/or value elements). The PhRMA Foundation seeks papers that describe solutions to one or both of the following questions: 1) What are potential solutions for more rapidly prioritizing and closing evidence gaps to measure treatment effects on patient-centered outcomes and impacts (e.g., using RWE and electronic health data) in clinical or economic evaluations? Include case studies and consider the role of key research organizations (e.g., PCORI, AHRQ). 2) What templates or techniques can be employed to reliably demonstrate important gaps in meaningful patient-centered outcomes and impacts?”
Amount: $5,000-$50,000 Prize
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 2, 2022
Purpose: “The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to (1) facilitate multi-disciplinary or convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of behavioral science, computer science, economics, engineering, learning sciences, research on adult learning and workforce training, and the social sciences; (2) develop deeper understandings of how human needs can be met and values respected in regard to how new technologies, conditions, and work experiences are changing; (3) support deeper understanding of the societal infrastructure that accompanies and leads to new work technologies and new approaches to work and jobs, and that prepares people for the future world of work; (4) encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way people learn and adapt to technological change, creative and inclusive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales; (5) promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad and diverse workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical or cognitive impairment; and (6) understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks including inequity arising from future work at the human-technology frontier.”
Amount: $150,000-$4,000,000 depending on type
Funding Agency: NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate
Title: Space Technology Research Grants: Early Career Faculty
Application Deadline: Required Notice of Intent due March 2, 2022
Purpose: “The Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) Program within STMD seeks proposals from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of their outstanding new faculty members who intend to develop academic careers related to space technology. Proposals must address one of the following topics: Topic 1 – Development of Lightweight Solar Sail Attitude Control Technologies; Topic 2 – Hibernation and Recovery of Solar-Powered Systems for Lunar Missions; Topic 3 – Tailorable Composite Design Concepts towards Dimensionally Stable Structures. Only accredited U.S. universities are eligible to submit proposals on behalf of their outstanding new faculty members who intend to develop academic careers related to space technology. The PI must be an untenured Assistant Professor on the tenure track at the sponsoring U.S. university at the time of award. The PI must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or have lawful status of permanent residency.”
Amount: $200,000 per year over three years
Funding Agency: The Jim Henson Foundation
Title: Artist Grant: Live Puppet Theater
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 7, 2022
Purpose: “The Jim Henson Foundation awards grants each year for the creation of innovative works of contemporary puppet theater. Our definition of a puppet is an object that is given the appearance of life through direct or indirect manipulation by the human hand. We judge applications based on the excellence of the puppetry including puppet design, manipulation and theatrical execution.”
Amount: Production Grants of $7,000 are awarded for the production of new works ready to be presented in the coming year. Workshop Grants of $3,000 are for the development and workshopping of these pieces.
Funding Agency: Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Title: Hillman Emergent Innovations and Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due March 8, 2022
Purpose: “The Hillman Emergent Innovation (HEI) program provides grants to accelerate the development of bold, nursing-driven interventions that will improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations and accelerates the development of bold, early stage (untested or minimal-evidence) interventions. Likewise, the Hillman Serious Illness and End of Life Emergent Innovation (HSEI) program provides grants to accelerate the development of bold, nursing-driven interventions that will improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations, and specifically accelerates the development of bold, early stage (untested or minimal-evidence) interventions that are focused on serious illness and end of life care.”
Amount: $5,000 for HEI; $50,000 for HSEI
Funding Agency: National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
Title: Research Grant Proposals
Application Deadline: March 11, 2022
Purpose: “Research interest areas include but are not limited to: Integrating data analytics and AI as part of an accounting education; Diversity in the CPA profession; CPA Pipeline related topics’ Impact of licensing requirements on students’ decisions to pursue accounting careers.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Title: Petroleum Research Fund
Application Deadline: March 11, 2022
Purpose: “The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction in the areas of synthetic organic chemistry, geochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, surface science and catalysis, chemical physics and physical chemistry, polymer science, geology and geophysics, chemical and petroleum engineering, and materials science. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research. Also, proposals that the ACS PRF Committee feels are a logical extension of an investigator’s previous research may be denied as ‘not a new direction.’”
Amount: $55,000-$110,000 depending on funding opportunity
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Partnership Development Grant
Application Deadline: March 14, 2022
Purpose: “The PDG recipient is expected to initiate, develop, and formalize a meaningful professional relationship with a NASA researcher. Given this expectation, it is vital investigators and students travel to a NASA center if selected for an award.”
Amount: $19,272 with $2,756 in matching funds required
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Seed Research Initiation
Application Deadline: March 14, 2022
Purpose: “SRI grants are designed to assist investigators in starting research projects having a high probability for sustained growth and value to NASA and Kansas. A successful SRI grant leads to productive collaborations, joint publications, and additional grant awards. A direct impact on state economic development is also extremely desirable. Ultimately, the goal is to form long-term self-sustaining nationally competitive capabilities that meet both NASA and Kansas’s research infrastructure development goals.”
Amount: $168,265 with $24,062 in matching funds required
Funding Agency: Jeffrey Modell Foundation
Title: Translational Research Program
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due March 14, 2022; if invited, Full Application due July 5, 2022
Purpose: “Primary Immunodeficiencies occur when components of the immune system are missing or do not function properly, causing hyper-susceptibility to infection and in some cases severe autoimmunity, IBD, and respiratory diseases. Over the past decade, identification and diagnosis of Primary Immunodeficiency has greatly expanded, and knowledge of causative genes continues to rapidly grow. To date, there are over 450 specific genetic defects identified, which has not only helped advance new therapies but has also been instrumental in advancing our understanding of immunology. It is estimated that as many as 10 million people, if not more, are living with Primary Immunodeficiency worldwide. As such, the time is crucial to support research that will bridge basic science discoveries to the development of clinical applications that will impact overall health outcomes. Advancing research that enhances our understanding of the immune system represents one of the single greatest strategies that biomedical science has to offer to identify new therapies and will greatly benefit those with Primary Immunodeficiencies and the millions that remain undiagnosed.”
Amount: $250,000 over two years
Funding Agency: Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program
Title: Suborbital Flight Opportunities (SFO)
Application Deadline: March 15, 2022 at noon is KNEP deadline; Full NASA proposal, if selected, will be due April 15, 2022
Purpose: “The Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP) is seeking proposals for eventual submission to a NASA Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announcement number NNH22ZHA002C. Specifically, this solicitation is: ‘for current or previously funded EPSCoR projects or other research projects that are mature enough to design a research experiment or develop research experimental hardware to the point that it can be flown in a suborbital environment.’”
Amount: $250,000 over three years
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO)
Title: Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power (SCP) Fiscal Year 2022 Research, Development and Demonstration
Application Deadline: Mandatory Letter of Intent/Concept Paper due March 16, 2022; Full Applications due May 16, 2022; Informational webinar to be held February 24, 2022
Purpose: “This funding opportunity is designed to help decarbonize the energy sector by developing CSP technologies for carbon-free industrial processes in the United States, and next-generation plant designs that will operate at high efficiency with low-cost thermal storage. Projects supported by this opportunity will focus on lowering the cost of CSP technologies and creating new market opportunities for the industry, with the goal of enabling substantial deployment of CSP to decarbonize the electricity grid and energy system. These projects will work to apply CSP to new industries and advance the development of components for next-generation CSP systems based on solid particle heat transfer media.”
Amount: $750,000-$6,000,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Title: Technical Partnerships
Application Deadline: March 18, 2022
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to empower regions to harness the benefits of a clean energy future. This FOA supports multiple avenues for localities to improve their energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, and bolster their local workforce through research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) projects for renewable-fueled energy systems and technical assistance to support manufacturers in adopting innovative, smart technologies to help better manage their energy use. Under this FOA, DOE will provide up to $7.5 million to support activities that drive innovation, deployment, and technical assistance activities for clean energy technologies that are critical for climate protection under two topics: Topic Area 1: Advanced Technology Demonstration in a Renewably Supplied District Energy System and Topic Area 2: Regional Initiative to Integrate Smart Manufacturing and Energy Management Systems.”
Amount: $500,000 - $4million; Cost share is required
Funding Agency: The Doctor’s Company Foundation
Title: Grants related to patient safety research and educational training
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due March 21, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of the Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals in training and in practice, and patient safety research with clinically useful applications. With this in mind, we focus on projects/activities that develop knowledge, techniques, and tools whose application reduces or eliminates risk of adverse events that cause harm to patients while under care.”
Amount: “The Doctors Company Foundation is a small foundation with limited funds. Partial awards are sometimes given. Grant awards have varied from $1,000 to $307,000 since the Foundation’s inception in 2008. In the past five years, awards have ranged from $25,000 to slightly above $210,000.”
Funding Agency: AARP
Title: 2022 Community Challenge
Application Deadline: March 22, 2022
Purpose: “AARP will prioritize projects that support residents age 50 or over, are inclusive, address disparities, directly engage volunteers and aim to achieve one or more outcome areas.”
Amount: “Grants have ranged from several hundred dollars for smaller, short-term activities to tens of thousands of dollars for larger projects. Since 2017, our average grant amount is $11,500 and 76 percent of grants have been under $15,000. While AARP reserves the right to award compelling projects of any dollar amount, the largest grant ever awarded by the AARP Community Challenge was $50,000.”
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Defense – Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Title: Fiscal Year 2022 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by March 23, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by April 13, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by May 13, 2022.
Purpose: The AFOSR STEM program provides funds to support professional development, education and outreach programming. DODI 102511 gives Laboratories and Personnel Office (L&PO) the ability to: (d) “Establish programs to improve science and mathematics knowledge and skills of elementary and secondary school students and faculty members, pursuant to Section 2193a of Title 10, U.S.C.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Title: Research Grants in the Arts
Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
Purpose: “Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life.”
Amount: $10,000-$100,000 with 1:1 Cost Match Required
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
Title: NEA Research Labs
Application Deadline: March 28, 2022
Purpose: “Each NEA Research Lab will design a transdisciplinary research agenda, conduct project activities to execute that agenda, and prepare and disseminate reports and other products or services that will contribute substantively to a wider understanding of one of three areas of special interest to the NEA: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation; The Arts, Creativity, Cognition, and Learning; The Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being.”
Amount: $100,000-$200,000 with 1:1 Cost Match Required
Funding Agency: Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation
Title: Hillman Innovations in Care
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due March 29, 2022
Purpose: “The Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program provides grants to advance leading edge, nursing-driven models of care that will improve the health and healthcare of marginalized populations, and advances innovative, evidenced-based models of care that are ready to grow.”
Amount: $600,000 over three years
Funding Agency: Sun Life
Title: Team Up Against Diabetes Grant
Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
Purpose: “Our Team Up Against Diabetes grant program give us the opportunity to directly engage with community organizations and support them in their efforts to improve people's health, prevent type 2 diabetes, and help those living with type 1 diabetes.”
Amount: $25,000-$100,000
Funding Agency: Brady Education Foundation
Title: Proposals for Program Evaluations
Application Deadline: April 1, 2022, for Stage One Proposals
Purpose: “The Foundation is currently accepting proposals focused on evaluating programs that have the potential of helping to close the opportunity and resulting achievement gaps associated with race and family income.”
Amount: The website does not specify a limit
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: April 7, 2022
Purpose: “Persistent disparities in maternal health outcomes is a public health crisis that requires new insights and solutions. The purpose of this initiative, advancing integrated models (AIM) of care, is to support formative research and pilot studies to inform the development of integrated models of supportive care to prevent severe maternal morbidity and mortality among disproportionately impacted populations.”
Amount: $275,000 in direct costs over two years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: April 7, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this FOA is to identify and evaluate the ongoing and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing specifically on governmental (local, state, tribal, federal) policy and programmatic actions that address two specific social determinants of health: food/nutrition security and housing security. Applications are requested to examine how these food/nutrition and housing policies and programs aimed at lessening the effects of the pandemic impacted health and health equity in individuals, families, and communities from health disparity populations. Health disparity populations include Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, underserved rural populations, and sexual and gender minorities.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Title: Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities
Application Deadline: April 8, 2022 ($5-$10 million); May 27, 2022 ($250K-$5 million)
Purpose: “Through this new program, USDA will finance partnerships to support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities via a set of pilot projects lasting one to five years. Pilots will provide technical and financial assistance to producers who implement climate-smart practices on a voluntary basis on working lands; pilot innovative and cost-effective methods for quantification, monitoring, reporting and verification of greenhouse gas benefits; and market the resulting climate-smart commodities.”
Amount: $250,000-$10,000,000 – Note, two separate due dates depending on the project size
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Education: Small
Application Deadline: April 12, 2022
Purpose: “The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. 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.”
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Integrative Research in Gynecologic Health (RO1 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: April 18, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this FOA is to encourage integrated and synergistic research in the study of uterine fibroids, endometriosis, adenomyosis, gynecologic pain syndromes, and/or pelvic floor disorders.”
Amount: Application budgets should reflect the needs of the proposed project and should not exceed direct costs of $499,999/year.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Urgent Award: COVID-19 Mental Health Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2022
Purpose: “NIMH is issuing this FOA in response to the declared public health emergency issued by the Secretary, HHS, for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). See "Determination that a Public Health Emergency Exists Nationwide as the Result of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus" as renewed in "Renewal of the Determination that a Public Health Emergency Exists Nationwide as the Result of the Continued Consequences of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic". This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to address urgent, time-sensitive mental health research questions related to COVID-19, including broader secondary impacts of the pandemic as well as research on the intersection of mental health, COVID-19, and HIV. Research supported will improve public health in the near term by informing responses to the current pandemic through 1) understanding mechanisms by which mental illness impacts SARS-CoV-2 morbidity and mortality, 2) exploring how COVID-19 contributes to incident mental illness or HIV-outcomes, 3) identifying modifiable targets uniquely or robustly implicated in the pandemic that are relevant to new and worsening mental illness, and 4) conducting mechanistic trials probing biological or behavioral processes of those targets that may be pursued in future mental health therapeutic development. Research is anticipated to be informed by and directed towards vulnerable populations based on evidence of preexisting and worsened health disparities.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $750,000 direct costs per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences
Application Deadline: April 29, 2022
Purpose: “The NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences are a series of five-day conferences that usually feature a distinguished lecturer delivering ten lectures on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. CBMS refers to the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, which publicizes the conferences and disseminates the resulting conference materials. Support is provided for about 30 participants at each conference. Proposals should address the unique characteristics of the NSF-CBMS conferences, outlined in the Program Description.”
Amount: $35,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC)
Application Deadline: May 5, 2022, for Stage 1 Proposals
Purpose: “The Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. By addressing priorities at the local scale that are relevant across the US, CIVIC is laying the foundation for a broader and more fluid exchange of research and technology capabilities and civic priorities through joint partnerships involving civic stakeholders and the research community. CIVIC funds projects that pilot state-of-the-art solutions over 12 months, following a six-month planning phase, and have the potential for lasting impact in the partnering community as well as the potential to be scaled and implemented in other communities.”
Amount: Stage One Planning Grants are $50,000 over six months
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT)
Application Deadline: May 11, 2022
Purpose: “The National Science Foundation's Directorates for Engineering (ENG), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS), and Geosciences (GEO) are coordinating efforts to identify new concepts and ideas on Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies (SWIFT). A key aspect of the SWIFT program, now in its third year, is its focus on effective spectrum utilization and/or coexistence techniques, especially with passive uses, that have received less attention from researchers. Coexistence is when two or more applications use the same frequency band at the same time and/or at the same location, yet do not adversely affect one another. Coexistence is especially difficult when at least one of the spectrum users is passive, i.e., not transmitting any radio frequency (RF) energy.”
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: Department of Defense
Title: FY23 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Application Deadline: May 13, 2022
Purpose: “DURIP is designed to improve the capabilities of accredited United States (U.S.) institutions of higher education to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation.”
Amount: $50,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to promote epidemiologic research investigating novel and innovative hypotheses on emerging risk factors (biological, environmental, and social) and their interplay with established risk factors (e.g., viral hepatitis) associated with the development of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma and other histological subtypes) in the United States.”
Amount: $275,000 over two years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to provide support for new investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences research, to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) or the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). New investigators at the time of award under this FOA will have had less than $125,000 direct costs of combined research funding (excluding NIH training and NIH career awards). This R21 will support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources and seeks to facilitate transition to research independence. The R21 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: Direct costs limited to $125,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIHM Instrumentation Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or to purchase a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. The goal of the NIMH Instrumentation Program is to make such instruments available to either individual laboratories or core facilities that conduct mental health-related research. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers.”
Amount: Applications will be accepted with an award budget between $200,000 and $600,000. There is no maximum limit on the cost of the instrument, but the maximum award is $600,000.
Funding Agency: NIH PRIDE – Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research
Title: Summer Research Training for Junior Faculty from Diverse Backgrounds
Application Deadline: Continuous/ongoing
Purpose: “Enhancing the diversity of the biomedical research workforce through Mentored Programs offering research experiences, skills development and grant writing training for Junior Faculty from Diverse Backgrounds. Research topics vary by program but are centered on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders research; methodologies include health disparities, genetic and others relevant to these topics.”
Amount: All Expenses Paid Summer Program; Pre-Applications for Cohort 10, Summer 2022 are now open.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2022
Archaeology and Archaeometry – July 1 and December 20 annually
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2022
Biological Anthropology – July 20 and Jan 20 annually
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sept & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sept 1-30, 2022
Cultural Anthropology – Aug 15 and Jan 15 annually
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 16, 2022
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology – Aug 20-Sept 5, 2022
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 25, 2022
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – Sept 30, 2022
Security and Preparedness – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Smart & Connected Communities – proposals accepted anytime
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Sociology – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 8, 2023
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2022 for CMI, CLP, ECS and MSN; Sept 30, 2022 for CAT, CSDM-A, CSDM-B, CTMC, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov 21 and 23, 2022
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Feb 22 annually
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 16, 2022
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Mar 9, 2022
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – May 10, 2022
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) – Jul 13, 2022
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 30, 2022
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 24, 2022
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 12, 2022
Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science – Nov 10, 2022
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Introduction to the WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include WSU Office of Research resources and contact, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding, project budgeting and grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
See the list of upcoming workshops and sign up to attend
Office of Research Workshop: NASA Funding: Dr. Solomey & Dr. Vivod: February 17, 2022, at 1pm Central
The WSU Office of Research is pleased to announce that Dr. Nick Solomey (WSU Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics) and Dr. Stephanie Vivod (NASA John H. Glenn Research Center; Research Chemical Engineer, Research Aerospace Technology, Aerospace Polymeric Materials) will be presenting about applying for successful NASA funding and funding opportunities at NASA. The workshop will be held via zoom.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to this NASA workshop
ORAU Data Science Webinar Series: Data Science in Ecology: Needs and Strategies for Workforce Development: February 23, 2022
Promote more in-depth dialog on the current and future integration between data science and ecology, including remote sensing, geospatial approaches, environmental monitoring, modeling and forecasting. Focus on key training needs, strategies to strengthen the pipeline of diverse data science professionals; and lessons learned from data science education in higher education.
Register to Attend ORAU Data Science Webinar or Watch Previous Sessions
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: February 24, March 24, April 28, May 26, June 30, 2022
Hanover Research is offering a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers to develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on February 24, 2022 is titled “Tools of the Trade: National Institutes of Health” and the webinar on March 24, 2022 is titled “Funding Landscape for Arts and Humanities.”
Sign up for the Hanover Research Grants Newsletter
NSF GEO Education and Broadening Participation Programs: February 28, 2022
The Directorate for Geosciences is hosting a series of office hours for Education and Broadening Participation programs, in support of NSF Program Solicitations 22-562 and 22-555, and DCL NSF 21-071. These office hours are a chance to communicate with NSF program officers and to ask any questions you may have about the programs.
Sign up to attend NSF GEO Webinar
PCORI Engagement Awards Applicant Office Hours: March 3 and March 23, 2022
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for three funding opportunities through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program, which funds projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research and comparative clinical effectiveness research. Applicant office hours sessions will be held on March 3, and March 23 and the submission deadline for LOIs is April 4, 2022.
Attend PCORI Applicant Office Hours
HSI Hispanic Serving Institutions STEM Hub: Spring 2022 Grant Writer Webinar Series: March 4, 2022: Strategies for Responding to NSF Proposal Reviews
Between January and April, the NSF HSI STEM Resource Hub will sponsor a series of grantsmanship workshops for HSI faculty, staff, and their collaborators. The workshops are crafted to enhance faculty skills in specific elements of the grantsmanship skillset. In addition to our popular 2-day intensive Jumpstart grantsmanship workshop, we are offering short, half-day Sembrador workshops that build skills in specific elements of grant preparation and management, including how to revise and resubmit declined NSF proposals.The virtual workshops are limited to 12 to 24 participants to allow attendees from across the nation to collaborate and network in a setting that promotes and encourages personal interactions.
Apply to attend “Strategies for Responding to NSF Proposal Reviews”
ORAU 2022 Annual Meeting of the Council of Sponsoring Institutions: March 7-8, 2022
Registration is now open for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions. The theme for this year’s meeting is Public Health Security and Innovation: Lessons Learned from COVID-19. Your participation will provide an opportunity for you and your colleagues to discuss key technology, economic, and policy challenges and opportunities. The 2022 Annual Meeting will be held virtually over two days. Sessions will begin on Monday, March 7, and conclude on Tuesday, March 8. Advance registration is required before February 28, 2022. There is no registration fee to attend, and no limit on the number of university representatives wishing to attend.
Register for ORAU 2022 Annual Meeting
National Science Foundation Smart & Connected Communities (NSF 22-529) Program Webinar: March 16, 2022
For teams new to the S&CC program, this 90-minute informational webinar will provide: An overview of the S&CC program; Details of the updated solicitation and important submission information for potential proposers across academia, community organizations, and state and local government; Q&A with S&CC Program Directors.
XSEDE Webinar: Singularity – Containers for Scientific and High-Performance Computing: March 17, 2022
Singularity is an open-source container engine designed to bring operating system-level virtualization to scientific and high-performance computing. With Singularity you can package complex computational workflows --- software applications, libraries, and data --- in a simple, portable, and reproducible way, which can then be run almost anywhere. Once you’ve created your Singularity container, you can run it on the workstation in your lab, on a virtual machine in the public cloud, or on the world’s largest supercomputers. Singularity is all about the mobility of compute. In this webinar, we’ll provide an overview of Singularity and how you might incorporate the use of containers in your own research. We’ll also show you how to access and use some of the containerized applications that we make available to users on Expanse at SDSC.
Register for XSEDE Singularity Webinar
National Science Foundation (NSF) – New Approaches to Representing Women in Science: March 22, 2022
A dialogue between historians of science Leila McNeill and Anna Reser, co-founders of the independent magazine “Lady Science” and co-authors of “Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science,” and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, a multidisciplinary artist known for portraiture projects, including “Beyond Curie.” Lacey Baradel, science historian at the National Portrait Gallery, will moderate the conversation. This conversation will examine recent approaches to representing women in the history of science through portraiture and biography. Specifically, it will explore the challenge of subverting established historical narratives and defining women’s participation in the history of science. Additional topics include the role of collaboration in producing and consuming these histories; the use of new technologies and media platforms; and efforts to identify and engage specific audiences.
VentureWell Information Session on BME-IDEA International Program: March 24, 2022
VentureWell, with support from the Whitaker International Program, is implementing the BME-IDEA International E-Team Grant Program. This program offers grant funding to support collaborative project opportunities for US-based BME design students and their counterparts across the BME-IDEA global network. We’re seeking teams developing a novel, scalable engineering-based invention that addresses a critical social, environmental, or economic problem, including biomedical devices, health care diagnostic tools, and global health technologies to take part.
Sign Up for Venture Well BME-IDEA International Information Session
Kansas NSF EPSCoR 2022 Annual Research Symposium: March 30, 2022
This full day event will feature talks by faculty and students investigating microbiomes of aquatic, plant, and soil systems (MAPS). We will also commemorate Kansas NSF EPSCOR's 30 years of achievements in research, education and workforce development.
Register for KS NSF EPSCoR Meeting
EPA Emergency Response Research Webinar Series: April 13, 2022
EPA's Office of Research and Development hosts this webinar series to share current research activities and results. This webinar series covers the latest information on research supporting EPA's response to chemical, biological, and radiological incidents, as well as natural disasters. This forum allows EPA to communicate directly with partners and stakeholders to foster collaboration and dissemination of information. For example, the topic on April 13, 2002 will be “Underground Storage Tanks Finder for Emergency Response.” You may also view past webinars on the webpage.
EPA Emergency Response Research Webinar Series Webpage
NSF Bioeconomy Distinguished Lecture Series: April 28, 2022
NSF invests in fundamental research to support biotechnology and advance the U.S. bioeconomy across the sciences and engineering. Presented by NSF's Bioeconomy Coordinating Committee and NSF Directorates, this distinguished lecture series will bring in individual speakers and panels representing the science and technology funded by a Directorate every month. Speakers will present on research and broader impacts in areas associated with biotechnology and the bioeconomy that are of interest broadly across the foundation. The session on April 28, 2022 will feature Dr. Pavel Kabat of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), Secretary General of the HFSPO, Co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as the Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
More Details about the NSF Bioeconomy Distinguished Lecture Series
XSEDE Courses
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a virtual collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation that facilitates free, customized access to advanced digital resources, consulting, training, and mentorship. XSEDE helps the nation's most creative minds discover breakthroughs and solutions for some of the world's greatest scientific challenges. Upcoming events include “Parallel Computing Concepts” on January 20, 2022.
Check for upcoming courses on the XSEDE Course Calendar
Congratulations to those who received grants in February! Please help the WSU community stay informed by forwarding any notices of funding opportunities and/or training sessions to research@wichita.edu for inclusion in the next newsletter. Good luck to all of you in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
ARMED OVERWATCH
PI/Department: Allison Bonitati, NIAR
Sponsor: Textron Aviation, Inc. / US Airforce
Amount: $28,252
CITY OF BEL AIRE PLANNING COMMISSION TRAINING
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Bel Aire
Amount: $750
LIGHTNING STRIKE MITIGATION IN AIRCRAFT
PI/Department: Nicholas Conquest, NIAR-Environmental Test Lab
Co-PI/Department: Rebeka Khajehpour, NIAR-Environmental Test Lab
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems
Amount: $25,000
ERI: WORKLOAD-INFORMED OPERATIONS FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES AND OTHER FIRST-RESPONDER SYSTEMS
PI/Department: Laila Cure Vellojin, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $199,901
AR/XR ON COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE
PI/Department: Jeffrey Fisher, NIAR-Virtual Reality Lab
Co-PI/Department: Carryl Baldwin, Psychology
Sponsor: Honeywell International Inc / Department of Energy
Amount: $52,500
FLEXIBLE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES PHASE II
PI/Department: Debra Franklin, FirePoint Innovations-Aerospace
Sponsor: Martin Defense Group / Office of Naval Research
Amount: $128,900
3-D ICE ACCRETION ANALYSIS
PI/Department: Luis Gomez Valbuena, NIAR
Sponsor: BETA Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $197,440
HCBS FINAL RULE
PI/Department: Amy Jones, Training & Technology Team (T3)
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $456,653
MFEI TOOLS UPDATES, TESTING, AND DEPLOYMENTS (I/DD, OFFLINE, APEX)
PI/Department: Amy Jones, Training & Technology Team (T3)
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Centers for Medicare & Medicade Srv
Amount: $374,967
TG TEST SPECIMENS
PI/Department: Matthew Opliger, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: GKN Aerospace / Department of Defense
Amount: $195
MML4 COMPRESSION/FATIGUE JOINT WEAR TESTING
PI/Department: Upul Palliyaguru, NIAR
Sponsor: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
Amount: $39,308
OVERWRAPPING THERMOPLASTIC LUGS VIA AFP
PI/Department: Upul Palliyaguru, NIAR
Sponsor: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
Amount: $10,736
MOCK TRIAL - MUSVKIN
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $5,500
MOCK TRIAL - INREPPI
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $7,000
MOCK TRIAL - USSVPFS
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $5,000
MOCK TRIAL - MASVAME
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $2,500
MOCK TRIAL - ARIVTHE
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $5,500
ENHANCED 21 PUNCTURE RESIST
PI/Department: Brian Smith, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Martin Defense Group / Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
Amount: $1,548
DRIVING ADOPTION: SMART MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Strategic Initiatives Aerospace
Co-PI/Department: Debra Franklin, Strategic Initiatives
Sponsor: Economic Development Administration
Amount: $500,000
CONSUMER RUN ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services
Amount: $160,446
COVID-19 HEALTH DISPARITIES: CHW CLINIC TEAMS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $59,970
CHWS FOR COVID RESPONSE AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $156,733
KDHE'S CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAMS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $13,177
GRANT ADMINISTRATION - AMENDMENT 1
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $4,287,288
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized searching please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
***Limited*** Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two applications, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by March 21 at 12noon in case an internal competition is needed. If selected to move forward, applications to the funder will be due April 20, 2022
Purpose: “A goal of this funding opportunity is to foster the development of climate, Earth, and environmental science research and training capacity at underrepresented institutions. To do this, the funding opportunity fosters engagement between underrepresented institutions and national laboratories and universities currently participating in the DOE’s climate, Earth, and environmental sciences research supported by the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. Funding will include support for underrepresented institutions to develop partnerships with DOE projects at national laboratories and universities, develop plans for capabilities for future research, and leverage the DOE user facilities. In addition, projects will support participation in outreach and training being planned by DOE’s climate, Earth, and environmental sciences programs and facilities.” Note, a webinar about this opportunity will be held March 22, 2022.
Amount: $50,000-$150,000
Funding Agency: WSU Regional Institute on Aging
Title: Funding for Faculty
Application Deadline: March 21, 2022
Purpose: “The Regional Institute on Aging provides various funding opportunities, primarily as internal grants for WSU faculty. The primary purpose of this funding is to assist faculty members in their scholarly and/or creative activities and to foster the generation and application of scholarly work aimed at improving the quality of life of older adults.”
Amount: $5,000-$20,000
Funding Agency: Meta AI
Title: Request for Proposals: Dynabench Data Collection and Benchmarking Platform
Application Deadline: March 23, 2022
Purpose: “Meta AI is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to this call for research proposals about the Dynabench platform. Launched in 2020, Dynabench is a research platform for dynamic data collection and benchmarking. Static benchmarks have well-known issues. They saturate quickly, are susceptible to overfitting, contain exploitable annotator artifacts and have unclear or imperfect evaluation metrics. The Dynabench platform is a scientific experiment to answer the question: Can we make faster progress if we collect data dynamically, with humans and models in the loop, rather than in the old-fashioned static way? The aim is to continuously challenge existing benchmarking dogma and try to embrace dynamic solutions at all times.”
Amount: $55,000
Funding Agency: ORAU
Title: ORAU-Directed Research and Development Grants
Application Deadline: March 23, 2022
Purpose: “On March 7th during the Annual Council Meeting, the Research and University Partnerships Office formally announced the Call for Proposals (CFP) for the FY23 ORAU-Directed Research and Development (ODRD) Program to ORAU subject matter experts. The FY23 research areas are Climate and Environment, Health Equity, and Future of the STEM Workforce. Proposals are due in June 2022, and must be submitted by ORAU staff. ODRD projects are joint collaborations between ORAU and university researchers, designed as seed projects to attract ongoing research funding. ORAU researchers lead the effort as Principle Investigator and are responsible for initiating and proposing the project. Funding for awarded projects is shared between both parties, and projects must be completed in one year. The period of performance is October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023. Member university personnel with active relationships with ORAU staff are encouraged to reach out directly to discuss the potential for an ODRD project. To facilitate new partnerships between ORAU and university researchers, we invite university faculty to submit a collaboration request at the following link: https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/fy23odrd.aspx. Requests must outline the proposed research topic, the role of the ORAU researcher, and the role of the university researcher. Requests will be accepted until 11:00pm EST on March 23, 2022 and will be shared with the ORAU research community. If complementary interests align, ORAU will contact you to discuss the potential partnership the week of April 11, 2022. Submission of request is not required and does not guarantee collaboration or funding opportunities. Late requests will not be accepted.”
Amount: To Be Determined
***Limited*** Funding Agency: VentureWell
Title: Course and Program Grant Spring 2022
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two applications, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by March 25 at 12noon in case an internal competition is needed. If selected to move forward, applications to the funder will be due May 18, 2022
Purpose: “The Spring 2022 Sustainable Design Course & Program Grants cycle will support faculty and staff who are committed to cultivating I&E dedicated to positive progress towards social and environmental sustainability, and will integrate sustainable design concepts, tools, and frameworks into their I&E curriculum. We are seeking proposals with innovative ideas related to the development of new courses and programs, or to strengthening existing courses and programs, that incorporate key sustainable design concepts with the end goal of developing novel inventions and technologies.
Amount: $30,000
Funding Agency: MIT Solve’s 2022 Global Challenges
Title: Climate: Ecosystems & Housing | Equitable Health Systems | Re-Engaging Learners | The Care Economy
Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
Purpose: “Do you have a solution to a global problem? Apply to Solve's Global Challenges, which are open to anyone, anywhere in the world between February to March each year.”
Amount: Varies by Challenge
Funding Agency: NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD)
Title: Space Tech-REDDI-2022 Early Career Faculty (ECF22)
Application Deadline: March 31, 2022
Purpose: “ECF is focused on supporting outstanding faculty researchers early in their careers as they conduct space technology research of high priority to NASA’s Mission Directorates.”
Amount: $200,000/year
Funding Agency: Terra Foundation
Title: Convening Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due April 1, 2022; If invited, full applications will be due June 15, 2022
Purpose: “The Terra Foundation actively supports convenings worldwide that question and broaden definitions of American art. Grant funding is available for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field. We also welcome requests for convenings intended to inform projects in their early stages, which will benefit from the learning and practice that can be developed through dialogue.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Bridging EPSCoR Communities (RII-BEC)
Application Deadline: April 4, 2022
Purpose: “The RII-BEC initiative seeks to enable institutions in EPSCoR jurisdictions to set up bridge programs to facilitate the transitions of Affected Groups (e.g., women, underrepresented groups, research trainees, and graduate fellows) from one stage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training to the next, with particular focus on providing support for individuals from groups underrepresented in STEM and those transitioning from or to minority-serving institutions (MSIs) within EPSCoR jurisdictions.”
Amount: $1,000,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Title: Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by April 6, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by April 27, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by May 30, 2022, with a requested letter of intent due April 30, 2022.
Purpose: The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on “Courses for Skills Development.” This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks to support programs that include innovative approaches to enhance biomedical engineering (BME) design education to ensure a future workforce that can meet the nation’s needs in biomedical research and healthcare technologies.”
Amount: Direct costs of up to $20,000 per year may be requested. Programs that include a clinical immersion program outside the academic year and lasting 6 to 10 weeks (at least 30 hours per week) may request an additional $20,000 to cover participant costs (see Participant Costs section below), yielding a total of $40,000 in direct costs.
Funding Agency: National Academies
Title: Engaging Communities to Design Nature-based Solutions to Mitigate Climate-related Hazards
Application Deadline: April 8, 2022
Purpose: “The Gulf Research Program (GRP) addresses the health and resilience challenges of US Gulf Coast communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate change. One approach the GRP is taking to address these challenges is to build the capacity of communities to mitigate future climate risks. Though there are numerous resources available to assist communities in becoming more resilient to climate impacts, these resources often do not reach or benefit those communities most at-risk. In addition, much of the available funding is directed toward traditional mitigation measures (e.g., dams, levees, floodwalls) rather than alternate strategies such as nature-based solutions (NBS), and many communities do not have the subject matter expertise to develop strategies that include NBS. This funding opportunity focuses on the importance of NBS as part of a strategy to mitigate climate-related hazards. Specifically, this opportunity will fund collaborations between subject matter experts and local or tribal governments that engage diverse groups of community stakeholders to adapt an existing or design a new project that incorporates one or more NBS.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Department of Energy
Title: Deploying Solar with Wildlife and Ecosystem Service Benefits (SolWEB)
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due April 11, 2022; Full Applications if invited will be due June 20, 2022.
Purpose: “DOE is interested in projects that will produce results with broad relevance to solar stakeholders by establishing methods, technologies, models, best management practices, or resources that facilitate ground-mounted photovoltaic energy generation, including utility-scale and community solar, or concentrating solar-thermal power that is compatible with surrounding wildlife. DOE is also interested in assessing and optimizing ecosystem benefits that solar energy facilities can provide, such as soil formation, pollination of food crops, and carbon sequestration.” Instructions are also provided on joining the Teaming Partner List.
Amount: $500,000-$2,000,000
Funding Agency: AARP Foundation
Title: Advancing Economic Opportunity Among Older Adults
Application Deadline: Required Pre-Application due April 15, 2022; Full Applications if invited will be due May 31, 2022.
Purpose: “Eligible applicants are invited to submit a brief pre-application that contains background about their organization, basic information about their project model and its implementation, their commitment to equity and how their project’s proposed outcomes align with AARP Foundation’s mission and the objectives.”
Amount: $100,000-$250,000
Funding Agency: NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (KU CoBRE)
Title: Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease Call for Pilot Project Applications
Application Deadline: April 19, 2022
Purpose: “The KU NIH CoBRE in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease will provide investigators with support for research activities, mentoring, and access to Core Lab Services.” Note: please email proposals@wichita.edu for a copy of the solicitation as it is not currently posted on the CBID CoBRE website.
Amount: $70,000
Funding Agency: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASH Foundation)
Title: Speech Science Research Grant
Application Deadline: April 20, 2022
Purpose: “The Speech Science Research Grant is designed to further research activities of new investigators and to promote Dr. Klatt's work. Until his death in 1989, Dr. Klatt conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the acoustic properties of speech production and perception. The Grant can be used to initiate new research or supplement an existing research study. Funds may be requested for a variety of purposes—for example, equipment, subjects, research assistants, or research-related travel.”
Amount: $10,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: April 22, 2022
Purpose: “Violence affects people of all ages and its impact is far-reaching. It is a leading cause of death and nonfatal injuries in the United States and constitutes a major public health crisis, especially among young people, and in particular among racial/ethnic minority, sexual and gender minority (SGM) and disability populations. Firearm homicide is the third leading cause of death among persons aged 10 to 24 years and the leading cause of death among Black men (<45 years of age). NIH is committed to supporting research that identifies innovative prevention approaches to reduce firearm and related violence, injury and mortality. Within the legislative mandates and limitations of NIH funding (NOT-OD-21-058, NOT-OD-21-056), this initiative will support a network of research projects to develop and test interventions at the community or community organization level that aim to prevent firearm and related violence, injury and mortality.”
Amount: $500,000/year in direct costs for UG3 (phase 1); $1,000,000/year in direct costs for UH3 (phase 2)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2022
Purpose: “The National Science Foundation’s strategic goals are to expand knowledge and build capacity for a diverse science and engineering workforce. The goal of this solicitation is to enable and create opportunities to advance scientific discoveries and new research using a variety of approaches that harness the national talent ecosystem of experienced faculty. Recognizing that a successful faculty research career is neither linear nor continuous, this BRITE solicitation seeks proposals that enable experienced researchers and scholars (tenured or equivalent) to forge new directions or to enter new fields by capitalizing or branching out of their established knowledge domains.”
Amount: Varies based on proposal type; Average award size is $333,333, based on number of anticipated awards
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on School Safety
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline April 25, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 9, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to: 1) study the root causes and consequences of school violence and 2) examine the impact and effectiveness of awards made for purposes authorized under the STOP School Violence Act. NIJ seeks to fill knowledge gaps in these two areas. Applications proposing research involving partnerships with criminal justice or other agencies should include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority from each proposed, partnering agency. A letter of support should include the partnering agency’s acknowledgement that de-identified data derived from, provided to, or obtained through this project will be archived by the grant recipient with the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the conclusion of the award.”
Amount: To be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline April 25, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 9, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform efforts to prevent and combat hate crimes and their effects. Though applications may cover a range of topics, NIJ is particularly interested in funding research to: (1) understand and prevent hate crime offending and reoffending, (2) identify strategies that improve the reporting, investigating, and prosecuting of hate crimes, (3) address the needs of victims of hate crimes and their communities.”
Amount: To be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline April 26, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 10, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks investigator-initiated proposals to conduct a comprehensive evidence-based analysis of existing evidence to examine how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy. NIJ anticipates making one award.”
Amount: $800,000 over five years
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline April 26, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 10, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects to support the development of objective and independent knowledge and validated tools to reduce violence against women (VAW) (including violence against elderly women and American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls), promote justice for victims of crime, and enhance criminal justice responses. For that reason, this solicitation seeks applications for grant funding to conduct research and evaluation projects examining a broad range of topics, including the crimes of domestic and family violence, homicide, intimate partner and dating violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking, and sex trafficking, along with the associated criminal justice system response, procedures, and policies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2022, NIJ is interested in research responding to the following two priority areas: 1) evaluation research on VAW programs, models, practices and 2) VAW research. As it concerns VAW research, topics of interest include: (1) the frequency, nature, and causes of homicide and violent deaths of women and girls; (2) the risk for involvement in abusive romantic relationships; (3) campus climate and sexual violence experiences of students attending historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges and universities; (4) prevalence and barriers to seeking and receiving help among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and two-spirited individuals and people/persons with disabilities who have experienced intimate partner and dating violence, sex trafficking, sexual violence, and stalking; (5) the use of technology to protect or deliver services to victims of domestic and family violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking; (6) the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of cases involving domestic and family violence (including violence against older women), intimate partner and dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking; and (7) law enforcement and prosecution victim-centric and trauma-informed policies, procedures, protocols, and training pertaining to violence against women crimes.”
Amount: To be determined by the requirements of the research proposed in grants selected for award.
Funding Agency: National Academies: Gulf Research Program (GRP)
Title: Empowering K-8 Youth Through Place-Based Education Projects and Programs
Application Deadline: April 27, 2022
Purpose: “The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP) aims to increase the scientific and environmental literacy and problem-solving skills of children and youth in the Gulf of Mexico region. This funding opportunity will support the next generation of informed citizens, scientists, engineers, and decision-makers in understanding the socio-environmental challenges of their local communities and providing opportunities to increase their capacity to address them. Specifically, the GRP is seeking proposals that engage children and youth in place-based educational activities that will foster the development of the scientific and environmental skills, competencies, and capabilities that are critical to solving complex issues in the Gulf now and into the future. The GRP will accept proposals from nonprofit, state, and local entities, excluding federal agencies that support educational, service, and/or coordination activities for children and youth in the K-8 grade range. Post-secondary institutions are eligible to apply as Project Team Members working under a Program Director who has programmatic experience serving children and youth (e.g. through a school district or community-based organization).”
Amount: At least $75,000
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Pivot Fellowship Request for Applications
Application Deadline: April 29, 2022
Purpose: “The Simons Foundation invites applications for the Pivot Fellowship program, which will support researchers who have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. The fellowship will enable today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to a new field and will consist of one training year where the fellow will be embedded in a lab of a mentor to learn the new discipline and its culture. Mentorship and support are essential for learning a new discipline and culture. In addition to the qualifications and potential of the applicant, the suitability of the mentor and the environment for mentorship will be strongly considered in the application process..”
Amount: A Pivot Fellowship provides one year of salary support of the Fellow’s academic-year salary, whether normally paid over 9 or 12 months, and a $10,000 research, travel and professional development allowance during the fellowship training year. Mentors will receive a $50,000 research fund during the fellowship year. Indirect costs are limited to 20% of allowable expenses.
Funding Agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Title: Post-Ph.D. Research Grants
Application Deadline: May 1, 2022 and November 1, 2022
Purpose: “The program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfield.”
Amount: $20,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline May 2, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 9, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous basic or applied research and development projects. An NIJ forensic science research and development grant supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project that will a) Increase the body of knowledge to guide and inform forensic science policy and practice; or b) Lead to the production of useful material(s), device(s), system(s), or method(s) that have the potential for forensic application.”
Amount: Maximum $500,000/year – Average award size is $203,556/year
Funding Agency: Sedgwick County
Application Deadline: May 3, 2022
Purpose: “Sedgwick County, Kansas is seeking a firm or firms to provide an EMS Electronic Patient Care Reporting (ePCR) and Fire Records Management System (RMS) solution.”
Amount: Sedgwick County is soliciting bids.
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Large Research Grants on Education
Application Deadline: Mandatory Intent to Apply due May 4, 2022, with Full Proposals due June 15, 2022
Purpose: “The Large 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.”
Amount: $125,000-$500,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)
Application Deadline: May 5, 2022
Purpose: “Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership.”
Amount: SAI Planning Grants (SAI-P) may be requested for a total budget not to exceed $150,000 and for a period of up to 1 year; SAI Research Grants (SAI-R) may be requested for a total budget not to exceed $750,000 and for a period of up to 3 years; SAI Conference Grants (SAI-C) may be requested for a total budget not to exceed $50,000 and for a period of up to 1 year.
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
Application Deadline: May 9, 2022
Purpose: “Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones.”
Amount: $150,000
*** LIMITED*** Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Scholars Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application per college, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 11, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by June 3, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due July 6, 2022.
Purpose: “The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Scholars must select one focus are: Reducing Inequality or Improving the Use of Research Evidence.”
Amount: Each year, four to six Scholars are selected and each receives up to $350,000, distributed over five years. Awards begin July 1 and are made to the applicant’s institution.
Funding Agency: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Title: Agricultural and Food Research Initiative – Foundational and Applied Science Program
Application Deadline: Earliest due date is May 12, 2022; due dates vary by research topic
Purpose: “The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities.”
Amount: Varies by research topic
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Application Deadline: May 16, 2022 and January 19, 2023
Purpose: “This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI; (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials; and (iii) build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and science and engineering (S&E) disciplines.” Please note, a webinar on this opportunity will be offered April 7, 2022.
Amount: Pilot Projects: $300,000; Implementation: $500,000-$1,000,000
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Title: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Program
Application Deadline: White papers due May 16, 2022; Full proposals accepted until September 9, 2022.
Purpose: “Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI) efforts involve teams of researchers investigating high priority topics and opportunities that intersect more than one traditional technical discipline. For many military problems this multidisciplinary approach serves to stimulate innovations, accelerate research progress and expedite transition of results into naval applications.”
Amount: $500,000-$1,000,000/year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Application Deadline: May 25, 2022
Purpose: “This PIRE competition invites visionary, ambitious, interdisciplinary, use-inspired research proposals that address scientific challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy.”
Amount: $1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute
Application Deadline: May 25, 2022
Purpose: “The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on: Courses for Skills Development. Applications are encouraged that propose innovative, state-of-the-art programs that address the cause, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, or the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients, in order to advance the NCI mission.”
Amount: $300,000 in direct costs/year
*** LIMITED*** Funding Agency: W. M. Keck Foundation
Title: Scholars Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two proposals (one medical and one science & engineering), Limited Submission Concept Papers must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 31, 2022 at 12 noon, in case an internal competition is needed. WSU may choose up to four medical and four science & engineering Concept Papers to submit to Keck for consultation. You will be informed if your Concept Paper has been chosen to be reviewed by Keck consultants by June 15, 2022, and you will have a chance to finalize your Concept Papers for Keck consultation review (if selected) by June 30, 2022. Please email proposals@wichita.edu for a list of requirements for the internal WSU Limited Submission Concept Papers.
Purpose: “The Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas: 1) medical research and 2) science and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. Past grants have been awarded to major universities, independent research institutions, and medical schools to support pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$2,000,000.
Funding Agency: Tell Every Amazing Lady (T.E.A.L)
Title: Medical Research Program Request for Proposals 2022 Research Beneficiary
Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
Purpose: “The Tell Every Amazing Lady® About Ovarian Cancer Louisa M. McGregor Ovarian Cancer Foundation 2022 Medical Research Program offers funding in support of ovarian cancer research studies that are most aligned with our mission as determined by the T.E.A.L.® board of directors and scientific advisory board.”
Amount: Up to $10,000 per year
Funding Agency: Fulbright Scholar Program
Title: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program is a unique Fulbright Scholar Program initiative that is specifically driven by the goals of U.S. institutions of higher education to enhance internationalization efforts on their campuses. Through the S-I-R Program, institutions host a scholar from outside of the United States for a semester or full academic year to teach courses, assist in curriculum development, guest lecture, develop study abroad/exchange partnerships and engage with the campus and the local community.”
Amount: Fulbright grant benefits are provided directly to the individual Scholar, disbursed by IIE and include round-trip international air travel, a monthly stipend, a monthly allowance for up to two dependents, and initial settling-in and professional allowances. IIE will issue the DS2019 form in support of J-visa sponsorship.
Funding Agency: Herb Block Foundation
Title: Encouraging Citizen Involvement
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due June 1, 2022; If invited, full proposals due July 14, 2022
Purpose: “The Herb Block Foundation seeks to help ensure a responsible, responsive democratic government through citizen involvement. Proposals may focus on citizen education and greater voter participation in the electoral process. All projects must be nonpartisan and may not involve lobbying for specific legislation or candidates.”
Amount: $5,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC)
Application Deadline: June 15, 2022 for Conference Proposals; August 1, 2022 for Research Proposals
Purpose: “The PAC program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide-range of topic areas related to typical human behavior with particular focus on perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. Central research topics for consideration by the program include (but are not limited to) vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, written and spoken language, spatial cognition, motor control, categorization, reasoning, and concept formation.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS)
Application Deadline: July 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Leading Culture Change through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS) program aims to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the biological sciences broadly by leveraging the leadership, broad reach, and unique ability of professional societies to create culture change in the life sciences.”
Amount: Evaluation and Design Awards are $500,000; Implementation Awards are up to $2,000,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Linguistics
Application Deadline: July 15, 2022
Purpose: “Supports research on human language — encompassing investigations of the properties of individual human languages and natural language in general — and the intersections of linguistics with cognition, society and other areas of science.”
Amount: Standard NSF Program Grant
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2022
Archaeology and Archaeometry – July 1 and December 20 annually
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2022
Biological Anthropology – July 20 and Jan 20 annually
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sept & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sept 1-30, 2022
Cultural Anthropology – Aug 15 and Jan 15 annually
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 16, 2022
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Mathematical Biology – Aug 20-Sept 5, 2022
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 25, 2022
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence – Jul 13, 2022
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – Sept 30, 2022
Security and Preparedness – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Smart & Connected Communities – proposals accepted anytime
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Sociology – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 8, 2023
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2022 for CMI, CLP, ECS and MSN; Sept 30, 2022 for CAT, CSDM-A, CSDM-B, CTMC, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov 21 and 23, 2022
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Feb 22 annually
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 16, 2022
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Sep 14, 2022
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – May 10, 2022
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) – Jul 13, 2022
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 30, 2022
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 24, 2022
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 12, 2022
Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science – Nov 10, 2022
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Introduction to the WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include WSU Office of Research resources and contact, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding, project budgeting and grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
See the list of upcoming workshops and sign up to attend
Florida Atlantic University: Research in Action: Discover How Machines See Video: March 17, 2022
Imagine a world where machines could generate real-time descriptions of videos for those unable to see it, similar to the way it currently generates live captions on platforms like Zoom and YouTube. Hari Kalva, Ph.D., is shaping that future by creating technology that restructures human and machine interaction relative to video. Join Dr. Kalva as he discusses: New video technologies advancing machine processing; International standards for supporting consumers and artificial intelligence applications; and Patent pending video compression technology that will power video streaming services in the future.
Register for Research in Action Workshop
FBI Webinar - Helping U.S. Academic Institutions Safeguard Collaborative Environments and Critical Research in the Space Sector: March 21, 2022
The FBI and its partners at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation (COE CST) will host a webinar for U.S.-based academic and research institutions affiliated with the COE CST and other FBI/FAA/Government partnerships in the space sector. This event is open to researchers, university administrators, and security professionals from across the United States. The goal of this event will be to explore the importance of protecting critical space systems research, both from an institutional and national security perspective, from bad actors who may seek to exploit academic environments.
Register for FBI Webinar on protecting research
Workshop: Free Computing Tools for Researchers and Instructors: BeoShock HPC: March 22, 2022: 11am – 12noon, RSC Gridley Room 301
Please join Dr. Terrance Figy and Kyle Hutson as they discuss various software and hardware tools available for researchers and instructors. You will learn about research computing tools available at WSU and the upcoming access WSU’s BeoShock HPC will have to the Open Science Grid.
Email terrance.figy@wichita.edu with questions prior to the event.
Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission Wichita Region Community Engagement Session: March 22, 2022
KCAIC is in the process of engaging communities throughout Kansas in the creation of a strategic plan focused on developing creative and cultural resources as an essential catalyst for innovation and community revitalization. To best develop and deploy resources for public good and social impact, a successful plan will re-imagine the place culture holds in Kansas communities; expand the role the arts play in achieving local priorities; build and support statewide infrastructure for the creative sector; and outline broad, high-impact strategies that Kansans see as necessary for individuals and communities to thrive.
Register for the KCAIC Session
National Science Foundation (NSF) – New Approaches to Representing Women in Science: March 22, 2022
A dialogue between historians of science Leila McNeill and Anna Reser, co-founders of the independent magazine “Lady Science” and co-authors of “Forces of Nature: The Women Who Changed Science,” and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, a multidisciplinary artist known for portraiture projects, including “Beyond Curie.” Lacey Baradel, science historian at the National Portrait Gallery, will moderate the conversation. This conversation will examine recent approaches to representing women in the history of science through portraiture and biography. Specifically, it will explore the challenge of subverting established historical narratives and defining women’s participation in the history of science. Additional topics include the role of collaboration in producing and consuming these histories; the use of new technologies and media platforms; and efforts to identify and engage specific audiences.
PCORI Engagement Awards Applicant Office Hours: March 23, 2022
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for three funding opportunities through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program that funds projects that build communities ready to engage in patient-centered outcomes research and comparative clinical effectiveness research. An applicant office hours session will be held on March 23 and the submission deadline for LOIs is April 4, 2022.
Attend PCORI Applicant Office Hours
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: March 24, April 28, May 26, June 30, 2022
Hanover Research is offering a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers to develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on March 24, 2022 is titled “Funding Landscape for Arts and Humanities” and the webinar on April 28, 2022 is titled “Fact or Fiction: NSF CAREER.”
Register for Hanover Workshop on Funding Landscape for Arts and Humanities
NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop: Junior Faculty to apply by March 28, 2022 (Event is May 11-13, 2022)
The 2022 NSF ENG CAREER Workshop will be held VIRTUALLY May 11-13, 2022, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Eastern each day. The Workshop aims to provide junior faculty who plan to submit a CAREER Award proposal to a program in NSF's Directorate for Engineering (ENG) with a CAREER proposal review experience and a forum in which they can interact with NSF Program Directors and recent NSF CAREER awardees. NOTE – Junior Faculty who are interested in being part of the mock review activities need to apply by March 28, 2022. Most other sessions will be open to everyone.
Save the Date for NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop
Kansas NSF EPSCoR 2022 Annual Research Symposium: March 30, 2022
This full day event will feature talks by faculty and students investigating microbiomes of aquatic, plant, and soil systems (MAPS). We will also commemorate Kansas NSF EPSCOR's 30 years of achievements in research, education and workforce development.
Register for KS NSF EPSCoR Meeting
Office of Research Workshop: Writing Proposals: March 31, 2022 at 1pm
Fran Cook of the WSU Office of Research will discuss the basics of proposal writing for grants. The workshop will be held via zoom.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to this workshop.
Office of Research Workshop: Using Pivot to Search for Funding: April 5, 2022 at 3pm
Fran Cook of the WSU Office of Research will demonstrate tips and tricks for using Pivot to search for funding opportunities. The workshop will be held via zoom. Please sign up for a Pivot account in advance so that you may practice searching Pivot during the workshop.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to this workshop or to request instructions for creating a Pivot account.
NSF: CyberTraining (NSF 22-574) Webinar: April 7, 2022
We will review the CyberTraining solicitation (NSF-22-574), including all three project classes, and the priorities of the participating divisions. We will also have Q&A.
Register for NSF CyberTraining webinar
WSU Information Security: Privacy & Security Training: April 12, 2022 and May 10, 2022; 4:00-5:00pm in RSC Room 203 (Lancelot)
Gina Riggs and Mark Rodee offer WSU Privacy and Security Training monthly on the second Tuesday of every month. Learn how to prevent, detect and respond to information security and privacy concerns.
Email informationsecurity@wichita.edu with questions.
Princeton GPU Hackathon 2022: Applications Due April 13, 2022; Virtual Event June 1 and June 6-8, 2022
GPU Hackathons provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes under the guidance of expert mentors from National Labs, Universities and Industry leaders in a collaborative environment. The Princeton GPU Hackathon is a multi-day event designed to help teams accelerate their own codes on GPUs using a programming model, or machine learning framework of their choice. All fields are welcomed, from astrophysics to machine learning to genomics. Although Princeton and Princeton-area teams will be given priority, a Princeton affiliation is not required.
SBIR/STTR Deep Dive Session: NIH, FDA, CDC: April 14, 2022
The National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control SBIR/STTR programs invest over 1 billion dollars into health and life science companies that are creating innovative technologies that align with NIH/FDA/CDC’s mission to improve health and save lives. A key objective is to translate promising technologies to the private sector and enable life-saving innovations to reach consumer markets.
Register for DHHS SBIR/STTR Deep Dive Session
NSF IIS Office Hours: Getting the Most Out of Your Panel Experience, and Writing Your Best Reviews: May 19, 2022
The IIS Office Hours are for researchers interested in learning about programs and policies in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) at NSF. Office Hours are designed to give current and potential investigators a window into IIS. Each session will feature a topic of interest to a diverse group of researchers. Attendance at office hours is voluntary and designed to help investigators gain information that can help them strengthen their proposals. Short summaries will be posted after each session. Sessions will be closed-captioned. Speakers at this event will be Dan Cosley and Andruid Kerne, Human-Centered Computing.
NSF Event: Getting the Most Out of Your Panel Experience, and Writing Your Best Reviews
XSEDE Courses
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a virtual collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation that facilitates free, customized access to advanced digital resources, consulting, training, and mentorship. XSEDE helps the nation's most creative minds discover breakthroughs and solutions for some of the world's greatest scientific challenges. Upcoming events include “Parallel Computing Concepts” on January 20, 2022.
Check for upcoming courses on the XSEDE Course Calendar
Congratulations to those who received grants in March! Please help the WSU community stay informed by forwarding any notices of funding opportunities and/or training sessions to research@wichita.edu for inclusion in the next newsletter. Good luck to all of you in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
KANSAS PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
PI/Department: Teresa Bennett, Procurement Technical Assist Center
Sponsor: Defense Logistics Agency
Amount: $560,282
FRICTION STIR PROCESSING INDUSTRY/UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTER MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Amount: $35,000
FY 2021 FEDERAL PROJECT SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS GRANT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Department of Justice
Amount: $167,483
ENGINEERING A MICROCHIP FOR COMBINATORIAL STUDIES IN CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
PI/Department: Sindhu Preetham Burugupally, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: Flossie E West Memorial Trust
Amount: $13,211
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CIF: SMALL: NOT ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET: AUTHORITY DISTRIBUTION FOR RESILIENCE AGAINST COMPROMISED NODES IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
PI/Department: Remi Chou, School of Computing
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $300,000
LITHIUM BATTERY TESTING
PI/Department: Nicholas Conquest, NIAR-Environmental Test Lab
Co-PI/Department: John Rehard, NIAR-Environmental Test Lab
Sponsor: Sierra Nevada Corporation / Department of Defense
Amount: $287,968
FIESTAS: LATINX CELEBRATIONS IN WESTERN KANSAS
PI/Department: Rocio Del Aguila, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit
Co-PIs/Departments: Jose Navarro-Serrano, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit | Hugo Perez Trejo, Strategic Engagement & Planning | Jay Price, History and Geography
Sponsor: Library of Congress
Amount: $50,000
COMMUNITY SERVICE GRANT (CSG) FY 2022
PI/Department: Debra Fraser, KMUW
Sponsor: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Amount: $135,528
ANNABEL DAOU: DECLARATION
PI/Department: Ksenya Gurshtein, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce / Natl Endowment for the Arts
Amount: $4,810
EIJA-LIISA AHTILA'S ANNUNCIATION/BRIDGE
PI/Department: Ksenya Gurshtein, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Sponsor: American-Scandinavian Foundation
Amount: $2,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY WIND TUNNEL TESTING
PI/Department: John Laffen, NIAR-Wind & Water Tunnel
Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University / US Navy
Amount: $52,290
WIND TUNNEL OCCUPANCY SBIR PHASE II
PI/Department: John Laffen, NIAR-Wind & Water Tunnel
Sponsor: Acellent Technologies Inc / US Airforce
Amount: $22,410
MECHANICAL AND TESTING SERVICES
PI/Department: Matthew Opliger, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems / US Army Contracting Command
Amount: $27,684
COMMUNITY OUTREACH - FIRST AMENDMENT
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Co-PI/Department: Tracee Friess, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Sponsor: Department of Transportation-Kansas
Amount: $198,413
MANUFACTURING OF CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITES FOR HYPERSONIC APPLICATIONS (MOC3HA)
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Co-PIs/Department: Rachael Andrulonis, NIAR-Composites & Structures | Matthew Opliger, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Battelle Memorial Institute / Department of Defense
Amount: $303,780
MODELING FOR AFFORDABLE, SUSTAINABLE COMPOSITES
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Co-PI/Department: Waruna Seneviratne, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $28,750
KANSAS CHILDREN’S CABINET AND TRUST FUND EVALUATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund
Amount: $465,765
PROGRAM EVALUATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Sedgwick County Division Of Finance / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $50,000
WICHITA COALITION FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AMENDMENT 2
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Children & Families / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $19,000
EDUCATION RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMER OUTREACH (YEAR 2)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse-Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $664,226
QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Sedgwick County Division Of Finance / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $30,000
ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF GRANT AND CONTRACT PROCESS IMPROVEMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING PLAN
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Children & Families
Amount: $25,000
#WESUPPORTU PREVENTING SUBSTANCE ABUSE / BLUE WINDOW COLLABORATION
PI/Department: Marci Young, Counseling & Testing Center
Sponsor: WhitworthBallou LLC
Amount: $15,000
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized searching please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Title: State Maternal Health Innovation & Data Capacity Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by Friday, April 22, 2022 at 12noon in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by May 13, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by June 13, 2022.
Purpose: “This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the State Maternal Health Innovation (MHI) and Data Capacity Program. The purpose of this program is to support state capacity to improve maternal health and address maternal health disparities through quality services, a skilled workforce, enhanced data quality and capacity, and innovative programming that aims to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM). The program addresses the high rates of these adverse maternal health outcomes by engaging public health professionals, providers, payers, and consumers to implement evidence-based interventions and policy changes that address critical gaps in and needs for services within the following categories: Direct clinical care, Workforce training, Maternal health data enhancements, and Community engagement.”
Amount: $1,000,000
Funding Agency: University of Florida, pending NSF funding
Application Deadline: April 26, 2022; application to attend workshop must also include brief email of support from department head, academic mentor or senior collaborator.
Purpose: “The University of Florida, in collaboration with the NSF Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), will be hosting a workshop for new and future Principal Investigators. New researchers, assistant professors, and exceptional postdocs considering academic careers are encouraged to apply. Investigators from underrepresented groups in STEM are especially encouraged to apply. The main goal of the workshop is in two-fold: (1) to provide prospective Principal Investigators who have just received their first award or who are considering applying for funding from the MPS programs with valuable information and advice on the policies, procedures, and opportunities available at NSF, (2) to train a pool of future reviewers and encourage volunteering to review as a way to learn about NSF process. In addition to informational presentations on various topics relevant to the future PI’s, each participant will write a mock proposal in advance and will go through full panel review processes in breakout sessions. Workshop will be held June 13 – 14, 2022 at the Westin Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia.”
Amount: Workshop attendance, hotel lodging for up to three nights, meals, networking reception and travel reimbursement of up to $200.
Funding Agency: Multi-Arts Production Fund (MAP Fund)
Title: 2022 Grants Cycle
Application Deadline: April 28, 2022
Purpose: “MAP’s 2022 grant cycle will provide grants of $30,000 to 85 new, live performance projects across all regions of the United States. Anyone may apply on behalf of an eligible new, live performance project that connects with MAP’s mission. The person(s) who create the application (“primary contact” in Submittable) may be an individual artist, ensemble representative, producer, manager, agent, or presenting representative. We expect that all artists have consented to their presence in the proposal, and that the primary contact will share all subsequent communications with the artist(s). MAP aims to make the application process as supported as possible, offering phone call, email, and project description support.”
Amount: $30,000
Funding Agency: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Title: 2022 Inclusive Ecosystems RFP
Application Deadline: April 29, 2022
Purpose: “The Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems RFP intends to engage researchers and communities in examination of how structural issues shape equity and opportunity in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Specifically, we solicit research projects that explore structures and systems that shape entrepreneurial ecosystems in the four Heartland states — Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Project teams will be asked to develop research-driven case studies that analyze the structures that comprise equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems, and they will also work with Foundation staff to develop templates and tools for assessing equity in ecosystems.”
Amount: By design, there are no set limits on the grant amount that can be requested.
Funding Agency: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)
Title: Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Application Deadline: Pre-Application due April 29, 2022; Full Applications due May 27, 2022
Purpose: “The vision of the FY22 PRMRP is to improve the health, well-being, and care of all military Service Members, Veterans, and Beneficiaries, and its mission is to encourage, identify, select, and manage medical research projects of clear scientific merit that lead to impactful advances in military health care. The PRMRP challenges the scientific and clinical communities to address the FY22 PRMRP Topic Areas with original ideas that foster new directions along the entire spectrum of research and patient care. The program seeks applications in laboratory, clinical, behavioral, epidemiological, and other areas of research to advance knowledge in disease etiology; improve prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life for those affected by a relevant disease or condition; and develop and validate clinical practice or public health guidelines. The proposed research must be relevant to active-duty Service Members, Veterans, military beneficiaries, and/or the American public.”
Amount: $1,600,000 for single PI over four years: $2,000,000 for collaborating organizations
Funding Agency: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Title: Grants for New Treatments or Cures for Cancer
Application Deadline: Three application cycles per year: April 30, 2022, August 31, 2022 and December 15, 2022
Purpose: “The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period which will allow establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers, or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. It is anticipated that this early-stage funding by the Foundation may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified.”
Amount: By design, there are no set limits on the grant amount that can be requested.
Funding Agency: The Kerr Foundation
Title: Challenge Grants: Education, Health, Human Services & Arts and Culture
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due April 30, 2022
Purpose: “It is the policy of The Kerr Foundation, Inc. to identify and support 501(c)(3) organizations and institutions that provide new or enhanced opportunities for those within granting areas, particularly the young. We believe this is best accomplished in the areas of education, health, cultural development and community service. While preference is given to Oklahoma organizations and institutions, we recognize those located outside the state and region can also have a beneficial impact on the economic, social and cultural growth and development of Oklahoma. Therefore, we will also accept grant requests from Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas.”
Amount: Grants generally range form $1,000 to $50,000 and require dollar for dollar cost match.
Funding Agency: Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF)
Title: General Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: Pre-Proposals accepted May 1, 2022 and December 1, 2022
Purpose: “The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funding reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices.” Note, agricultural wastes (that aren’t handled by the waste industry), nuclear waste, and land applied wastewater treatment sludge are generally not included in the definition of solid waste as used in the RFP.
Amount: $15,000-$500,000 with the average grant amount in recent years being $160,000
***LIMITED*** Funding Agency: Brain Research Foundation
Title: Scientific Innovations Award
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one nomination, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 2, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by May 23, 2022. Letters of Intent with WSU nomination (if selected) are due June 23, 2022.
Purpose: “Brain Research Foundation is inviting eligible US academic institutions to nominate one senior faculty member (Associate and Full Professor) to submit a Letter of Intent for the Scientific Innovations Award (SIA). Brain Research Foundation’s Scientific Innovations Award Program provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neuroscience. This funding mechanism is designed to support creative, exploratory, cutting edge research in well-established research laboratories, under the direction of established investigators.”
Amount: $150,000
Funding Agency: United Engineering Foundation
Title: UEF Grants Program
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due May 2, 2022; if invited, full proposals to be due August 1, 2022
Purpose: “UEF provides funding to proposals and programs whose chief purpose is to advance engineering for the welfare of humanity. Proposals must be consistent with the mission of UEF and priorities for giving, which include programs that focus on the following areas: 1) Diversity, 2) Kindergarten -12th Grade Education, 3) Engineering Ethics, Safety, Security and Leadership. Preference is given to: Proposals for programs that are innovative and aim to integrate multiple fields and subspecialties of engineering; Proposals for programs that include outreach to engage the community; Collaborative proposals submitted on behalf of a group; and Proposals that specify that grant funds will not be used to offset existing staff salaries.”
Amount: The UEF gives between 5 – 10 grants per year totaling nearly $800,000.
Funding Agency: Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission
Title: Kansas Field Arts Forum
Application Deadline: Online interest form due May 2, 2022
Purpose: “The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) is partnering with M12 Studio to develop a new three-week program aimed at emerging practitioners interested in any of the following fields: Arts & Ecology, Social and Environmental Art, Creative Placemaking, and New Rural Arts. The Kansas Field Arts Forum (KFAF) will take place June 15 - July 2, 2022 with generous support of room, board, and classroom space from Pratt Community College, community programming support from the Vernon Filley Museum of Art, and lecturer support from Art of the Rural. Teaching faculty will be comprised of M12 members, a variety of regional and statewide experts, as well as virtual lecturers from across the country. The KFAF program will address a range of social, ecological and culturally significant topics through site visits, guided activities, and facilitated dialogue at locations across the High Plains and Tablelands of southern Kansas. Up to 15 participants will be accepted into this pilot program year, with free tuition apart from a $100 program fee. Individuals interested in participating should visit the program webpage to learn more (faculty and program updates are ongoing) and complete the online interest form by Monday, May 2.”
Amount: Free tuition for forum; however, $100 program fee still required
Funding Agency: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation
Title: Grants – 600 applications accepted quarterly
Application Deadline: May 4, 2022; August 17, 2022, October 6, 2022
Purpose: “Our Mission is to impact the lifesaving capabilities, and the lives of local heroes and their communities by providing lifesaving equipment and prevention education tools to first responders, non-profits and public safety organizations. All requests must fall within our funding guidelines via firehousesubsfoundation.org/about-us/funding-areas.”
Amount: $15,000-$35,000
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 4, 2022
Purpose: “The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Race, Ethnicity & Immigration supports innovative investigator-initiated research on the social, economic, and political effects of the changing racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population, including the transformation of communities and ideas about what it means to be American. We are especially interested in research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, gender and legal status in outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites. RSF encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods that both strengthen the data, theory, and methods of social science research and foster a better understanding of how to foster the ideals of a pluralist society. Proposals may focus on any one or more of the issues—race, and/or ethnicity, and/or immigration.”
Amount: Trustee Grants are generally capped at $175,000
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Future of Work
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 4, 2022
Purpose: “The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on the Future of Work supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for less- and moderately skilled workers and their families. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. We are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers, today and in the future.”
Amount: Trustee Grants are generally capped at $175,000
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Behavioral Science & Decision Making in Context
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 4, 2022
Purpose: “The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context. This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.”
Amount: Trustee Grants are generally capped at $175,000
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Social, Political & Economic Inequality
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 4, 2022
Purpose: “The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including educational access, job opportunities, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations. We seek innovative investigator-initiated research that will expand our understanding of social, political, and economic inequalities and the mechanisms by which they influence the lives of individuals and families. We welcome projects that explore the relevance of economic, racial, ethnic, age, gender, immigration, residence, or other statuses for the distribution of social, political and economic outcomes within and across these groups. RSF priorities do not include analyses of health or mental health outcomes or health behaviors as these are priorities for other funders. For the same reason, RSF seldom supports studies focused on educational processes or curricular issues but does prioritize analyses of inequities in educational attainment or student performance.”
Amount: Trustee Grants are generally capped at $175,000
Funding Agency: National Academies Gulf Research Program
Title: Early-Career Research Fellowships
Application Deadline: May 4, 2022
Purpose: “The Environmental Protection and Stewardship track goal focuses on advancing scientific knowledge and its application to predict and prepare for ecosystem changes in the Gulf of Mexico and its coastal zones as the region navigates a changing climate and energy transition.”
Amount: An award of $76,000 is paid to each fellow’s institution in the form of a two-year grant.
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
Application Deadline: May 4, 2022
Purpose: “This program supports research on strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to produce useful research evidence, what it takes to get research used, and what happens when research is used. We welcome letters of inquiry for studies that pursue one of these broad aims.”
Amount: Major Research Grants: $100,000-$1,000,000; Secondary Data Analysis: $100,000-$300,000; Officers’ Research Grants: $25,000-$50,000
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 4, 2022 or August 3, 2022
Purpose: “This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.”
Amount: Major Research Grants: $100,000-$600,000 over two-three years
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Title: Conference Grants
Application Deadline: May 5, 2022
Purpose: “The Conference Grant Program provides support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convenings around important issues in education research. This program is intended to bring together researchers, community members, practitioners, policymakers, and other important collaborators whose expertise, substantive knowledge and practice, theoretical insight, or methodological expertise can be engaged in ways that help to build upon and advance education research. We encourage applicants to think creatively about how convenings can expand our understanding of research methods and how new innovative research methods can impact educational research that is grounded in advancing racial equity.”
Amount: Up to $50,000
Funding Agency: Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Application Deadline: May 6, 2022
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)/Notice of Available Funding is for eligible non-profit organizations to submit proposals to deliver workplace safety and health training to eligible employers and workers on the topic of infectious diseases, including COVID19. Grant activities support conducting training on infectious diseases, including COVID-19 in a timely and efficient manner. Therefore, grantees must initially begin using existing training materials and guidance documents in order to deliver training as soon as practical following award. During the performance period, grantees may develop and use new tailored training materials (following OSHA approval of the new materials).”
Amount: $160,000
Funding Agency: Consulate of Mexico in Kansas City, with the support of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME)
Title: IME Becas (Scholarships) 2022 – Matching Funds
Application Deadline: May 6, 2022
Purpose: “IME-Becas aims to offer economic resources to Mexican students currently enrolled in an academic plan offered by social organizations/education institutions in the United States in one of the following two modalities: Higher Education or Adult Education.”
Amount: Up to $3,000 will be awarded, cost match is required.
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: NIJ FY22 National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline May 9, 2022; Just Grants deadline May 23, 2022.
Purpose: “With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks proposals for funding to support and enhance the National Juvenile Justice Data Analysis Program (NJJDAP). The NJJDAP produces vital statistical information to the field regarding juvenile risk behaviors, juvenile victimization, juvenile offending, and the juvenile justice system’s response to law-violating behavior. The successful applicant will work collaboratively with NIJ and OJJDP to make significant advances in the way these data are analyzed and made available through new and innovative dissemination strategies and tools that facilitate access to, and use of, juvenile justice-related data to inform juvenile justice policy and practice at the federal, state, and local levels. NIJ anticipates making one award.”
Amount: $2,400,000
*** LIMITED*** Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Scholars Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit one application per college, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 11, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by June 3, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due July 6, 2022.
Purpose: “The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Scholars must select one focus are: Reducing Inequality or Improving the Use of Research Evidence.”
Amount: Each year, four to six Scholars are selected and each receives up to $350,000, distributed over five years. Awards begin July 1 and are made to the applicant’s institution.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)
Application Deadline: May 12, 2022 for Phase I; October 21, 2022 for Phase II
Purpose: “NSF is introducing a new program called “Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems” (POSE). The purpose of the program is to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded research projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-sourced software, hardware or data platforms that catalyze further innovation. In some cases, an open-source product is widely adopted and forms the basis for a self-sustaining open-source ecosystem (OSE) comprises a distributed community of developers and a broad base of users across academia, industry and government. The goal of the POSE program is to fund new OSE managing organizations, each responsible for the creation and maintenance of infrastructure needed for efficient and secure operation of an OSE based around a specific open-source product or class of products. The early and intentional formation of such managing organizations is expected to ensure more secure open-source products, increased coordination of developer contributions, and a more focused route to impactful technologies.”
Amount: $300,000 for Phase I; $1,500,000 for Phase II
Funding Agency: AstraZeneca
Title: ACT on Health Equity Community Solutions Challenge
Application Deadline: May 13, 2022
Purpose: “AstraZeneca recognizes health starts in our homes, schools and communities. The ACT on Health Equity: Community Solutions Challenge supports community-based, nonprofit organizations that are advancing health equity among underserved US communities through innovative health, wellbeing, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs at the local and regional level.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: The Gerber Foundation
Title: Research Award
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due May 15, 2022 and November 15, 2022
Purpose: “The mission of The Gerber Foundation, to enhance the quality of life of infants and young children in nutrition, care, and development, has remained the guiding beacon for Foundation giving throughout its history. Accordingly, priority is given to projects whose primary beneficiaries are young children from birth to three years of age.”
Amount: $30,000 for Novice Researchers; up to $350,000 all others
Funding Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Title: Food and Health Research Using the Consumer Food Data System
Application Deadline: Brief Proposals (including signed third-party agreements) due May 16, 2022 at 2pm CST; if invited, Full Proposals will be due August 4, 2022
Purpose: “The RWJF and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service (ERS) are announcing a call for proposals (CFP) for researchers who will use one or more restricted-use data assets from the CFDS. We seek to develop a cohort of researchers from diverse academic disciplines and institutions who will produce policy-relevant research on food policy; food retail markets; consumer behaviors related to food purchases and diet; and USDA nutrition assistance programs. It is our hope that the resulting research evidence will inform RWJF’s goal of creating equitable access to nutritious food.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Office (ARO), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Title: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
Application Deadline: Optional (Strongly Recommended) White Papers due May 16, 2022, Full Proposals will be due September 9, 2022
Purpose: “Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI) efforts involve teams of researchers investigating high priority topics and opportunities that intersect more than one traditional technical discipline. For many military problems this multidisciplinary approach serves to stimulate innovations, accelerate research progress and expedite transition of results into naval applications.”
Amount: $1,250,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of State
Title: U.S. Mission to China Public Engagement Grants
Application Deadline: May 16, 2022
Purpose: “The Public Diplomacy Sections of the U.S. Mission to China (Embassy Beijing and Consulates General Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, and Shenyang) of the United States Department of State announce an open competition for organizations and individuals to submit applications to carry out programs in support of activities that forge and/or strengthen connections between the people of China and the people of the United States.”
Amount: $50,000 - $150,000
Funding Agency: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)
Title: Idea Development Award – Autism Research Program
Application Deadline: Pre-Application due May 23, 2022; if invited, Full Applications due August 18, 2022
Purpose: “Applications to the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Autism Research Program (ARP) are being solicited by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) using delegated authority provided by United States Code, Title 10, Section 2358 (10 USC 2358). The ARP was initiated in 2007 to provide support for research of exceptional scientific merit and innovation with high impact that focuses on autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The ARP’s vision is to improve the lives of individuals with ASD now, and its mission is to promote innovative research that advances the understanding of ASD and leads to improved outcomes.”
Amount: $550,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Research Security Training for the United States Research Community
Application Deadline: May 23, 2022
Purpose: “With the goal of strengthening research security in the U.S., NSF is working in partnership with three other federal research funding agencies to find a balanced approach to research security. This effort includes the development and implementation of training—to recipients of federal research funding—in best practices to optimize research security. This training is an essential step toward mitigating foreign government risks and threats to U.S. government-funded research and may be used to fulfill the research security program requirement in NSPM-33.”
Amount: $1,500,000
Funding Agency: Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
Title: Title X Family Planning Research Grants
Application Deadline: May 24, 2022
Purpose: “The primary focus of OASH is leading America to healthier lives, especially for those who are most vulnerable, including those who have suffered historic disparities. In support of this vision, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) promotes health across the reproductive lifespan through innovative, evidence-based adolescent health and family planning programs, services, strategic partnerships, evaluation, and research. OPA prioritizes advancing equity for all, including people of color and others who are in need of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, and are uninsured or underinsured. OPA administers the Title X family planning services program, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, and the Embryo Adoption Awareness (EAA) program. OPA advises the Secretary of HHS and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of topics, including adolescent health, family planning, sterilization, and other population issues. We invite applications from public or private nonprofit entities to conduct research or analyses that will lead to feasible and effective strategies to increase equitable access to quality Title X family planning services among clients in need of family planning and sexual and reproductive health services.”
Amount: $200,000-$750,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Title: Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due May 26, 2022
Purpose: “On April 12, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER) funding opportunity, which will award $25 million in funding for projects to enable communities to utilize solar and solar-plus-storage to prevent disruptions in power caused by extreme weather and other events, and to rapidly restore electricity if it goes down. Projects will foster engagement and ongoing communication among multiple stakeholders such as utilities, municipal planners, emergency responders, community groups, and others, especially in underserved communities located in areas vulnerable to extreme events causing frequent energy and power service disruptions. In addition, projects will develop and demonstrate rapid energy restoration technologies based on the community resilience plan in order to increase the durability of photovoltaic (PV) systems.” Note, informational webinar for this opportunity will be held on April 27, 2022.
Amount: Varies by topic; $500,000–$3,000,000; Cost share required.
Funding Agency: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
Title: OVC FY 2022 Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline May 26, 2022; Just Grants deadline June 2, 2022.
Purpose: “OVC seeks to provide funding to organizations that demonstrate innovative strategies to create, expand, or enhance the use of technology to interact directly with crime victims, improve the quality of services, and improve the accessibility and responsiveness of victim service organizations.” Please note, there will be a pre-application webinar for this opportunity on April 26, 2022.
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Title: FY 2022 Connect and Protect: Law Enforcement Behavioral Health Response Program
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline May 27, 2022; Just Grants deadline June 1, 2022.
Purpose: “Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to support law enforcement-behavioral health cross-system collaboration to improve public health and safety responses and outcomes for individuals with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.”
Amount: $550,000
*** LIMITED*** Funding Agency: W. M. Keck Foundation
Title: Scholars Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two proposals (one medical and one science & engineering), Limited Submission Concept Papers must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 31, 2022 at 12 noon, in case an internal competition is needed. WSU may choose up to four medical and four science & engineering Concept Papers to submit to Keck for consultation. You will be informed if your Concept Paper has been chosen to be reviewed by Keck consultants by June 15, 2022, and you will have a chance to finalize your Concept Papers for Keck consultation review (if selected) by June 30, 2022. Please email proposals@wichita.edu for a list of requirements for the internal WSU Limited Submission Concept Papers.
Purpose: “The Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas: 1) medical research and 2) science and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. Past grants have been awarded to major universities, independent research institutions, and medical schools to support pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$2,000,000.
Funding Agency: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due May 31, 2022
Purpose: “The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. The Foundation provides funding in the following areas: Early Childhood Welfare, Early Childhood Education & Play, and Parenting Education.”
Amount: Awarded projects range up to $50,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: May 31, 2022 and November 13, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this initiative is to support research that seeks to (1) understand the underlying mechanisms and (2) test interventions to address and mitigate the impact of health-related misinformation and disinformation on health disparities and the populations that experience health disparities.”
Amount: $500,000 in direct costs
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: May 31, 2022
Purpose: “The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research.”
Amount: $125,000 per year in direct costs
Funding Agency: Fulbright Scholar Program
Title: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program is a unique Fulbright Scholar Program initiative that is specifically driven by the goals of U.S. institutions of higher education to enhance internationalization efforts on their campuses. Through the S-I-R Program, institutions host a scholar from outside of the United States for a semester or full academic year to teach courses, assist in curriculum development, guest lecture, develop study abroad/exchange partnerships and engage with the campus and the local community.”
Amount: Fulbright grant benefits are provided directly to the individual Scholar, disbursed by IIE and include round-trip international air travel, a monthly stipend, a monthly allowance for up to two dependents, and initial settling-in and professional allowances. IIE will issue the DS2019 form in support of J-visa sponsorship.
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Title: Public Health Scholarship Program (PHSP)
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of the PHSP is to strengthen the public health workforce by providing support to organizations to develop scholarship programs that incentivize individuals to pursue training and careers in public health. Through the PHSP, scholarship recipients will gain the requisite knowledge and skills necessary to prevent, prepare for, and respond to recovery activities related to COVID–19, as well as other public health emergencies. Applicants will be required to have an existing public health training program as well as public health partnerships in place, along with a system for scholarship recipients to maintain or be transitioned into employment in public health upon completion of their training. This program will enhance the public health system to meet the core public health functions and the Ten Essential Public Health Services.”
Amount: $1,500,000 over three years
Funding Agency: Horticultural Research Institute
Title: Strategic Grantmaking
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “Horticultural Research Institute only funds research that specifically deals with green industry-related issues. HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. HRI research focuses on the propagation, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of plant material. HRI research strategically focuses on 1) Quantifying Plant Benefits, 2) Gathering Consumer Insights, 3) Creating Innovative Solutions, 4) Producing Practical & Actionable Solutions.”
Amount: Grants are typically between $5,000 and $35,000, although larger awards have been issued.
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 2022
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due June 1, 2022 or October 4, 2022
Purpose: “With this PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA), PCORI aims to fund studies that address high-priority methodological gaps in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and clinical comparative effectiveness research (CER). PCORI seeks to fund projects that address important methodological gaps and lead to improvements in the strength and quality of evidence generated by PCOR/CER studies. For the 2022 Methods PFA, PCORI has identified the following areas as programmatic priorities: 1) Methods to Improve the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Clinical Research, 2) Methods to Improve Study Design, 3) Methods to Support Data Research Networks and 4) Methods Related to Ethical and Human Subjects Protections Issues in PCOR/CER.”
Amount: $750,000 in direct costs over three years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: June 5, 2022 or October 5, 2022
Purpose: “This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) seeks to support research that examines the impact of leveraging health information technology (health IT) to reduce disparities in access to and utilization of health care services, patient-clinician communication, and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities in the U.S.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Title: Air Force Fiscal Year 2023 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Application Deadline: June 6, 2022
Purpose: “The Fiscal Year 2023 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends support for scientists and engineers who have either received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees post 01 April 2015. These scientists and engineers have shown exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.” Proposals must match research areas of interest posted by the Air Force in the recent Broad Agency Announcement.
Amount: Most YIP awards are funded up to $150,000 per year for three years, for a total of $450,000. Exceptional proposals will be considered individually for higher funding levels and/or longer duration.
Funding Agency: Meta Research
Title: 2022 Systems Research Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: June 6, 2022
Purpose: “We strive to build strong collaboration with experts in academia to tackle some of the most challenging problems. While all proposals are welcome, we are especially interested in those addressing fundamental challenges that arise in distributed systems operating at a large scale. Besides the general area of distributed systems, there are three areas that we are particularly interested in partnering with academia to solve: 1) Infrastructure control planes, 2) Service abstractions and efficiency and 3) Global service management.
Amount: $50,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Digital Projects for the Public
Application Deadline: June 8, 2022 (optional draft due May 5, 2022)
Purpose: “The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.”
Amount: $30,000 Discovery Grants; $100,000 Prototyping Grants; $400,000 Production Grants
Funding Agency: Foundation for Child Development
Title: Young Scholars Program
Application Deadline: Mandatory Letter of Intent due June 9, 2022; Full application (if invited) to be due October 13, 2022
Purpose: “The Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce.”
Amount: $180,000 for secondary data analysis focus; $225,000 for primary data collection focus
Funding Agency: Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) – Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH)
Title: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Evaluation and Research Grants
Application Deadline: June 14, 2022
Purpose: “This notice solicits applications for projects that will conduct evaluations or research that would make significant contributions to the mission of the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and to the teen pregnancy prevention, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and family planning fields. OPA will consider evaluation and research projects that explore new questions in teen pregnancy prevention, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and family planning more broadly that improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of these programs for adolescents or young adults, and/or reduce existing disparities. These grants are for projects that can be conducted within one to two years, such as secondary data analyses using existing program and evaluation data or administrative data.”
Amount: $100,000-$400,000
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Title: Community Health Worker Training Program
Application Deadline: June 14, 2022
Purpose: “The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is accepting applications for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Community Health Worker and Health Support Worker Training Program (CHWTP). The purpose of this program is to expand the public health workforce through the training of new Community Health Workers (CHWs) and health support workers and to extend the knowledge and skills of current CHWs and other health support workers. Through this program, HRSA plans to train 13,000 new and current CHWs and other health support workers to support essential public health services and to focus on experiential training and employment through registered apprenticeships and job placements. The CHWTP aims to increase access to care, improve public health emergency response, and address the public health needs of underserved communities.” Note, a webinar about this opportunity will be held on May 11, 2022.
Amount: Up to $3,000,000 over three years
Funding Agency: International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) Americas Foundation
Title: Patrick DeLuca Emerging Researcher Award
Application Deadline: June 15, 2022
Purpose: “The IPEC Emerging Researcher Award will be presented each year to a beginning career scientist post Ph.D. i.e., postdoctoral fellows, research assistant professors and early-stage assistant professors (1 - 2 years following initial appointment as research assistant or assistant professor). Applicants are encouraged from any part of the globe. The award criteria include demonstrated interest in and dedication to the area of excipients in terms of published manuscripts and a research proposal in the area of excipient scientific / technological research. IPEC Foundation is the charitable arm of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas and is a 501(c)3 organization. The drugs of tomorrow cannot be developed with yesterday’s excipients and processes. Energize research in excipients through the IPEC Foundation. By supporting research, education, and safety through programs and scholarships, our partners and donors can shape the future of excipients.”
Amount: $15,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program (R03)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022 or October 16, 2022
Purpose: “The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in partnership with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), invites applications for funding to support innovative patient-centered outcomes research small pilot projects in Learning Health Systems (LHS) that evaluate the outcomes of embedded research and evaluate the processes by which embedded research can enhance impact, stakeholder engagement, and other health system-identified outcomes of interest.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Title: AHRQ Small Research Grant Program (R03)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022 or October 16, 2022
Purpose: “This FOA encourages Small Research Grant (R03) applications and expresses AHRQ priority areas of interest for ongoing small research projects. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of health services research projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Application Deadline: June 17, 2022
Purpose: “The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) seeks applications to disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings into innovative, evidence-based interventions to reduce healthcare disparities in chronic health conditions. Applications to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) are required to disseminate and implement PCOR findings across healthcare settings to address disparities in health outcomes and quality for racial and ethnic minority populations and AHRQ priority populations. Interventions must be focused on improving dissemination and implementation of evidence-based strategies, with the specific goal of reducing health and healthcare disparities. Though not limited to the following, areas where evidence-based interventions have demonstrated disparities reduction include: 1. Improving Control and Management of Chronic Conditions including Cardiovascular Disease (CVD); 2. Promoting Improved Cancer and Chronic Condition Screening; and 3. Improving Prenatal Care, Maternal Health, and Infant Mortality.”
Amount: $500,000 per year over three years
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII:NRDZ)
Application Deadline: June 21, 2022
Purpose: “The goal of this Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Radio Dynamic Zones (SII-NRDZ) program is to advance the use of dynamic spectrum sharing. The unifying concept investigated in SII-NRDZ is the radio dynamic zone: an area or volume with automatic spectrum management mechanisms that control electromagnetic energy entering, escaping, or occupying the zone. SII-NRDZ seeks to perform extended (6- to 12-month) field trials of various types of radio dynamic zone spectrum sharing at sites where the field trials will enhance spectrum access for facilities or applications.”
Amount: $500,000-$2,000,000 over three years
Funding Agency: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Title: Research in Transforming Health and Healthcare Systems
Application Deadline: June 24, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of the 2022 RTHS call for proposals is to support policy-relevant, community-engaged research that helps improve the affordability of care for communities most impacted by structural racism, inequities, and discrimination. We seek proposals for research and policy analysis projects that examine the design, implementation, and/or impact of local, state, and/or national policies related to the affordability of high-quality, equitable care. Studies may include people’s ability to: afford health insurance; pay for healthcare services (even with insurance); pay for transportation; childcare; and other services that in turn affect access to medical care. The projects’ goals are to generate timely and useful information for use by policymakers and other decision-makers.” Note – a webinar about this opportunity will be held May 3, 2022.
Amount: $50,000-$350,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two Track 1 proposals and one Track 2 proposal, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by June 30, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by August 15, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by January 19, 2023.
Purpose: “The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to develop next-generation research instruments that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.”
Amount: Track 1: Greater than $100,000 and less than $1,000,000; Track 2: $1,000,000-$4,000,000
Funding Agency: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Title: AAAS Mentor Awards
Application Deadline: Nominations due by June 30, 2022
Purpose: “The two categories of the AAAS Mentor Awards (Lifetime Mentor Award and Mentor Award) both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers. These groups include women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities. Both awards recognize an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies or who has impacted the climate of a department, college, or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies. It is important to indicate in the nomination materials how the nominee’s work resulted in departmental and/or institutional change in terms of the granting of PhDs to underrepresented students. This can be documented not only with quantitative data but may also be demonstrated through the student and colleague letters of support.”
Amount: $5,000
Funding Agency: National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due July 1, 2022
Purpose: “NIHCM Foundation wishes to support innovative investigator-initiated health services research that will advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. Studies must have strong potential to yield insights that can be used to have a positive impact on the U.S. health care system by improving efficiency, quality, access to care or equity. Studies involving direct patient care or clinical, bench-science research are not relevant for this solicitation.”
Amount: Varies, see website for previous awards
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Visual Arts
Application Deadline: July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting visual arts activity—painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, craft, and public art—that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA is interested in supporting contemporary artists and the projects they undertake, such as exhibitions, residencies, publications, commissions, public art works, conservation, documentation, services to the field, and public programs. The NEA is committed to encouraging individual artistic development, experimentation, and dialogue between artists and the public.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Museums
Application Deadline: July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting museum activity that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA assists museums through the support of exhibitions, care of collections, conservation, commissions, public art works, community engagement, education activities, and other museum work. Museum projects funded by the NEA demonstrate artistic excellence and artistic merit in and across a variety of mediums, movements, eras, and cultures.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
***LIMITED*** Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
Title: Summer Stipends
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two nominations, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by July 15, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by August 12, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by September 21, 2022.
Purpose: “The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication. The program works to accomplish this goal by 1) Providing small awards to individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both, and 2) Supporting projects at any stage of development, but especially early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards are most effective.”
Amount: $6,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
Application Deadline: August 12, 2022
Purpose: “ITEST is an applied research and development program with goals to advance the equitable and inclusive integration of technology in the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) from pre-kindergarten through high school. The program’s objective is to support all students’ acquisition of the foundational preparation in STEM disciplines. Preparation for the current and future workforce is increasingly dependent upon the application and use of technology and computing.”
Amount: Depending on type of proposal: $100,000-$5,000,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Application Deadline: August 15, 2022
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages exploratory and developmental research to better understand the role of social connectedness and/or loneliness in prevention, treatment and recovery from substance use disorders (SUDs). Research may use a variety of approaches, including leveraging existing data sources, survey research, social network analysis, new methods development, feasibility research, etc. Outcomes of interest include any of the following: substance use initiation, escalation, SUD diagnosis, connection to treatment, and engagement or retention in treatment or recovery.”
Amount: Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over the 2-year project period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)
Application Deadline: August 16, 2022
Purpose: “The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences.”
Amount: Varies based on type of funding request
Funding Agency: William T. Grant Foundation
Title: Institutional Challenge Grant
Application Deadline: September 14, 2022
Purpose: “The Institutional Challenge Grant encourages university-based research institutes, schools, and centers to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes.”
Amount: $650,000
Funding Agency: Department of the Navy: Office of Naval Research
Title: Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
Application Deadline: September 30, 2022
Purpose: “This BAA utilizes competitive procedures in accordance with 10 USC 2302(2)(B) for the selection for award of science and technology (S&T) proposals. For purposes of this BAA, S&T includes activities involving basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and, under certain conditions, may include activities involving advanced component development and prototypes. This Announcement is not for the acquisition of technical, engineering, and other types of support services.”
Amount: Varies based on topic, $500,000 award floor
Funding Agency: Department of the Navy: Office of Naval Research
Application Deadline: March 31, 2023; white papers frequently desired.
Purpose: “ONR seeks a broad range of applications for augmenting existing and/or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain and/or cultivate a diverse, world-class Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. The goal of proposed efforts must provide solutions that establish, build, and/or maintain STEM educational pathways and workforce opportunities for diverse U.S. citizens directly relevant to ONR science and technology areas.”
Amount: The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the technology area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected
Funding Agency: DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Title: Nonlinear Optical Cavities for Quantum Networks Fellowship
Application Deadline: None provided
Purpose: “A postdoctoral fellowship is open for an experimental physicist within the Computational and Information Science Directorate (Network Science Division) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Suitable candidates should have a PhD in physics or engineering with a background in quantum optics, integrated photonics, nonlinear optics, or optical cavities. The fellow will lead a research project focused on the design, characterization, and experimental demonstration of nonlinear optical cavities suitable for controlling and manipulating light in quantum networks. Programming experience in MATLAB or a similar language is mandatory. Prior experience with optical pulse shaping, photonic integrated circuits, photonic crystal cavities, or sources/detectors for quantum light will be considered favorably. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with MIT and offers plentiful opportunities for collaboration with other leading universities and government agencies. The primary research location will be the Adelphi Laboratory Center in Adelphi, MD. The fellowship can be renewed yearly up to a total duration of 3 years.”
Amount: Fellowship
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI)
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Full Proposals Accepted Anytime
Purpose: “The Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) program supports fundamental research in geotechnical, structural, materials, architectural, and coastal engineering. The ECI program promotes research that can shape the future of the nation’s physical civil infrastructure and that can contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation, and hazards and disaster resilience. Types of civil infrastructure that the ECI program considers include, but are not limited to, buildings, residential construction, earth and earth retaining structures, and components of flood protection systems; water, waste disposal, and wastewater systems; energy infrastructure (excluding nuclear); and transportation systems (excluding pavements). Both disciplinary and convergent research that can address the challenges of physical civil infrastructure to be resilient and sustainable over its service lifetime are of particular interest. Broader impacts of ECI research include fostering community welfare for an equitable and prosperous nation and promoting environmentally friendly, circular economy policies.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “Through the R&E (Research and Evaluation) program, EDA supports the development of tools, recommendations, and resources that shape Federal economic development policies and inform economic development decision-making. R&E program investments provide critical, cutting-edge research and best practices to regional, state, and local practitioners in the economic development field, thereby enhancing understanding and implementation of economic development concepts throughout the country. EDA also regularly evaluates the impacts and outcomes of its various programs as a means of identifying policy and program modifications that will increase the Agency’s efficiency and effectiveness.”
Amount: In recent years, the average size of R&E and NTA investments has been approximately $350,000, and investments generally range from $200,000 to $500,000. Historically, EDA has funded approximately five R&E projects and three NTA projects per year. EDA anticipates making similar awards in FY 2021-2023, subject to availability of funds. Note, Cost Match is required.
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Letters of Intent accepted on a rolling basis
Purpose: “The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.”
Amount: The Targeted Grant in MPS program provides funding for up to five years. The funding level and duration is flexible and should be appropriate based on the type of support requested in the proposal. There is no recommended or assumed funding level for this program.
Funding Agency: Wallace Global Fund
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Letters of Inquiry accepted anytime
Purpose: “The mission of the Wallace Global Fund is to support people-powered movements to advance democracy and rights and to fight for a healthy planet.”
Amount: Varies – see website for previously funded projects
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2022
Archaeology and Archaeometry – July 1 and December 20 annually
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2022
Biological Anthropology – July 20 and Jan 20 annually
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biophotonics – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sept & Oct - varies based on discipline
Computational & Data-Enabled Science and Engineering – Sept 1-30, 2022
Cultural Anthropology – Aug 15 and Jan 15 annually
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 16, 2022
Economics – Aug 18 and Jan 18 annually
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Engineering of Biomedical Systems – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Sustainability – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Mathematical Biology – Aug 20-Sept 5, 2022
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 25, 2022
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence – Jul 13, 2022
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – Sept 30, 2022
Security and Preparedness – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Smart & Connected Communities – proposals accepted anytime
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Sociology – Jan 15 and Aug 15 annually
Statistics – Dec 1-15 annually
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) – accepted anytime
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Large)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – accepted anytime
Computer Science for All (CS for All) – Feb 8, 2023
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Oct 31, 2022 for CMI, CLP, ECS and MSN; Sept 30, 2022 for CAT, CSDM-A, CSDM-B, CTMC, SYN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov 21 and 23, 2022
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Feb 22 annually
Expeditions in Computing – Varies by topic
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 16, 2022
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Sep 14, 2022
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – May 10, 2022
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) – Jul 13, 2022
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program – Aug 30, 2022
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 24, 2022
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 12, 2022
Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science – Nov 10, 2022
EDUCATION / TRAINING
Introduction to the WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include WSU Office of Research resources and contact, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding, project budgeting and grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
See the list of upcoming workshops and sign up to attend
National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and the National Science Board (NSB) Webinar: Resources for State-Level Science and Engineering Decision-Making: April 21 2022
“Join panelists from the National Science Board (NSB) and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) for a discussion on the importance of state-level data for researchers, program managers and decision-makers. The event will be held online on April 21 from 2 -3 p.m. Eastern time. Registration is required to attend. We will explore the powerful tools available for researching U.S. state trends and indicators in science and engineering education, workforce, research and development, patents and publications, and knowledge-intensive industries. State legislators, colleges and universities, and local governing bodies are invited to learn how to best utilize these and other data resources to inform local decision-making around science and engineering.”
Register for NSB – NSF Webinar
National Science Foundation (NSF) Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges Virtual Series: Levering AI and Data for Predicting Mechanisms: April 26, 2022
“In 2016, NSF unveiled a set of "Big Ideas," 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identified unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. One of those, Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype, is based on developing a predictive understanding of how key properties of living systems emerge from interactions of factors such as genomes, phenotypes, and dynamic environments. As NSF considers ways to promote use-inspired research that reaches beyond curiosity-driven science, we seek multidisciplinary, community feedback on how researchers can use the emerging Rules of Life to address societal challenges by combining approaches from among all the scientific disciplines, including engineering; mathematics; physical sciences; computer science; geosciences; social, behavioral, and economic sciences; as well as the breadth of biological sciences. To this end, we announce a series of free Virtual Events centered on Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges. The goal is to bring together researchers with diverse perspectives -- including those from all scientific disciplines, with various levels of experience (from senior scientists to postdocs), from different types of institutions or organizations, and from historically underrepresented groups in STEM -- to share ideas about how Rules of Life approaches and data might be harnessed by multidisciplinary teams to tackle pressing societal challenges.”
Save the Date for NSF Rules of Life Virtual Events
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Spring Knowledge Challenge Showcase: April 28, 2022
“Join us for our Spring Knowledge Challenge Showcase, which will feature short presentations by Kauffman Knowledge Challenge grantees. Their work focuses on activities that improve our understanding of entrepreneurship and generate practical, actionable, and rigorous evidence to inform decision making and create systems change. The event is open to the public, and we encourage entrepreneurs, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneur support organizations, and community members to join and learn about how this research can inform your work.”
Kauffman Foundation Webinar Registration
Hanover Research Grants Workshops: April 28, May 26, June 30, 2022
Hanover Research is offering a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers to develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on April 28, 2022 is titled “Fact or Fiction: NSF CAREER” and the webinar on May 26, 2022 is titled “Transitioning from Single- to Multi-Investigator Grants.”
Register for Hanover Workshop on NSF CAREER on April 28th
New Schools Venture Fund Summit 2022: May 4-5, 2022
“Since 1999, NewSchools Summit has been one of the most anticipated annual gatherings for leaders across the education sector. We feature speakers who reflect a diverse set of voices and bring unique perspectives in the field. Summit attendees engage in thought-provoking conversations and leave with actionable ideas. This year will be no different. We look forward to seeing you.”
Register for NewSchools Virtual Summit
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Workshops
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. Multiple Workshops will be held during the month of May.
NSF CAREER Foundation-Wide Program Briefings: May 10, 2022 and May 16, 2022
NSF Education & Human Resources focused CAREER Workshop: May 10, 2022
NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop May 11-13, 2022
NSF CAREER Proposal Submission Logistics Webinar: May 26, 2022
WSU Information Security: Privacy & Security Training: May 10, 2022; 4:00-5:00pm in RSC Room 203 (Lancelot)
Gina Riggs and Mark Rodee offer WSU Privacy and Security Training monthly on the second Tuesday of every month. Learn how to prevent, detect and respond to information security and privacy concerns.
Email informationsecurity@wichita.edu with questions.
BUILD Health Challenge Fourth Cohort Program Webinar: May 17, 2022
The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) invites communities with innovative ideas to address health disparities to apply for a new fourth cohort starting May 3, 2022. As a BUILD community, your team will be part of a special network helping to create a new norm in the U.S.—one that advances health equity and racial justice by centering multi-sector and community-driven partnerships. Want to learn more about BUILD, or start thinking about application ideas in the meantime? Be sure to join us on May 17, 2022, from 1:00-2:30 pm ET for an informational webinar. (Registration will open on May 3, 2022. For those who cannot participate, the recording will also be posted for reference.)
Read more about the BUILD Health Challenge
National Science Foundation (NSF) IIS Office Hours: Getting the Most Out of Your Panel Experience, and Writing Your Best Reviews: May 19, 2022
The IIS Office Hours are for researchers interested in learning about programs and policies in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) at NSF. Office Hours are designed to give current and potential investigators a window into IIS. Each session will feature a topic of interest to a diverse group of researchers. Attendance at office hours is voluntary and designed to help investigators gain information that can help them strengthen their proposals. Short summaries will be posted after each session. Sessions will be closed-captioned. Speakers at this event will be Dan Cosley and Andruid Kerne, Human-Centered Computing.
NSF Event: Getting the Most Out of Your Panel Experience, and Writing Your Best Reviews
San Diego Supercomputer Center Webinar: Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Learning on Expanse: May 19, 2022
Deep learning neural networks have become a prominent tool in science and machine learning. This webinar will provide a short overview of the main concepts of neural networks and feature discovery. We will also demonstrate the basic convolution neural network for digit recognition using tensorflow and try to get an intuition about how the network performs and what defines deep learning in practice. We will also review some useful notes on running deep networks on Expanse, such as using tensorboard, notebooks, and batch jobs.
Princeton GPU Hackathon 2022: Virtual Event June 1 and June 6-8, 2022
GPU Hackathons provide exciting opportunities for scientists to accelerate their AI research or HPC codes under the guidance of expert mentors from National Labs, Universities and Industry leaders in a collaborative environment. The Princeton GPU Hackathon is a multi-day event designed to help teams accelerate their own codes on GPUs using a programming model, or machine learning framework of their choice. All fields are welcomed, from astrophysics to machine learning to genomics. Although Princeton and Princeton-area teams will be given priority, a Princeton affiliation is not required.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Virtual Grants Conference: June 6-10, 2022
The conference is designed to give new faculty, researchers, and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. NSF program officers will provide up-to-date information about specific funding opportunities and answer attendee questions.
Save the Date – NSF Virtual Grants Conference Opens in May
University of Oklahoma Supercomputing Center for Education and Research (OU OSCER): Virtual Residency Workshop 2022: June 27-July 1, 2022
The workshop will be available onsite in person and remote via zoom videoconferencing. Attend to learn how to use advanced computing, help others to use research community and/or to meet a community of fellow research computing facilitators.
OU OSCER website and Registration link for 2022 Virtual Residency Workshop
Ongoing: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Emergency Response Research Webinar Series
EPA's Office of Research and Development hosts this webinar series to share current research activities and results. This webinar series covers the latest information on research supporting EPA's response to chemical, biological, and radiological incidents, as well as natural disasters. This forum allows EPA to communicate directly with partners and stakeholders to foster collaboration and dissemination of information.
View upcoming and previously recorded EPA Emergency Response Research webinars
Ongoing: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Engaging Research Innovations and Challenges (EnRICH) Webinar Series
The EnRICH webinar series provides a national forum for researchers and practitioners to disseminate innovative solutions to contemporary challenges in applied and translational maternal and child health research and practice. Each event features one or more speakers who are experts in the field. Previous webinars have included topics such as “How to Develop a Successful Research Career.”
View upcoming and previously recorded EnRICH webinars
XSEDE Courses
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is a virtual collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation that facilitates free, customized access to advanced digital resources, consulting, training, and mentorship. XSEDE helps the nation's most creative minds discover breakthroughs and solutions for some of the world's greatest scientific challenges. Upcoming events include “Parallel Computing Concepts” on January 20, 2022.
Check for upcoming courses on the XSEDE Course Calendar
Congratulations to those who received grants in April! Please help the WSU community stay informed by forwarding any notices of funding opportunities and/or training sessions to research@wichita.edu for inclusion in the next newsletter. Good luck to all of you in your research efforts over the next month.
Coleen Pugh, Vice Provost for Research
AWARDS
SHOCKTOBERFEST PARADE
PI/Department: Kristin Beal, Shift Space Gallery
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce / Natl Endowment for the Arts
Amount: $7,500
INNOVATIVE WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $305,068
APPLIED RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CPRF'S GUIDED INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSESSMENT (GILA) PROGRAM
PI/Department: Heidi Cornell, School of Education
Co-PI/Department: Angela Beeler, Department of CLES
Sponsor: Cerebral Palsy Res Found - Kansas INC
Amount: $100,834
A QUESTION OF TASTE: GASTROPOLITICS AND COMMUNITY IN WICHITA
PI/Department: Rocio Del Aguila, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
COMMUNITY SERVICE GRANT (CSG) FY 2022
PI/Department: Debra Fraser, KMUW
Sponsor: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Amount: $58,083
COMPOSITE MATERIAL TESTING
PI/Department: Jeffrey Gilchrist, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: L-3 Communications / US Airforce
Amount: $242,518
STATIC LOAD FRAME SETUP
PI/Department: Jeffrey Gilchrist, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: J & C Aero EEU LTD
Amount: $2,342
AIDS EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTERS PROGRAM
PI/Department: Jamie Harrington, School of Nursing
Sponsor: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $10,000
I-CORPS: A SMART CONTEXT-AWARE MULTI-FINGERED SYSTEM FOR DEXTEROUS GRASPING
PI/Department: Hongsheng He, School of Computing
Co-PI/Department: Viswanatha Madhavan, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $50,000
ONLINE MOCK TRIAL - LIVCIT
PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Tsongas
Amount: $6,000
DESIGN OF A WEB-ACCESSIBLE TOOL TO SUPPORT AUTOMATION AND A STREAMLINED WORKFLOW FOR A TASK DISTRIBUTION
PI/Department: Amy Jones, Training & Technology Team
Sponsor: Southcentral Pathology Laboratory Pa
Amount: $40,250
TECHNICAL SERVICES
PI/Department: Amy Jones, Training & Technology Team
Sponsor: Midwest Engineering Inc
Amount: $3,000
ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH (MOD 1)
PI/Department: Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $15,000
ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH MOD2 #P00002
PI/Department: Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $7,639
ADVANCED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH MOD 3 #P00003
PI/Department: Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory
Amount: $30,000
LCAM PHASE II WIND TUNNEL PLANNING AND EXECUTION
PI/Department: John Laffen, NIAR - Wind & Water Tunnel
Sponsor: Simmonds Precision Products Inc / US Navy
Amount: $74,700
ESSENTIAL COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE DUNE EXPERIMENT
PI/Department: Mathew Muether, Physics
Sponsor: Oregon State University / Department of Energy
Amount: $60,000
FIBER, RESIN AND VOID CONTENT TESTING
PI/Department: Matthew Opliger, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Latecoere
Amount: $1,762
LETTERFORM ARCHIVE: UNCOVERING LOST WORK OF THE WESTERN BALKANS HERITAGE
PI/Department: Irma Puskarevic, School of Art & Design
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
REFORMING POLICE THROUGH A NATIONAL NETWORK OF REGIONAL TRAINING CENTERS AT FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY
PI/Department: Guy Schroeder, Fin & Admin Police Department
Sponsor: Fort Hays State University / Community Oriented Policing Servs
Amount: $15,837
EXPANDING ACCESS TO SPACE: PHILOSOPHY OF DISABILITY AND ETHICS OF SPACE EXPLORATION
PI/Department: James Schwartz, Philosophy
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
TOOL FOR ANALYSIS TO PREDICT STRENGTH AND DURABILITY OF CURVED AND TAPERED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES UNDER MULTIAXIAL LOADING
PI/Department: Waruna Seneviratne, NIAR - Composites & Structures
Co-PI/Department: Caleb Saathoff, NIAR-Composites & Structures
Sponsor: Global Engineering & Materials, Inc. / US Navy
Amount: $100,000
STRUCTURALLY SPECIFIC ISOTOPIC SHIFTS ACROSS ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS
PI/Department: Alexandre Shvartsburg, Chemistry
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $474,870
COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR LEGACY AIRFRAMES AND SUBSYSTEMS
PI/Department: John Tomblin, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Co-PI/Department: Shawn Ehrstein, NIAR-CAD/CAM | David Jones, NIAR-EDM Lab | Melinda Laubach-Hock, Nat'l Institute for Aviation Res
Sponsor: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences - NCMS / Department of Defense
Amount: $9,341,343
DISASTER RELIEF GRANT AKA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INTEGRATION IN SCHOOL SUPPORT FOR YLINK CONFERENCE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse - Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $7,360
INNOVATIVE STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES TO PREVENT AND MANAGE DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE AND STROKE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $5,000
IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS THROUGH PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES AND HEART DISEASE & STROKE (CDC 1815)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $103,420
STATEWIDE RATIONAL SERVICE AREA RFI AND PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment-Kansas / Health Resources & Services Admin
Amount: $49,346
PARENT PEER SUPPORT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse - Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $29,622
ESSENTIALS FOR CHILDHOOD INITATIVE - AMENDMENT 1
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $8,500
HASKELL COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Satanta District Hospital and Long Term Care
Amount: $9,500
TRAUMA-INFORMED ORGANIZATION PROJECT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Four County Mental Health Center
Amount: $23,701
2022 KLC TEAM MEMBER CONTRACT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Leadership Center
Amount: $109,743
SETTING INITIAL STRATEGIES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum
Amount: $4,241
STRATEGIC PLANNING
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Wichita Asian Association
Amount: $4,752
AMERICORPS MEMBER CHILDREN FIRST
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Children First CEO Kansas Inc
Amount: $21,000
AMERICORPSMEMBER WITH LEGACY MINISTRIES
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Legacy Ministries, Inc.
Amount: $8,000
DYSLEXIA AS LANGUAGE POLICY: EXPLORING THE INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION STAGE OF DYSLEXIA INITIATIVES IN WICHITA SCHOOL DISTRICT, KANSAS
PI/Department: Sun Young Lee, School of Education
Sponsor: State of Kansas
Amount: $4,500
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized searching please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. The Office of Research has updated its website with more information about the deadlines for receipt of proposals. While mandatory forms must be finalized well in advance of the funder deadline, you may continue to focus on your proposal narrative until closer to the deadline. Please visit Pre-Award Services to find out more.
Funding Agency: NASA
Application Deadline: Notices of Intent strongly encouraged and due May 25, 2022; Full Proposals due June 23, 2022
Purpose: “NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) hereby solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities for innovative, early-stage space technology research of high priority to NASA’s Mission Directorates. This Appendix seeks proposals on specific space technologies that are currently at low Technology Readiness Levels (TRL). Investment in innovative low-TRL research increases knowledge and capabilities in response to new questions and requirements, stimulates innovation, and allows more creative solutions to problems constrained by schedule and budget. Moreover, it is investment in fundamental research activities that has historically benefited the Nation on a broader basis, generating new industries and spin-off applications.” The current five topics are: 1) – Development of Fusion Plasma Direct Energy Conversion Processes for Thrust and Electric Power Production, 2) Development of Deterministic High Bandwidth Onboard Wireless Networks, 3) Improved Methods for Characterization of Blunt-Body Dynamic Stability, 4) Advancing Manufacturing Approaches for Scalable Functionally Graded Materials for Space Applications, and 5) Development of Materials and Manufacturing Processes for High Temperature Radiators.
Amount: $650,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Application Deadline: Concept Papers due May 31, 2022
Purpose: “The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is issuing, on behalf of the Vehicle Technologies Office, this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA). Projects awarded under this FOA will be funded, in whole or in part, with funds appropriated by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Public Law 117-58, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The BIL is a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure that will grow a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable economy through enhancing U.S. competitiveness in the world, creating good jobs, ensuring stronger access to these economic benefits for disadvantaged communities. The BIL appropriates more than $62 billion to DOE to deliver a more equitable clean energy future for the American people. The BIL will invest more than $7 billion in the batteries supply chain over the five year period encompassing fiscal years (FYs) 2022 through 2026. This includes sustainable sourcing and processing of the critical minerals used in battery production without new extraction or mining all the way through end-of-life battery collection and recycling. This FOA and any related activities support BIL section 40208. The sections are focused on Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Recycling and Second-Life Program that includes second-life applications for electric drive vehicle batteries that have been used to power electric drive vehicles; and technologies and processes for final recycling and disposal of the electric drive vehicle batteries.”
Amount: $4,000,000-$12,000,000 (NOTE – Cost Share is required.)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2022 Cohort - Tracks H, I, J
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by May 31, 2022; Phase 1 Full Proposals due July 20, 2022
Purpose: “The National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program addresses national-scale societal challenges through use-inspired convergence research. Using a convergence approach and innovation processes like human-centered design, user discovery, and team science and integration of multidisciplinary research, the Convergence Accelerator program seeks to transition basic research and discovery into practice — to solve high-impact societal challenges aligned with specific research themes (tracks). The NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2022 Cohort - Tracks H, I, J solicitation consists of three tracks as follows: Track H: Enhancing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities; Track I: Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges; and Track J: Food & Nutrition Security.”
Amount: $750,000 for Phase 1
*** LIMITED*** Funding Agency: W. M. Keck Foundation
Title: Scholars Program
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two proposals (one medical and one science & engineering), Limited Submission Concept Papers must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by May 31, 2022 at 12 noon, in case an internal competition is needed. WSU may choose up to four medical and four science & engineering Concept Papers to submit to Keck for consultation. You will be informed if your Concept Paper has been chosen to be reviewed by Keck consultants by June 15, 2022, and you will have a chance to finalize your Concept Papers for Keck consultation review (if selected) by June 30, 2022. Please email proposals@wichita.edu for a list of requirements for the internal WSU Limited Submission Concept Papers.
Purpose: “The Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas: 1) medical research and 2) science and engineering, that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. Past grants have been awarded to major universities, independent research institutions, and medical schools to support pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies.”
Amount: $1,000,000-$2,000,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: May 31, 2022 or November 13, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this initiative is to support research that seeks to (1) understand the underlying mechanisms and (2) test interventions to address and mitigate the impact of health-related misinformation and disinformation on health disparities and the populations that experience health disparities.”
Amount: $500,000 in direct costs over five years
Funding Agency: Fulbright Scholar Program
Title: Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (S-I-R) Program is a unique Fulbright Scholar Program initiative that is specifically driven by the goals of U.S. institutions of higher education to enhance internationalization efforts on their campuses. Through the S-I-R Program, institutions host a scholar from outside of the United States for a semester or full academic year to teach courses, assist in curriculum development, guest lecture, develop study abroad/exchange partnerships and engage with the campus and the local community.”
Amount: Fulbright grant benefits are provided directly to the individual Scholar, disbursed by IIE and include round-trip international air travel, a monthly stipend, a monthly allowance for up to two dependents, and initial settling-in and professional allowances. IIE will issue the DS2019 form in support of J-visa sponsorship.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: ICMR/NIAID/BMGF Clinical Research Fellowship Exchange Program: Participants from USA
Application Deadline: June 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), have teamed up to provide a fellowship opportunity that will enable clinicians from India and the United States of America (USA) to conduct research in areas of infectious diseases and immunology at an exchange laboratory and other approved facilities. This fellowship is available to clinicians from the USA interested in a hands-on research experience at a Government of India accredited facility in India.”
Amount: Support in the form of a stipend for living ($3,000 per month up to 3 months), and other expenses as determined by the program sponsors, health insurance supplemental stipend and roundtrip airfare.
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Improving Postpartum Maternal Outcomes for Populations Experiencing Disparities – Cycle 2 2022
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 1, 2022; If invited, Full Proposals due August 31, 2022
Purpose: “This Targeted PCORI Funding Announcement (Targeted PFA) seeks to fund large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and/or well-designed observational studies comparing multicomponent strategies to improve early detection of, and timely care for, complications up to six weeks postpartum for groups more often underserved or experiencing the greatest disparities in health outcomes, including Black, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), Hispanic, rural, and low socioeconomic status (SES) populations.”
Amount: Up to $5 million for smaller studies; up to $15 million for larger studies, over five years
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 1, 2022; If invited, Full Proposals due August 31, 2022
Purpose: “The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is seeking to fund high-quality comparative effectiveness research (CER) that compares health system strategies to address disparities in hypertension management and control.”
Amount: Up to $15 million over five years
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research – 2022 Standing PFA
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 1, 2022; If invited, Full Proposals due August 31, 2022
Purpose: “With this PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA), PCORI aims to fund studies that address high-priority methodological gaps in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and clinical comparative effectiveness research (CER). PCORI seeks to fund projects that address important methodological gaps and lead to improvements in the strength and quality of evidence generated by PCOR/CER studies. For the 2022 Methods PFA, PCORI has identified the following areas as programmatic priorities: 1) Methods to Improve the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Clinical Research; 2) Methods to Improve Study Design; 3) Methods to Support Data Research Networks; 4) Methods Related to Ethical and Human Subjects Protections Issues in PCOR/CER.”
Amount: $750,000 over three years
Funding Agency: The Retirement Research Foundation
Title: Supporting Organizations Committed to Elevating the Value of Older People
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 1, 2022; If invited, Full Proposals due August 1, 2022
Purpose: “RRF Foundation for Aging focuses on improving the quality of life for older people. In an effort to strengthen the Foundation’s impact, RRF has established Priority Areas. These Priority Areas are specific topics in aging that will be given higher priority within the Foundation’s grantmaking program. Priority Areas include: 1) Caregiving, 2) Economic Security in Later Life, 3) Housing, 4) Social and Intergenerational Connectedness, 5) Organizational Capacity Building, and 6) Other Promising Projects.”
Amount: $100,000 - $250,000
Funding Agency: Kendal Charitable Funds
Title: 2022 Promising Innovations Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 10, 2022
Purpose: “The 2022 grant program topic will focus on the national workforce shortages that are straining the U.S. healthcare system, specifically the shortage of skilled workers in the fields of elderly care. Kendal Charitable Funds is seeking proposals that address two or more of the identified immediate needs, through creative, innovative, and replicable strategies and/or programs in the senior living industry and/or related services field that: 1) Retain members of the current workforce through positive work experiences, 2) Recruits and nurtures new members of the senior living workforce, 3) Builds future employment opportunities and career pathways or 4) Promotes positive images of employment opportunities and careers in senior living.”
Amount: Up to $50,000 over two years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Application Deadline: June 12, 2022 or October 12, 2022
Purpose: “The goal of the NIDCR Career Enhancement Award (K18) is to support mentored research experiences for established investigators who either wish to expand or augment their dental, oral, or craniofacial (DOC) research program, or to redirect their research by incorporating DOC research into their research program to advance fundamental knowledge about dental, oral, and craniofacial health and disease.”
Amount: NIH will contribute $25,000 per year toward the research development costs of the award recipient, which must be justified and consistent with the stage of development of the candidate and the proportion of time to be spent in research or career development activities.
Funding Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Title: FY 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative
Application Deadline: Grants.gov deadline June 16, 2022; Just Grants deadline June 21, 2022.
Purpose: “Through this opportunity, the Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks applications for funding to prevent and reduce violent crime in communities by supporting comprehensive, evidence-based violence intervention and prevention programs, including efforts to address gang and gun violence, based on partnerships among community residents, local government agencies, victim service providers, community-based organizations, law enforcement, hospitals, researchers, and other community stakeholders.”
Amount: Depends on Category
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022 or October 16, 2022
Purpose: “The goal of this funding opportunity announcement is to support meritorious research projects that involve secondary data analyses of existing oral or craniofacial database resources, or that develop needed statistical methodology for analyzing existing dental, oral or craniofacial databases.”
Amount: $100,000 in direct costs per year, over two years
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: June 16, 2022 or October 16, 2022
Purpose: “The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies. Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (“de-implement”) the use of practices that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. Applications that focus on re-implementation of evidence-based health services (e.g. cancer screening) that may have dropped off amidst the ongoing COVID pandemic are encouraged.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000. No more than $200,000 may be requested in a single year. The maximum project period is two years.
Funding Agency: Department of Defense: Army
Title: DoD Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program (PRARP), Investigator- Initiated Research Award
Application Deadline: Mandatory Pre-Application due June 17, 2022
Purpose: “The PRARP was initiated in FY11 to address the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) as they pertain to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD). The PRARP prioritizes research that will provide meaningful outcomes to support caregivers and persons with AD and ADRD, with a focus on partnership with those most impacted by these conditions. In addition, the PRARP strongly advocates for study population diversity, including but not limited to ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and health access factors. In addition to a focus on individual and care support, the PRARP seeks to support research focusing on the intersection of TBI-AD/ADRD, including understanding mechanisms, biomarkers, and risk factors associated with Veteran populations. The PRARP is interested in supporting research leading to treatment modalities that have near-term benefit.”
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Disaster Resilience Research Grants (DRRG)
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 20, 2022; Full Proposals due August 19, 2022
Purpose: “With this joint solicitation, the NSF and the U.S Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) call for proposals for research to advance fundamental understanding of disaster resilience in support of improved, science-based planning, policy, decisions, design, codes, and standards.”
Amount: $200,000-$400,000
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Open Competition PFA: Implementation of Findings from PCORI’s Research Investments – Cycle 2 2022
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent required by June 21, 2022; If invited, Full Proposals due August 31, 2022
Purpose: “An open competition PFA seeks to fund large-scale projects that promote the uptake of peer-reviewed findings from specific, high-priority PCORI-funded research topics. PCORI has identified four areas of focus under this PFA: 1) Antibiotic use, 2) Obesity treatment, 3) Posttraumatic stress disorder, 4) Urinary incontinence.”
Amount: Up $2.5 million over three years
Funding Agency: Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Title: Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grant
Application Deadline: June 27, 2022
Purpose: “ACF plans to fund Career Pathways Secondary Data Analysis Grants to support secondary analysis of data collected to rigorously evaluate a collection of career pathways programs. Career pathways programs provide post-secondary education and training organized as a series of manageable steps leading to successively higher credentials and employment opportunities in growing occupations. Programs also provide financial, academic, and non-academic support to help primarily non-traditional students with low incomes enroll and persist in education.”
Amount: $75,000
Funding Agency: Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Title: Employer Engagement Program
Application Deadline: June 27, 2022
Purpose: “The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) invites eligible entities to submit competitive grant applications for the ORR Employer Engagement Program. Through the Employer Engagement Program, ORR will provide funding to strengthen employer engagement in the integration and self-sufficiency of eligible Afghan entrants within the community. Programs will enter into formal partnerships with employers to develop training curricula, provide career counseling, and strengthen opportunities for workplace-based training, apprenticeships, and internships. Programs will share costs of workplace instructors and will supply liaisons to design work-oriented language and training curricula, schedule and announce services, and coordinate with employment case managers for referral and enrollment to support career advancement. Employer partnerships will also include longer-term individual investment opportunities by sponsoring and covering the costs of vocational certification, recertification, and/or longer-term educational degrees.”
Amount: $900,000
*** LIMITED *** Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
Application Deadline: ***Limited*** Because WSU may only submit two Track 1 proposals and one Track 2 proposal, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by June 30, 2022 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. You will be informed if you have been chosen to proceed by August 15, 2022. Applications to the funder (if selected) will be due by January 19, 2023.
Purpose: “The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to develop next-generation research instruments that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.”
Amount: Track 1: Greater than $100,000 and less than $1,000,000; Track 2: $1,000,000-$4,000,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Title: Fellowship opportunity at the Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office
Application Deadline: June 30, 2022
Purpose: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science, Technology and Policy (STP) Program is designed to provide opportunities to participate in programs, projects, and activities within the Loan Programs Office (LPO). The STP Program provides an opportunity for highly talented engineers; sustainability, legal, finance professionals, entrepreneurs; and physical, natural, and social scientists to participate in projects at DOE's Loan Programs Office (LPO) in Washington, DC. The LPO seeks to develop future leaders in advanced energy technology and energy project finance. Participants selected for this opportunity will be involved in projects in the Technical and Project Management Division (TMPD) within LPO.”
Amount: Participants will receive a stipend to be determined by LPO. Stipends are typically based on the participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location. LPO may authorize a stipend increase to offset the costs of health insurance. Participants are eligible to purchase health insurance plans offered through ORISE. A relocation allowance may be provided for participants relocating to the Washington, D.C. Participants may receive reimbursement for training and/or travel as approved by LPO.
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Title: U.S. Navy Fiscal Year 2023 Young Investigator Program
Application Deadline: July 1, 2022, November 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023
Purpose: “The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for its Young Investigator Program (YIP). ONR's Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2015, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Proposals addressing research areas that are of interest to ONR Program Officers will be considered. Contact information for each division (a subgroup of an S&T Department) is also listed within the S&T section of the website. Applicants are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to contact the appropriate Program Officer who is the point of contact for a specific technical area to discuss their research ideas before submitting a proposal.”
Amount: Typical awards are $510,000 over a 36-month period of performance.
Funding Agency: Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation
Title: PVA Research Foundation Grants
Application Deadline: July 1, 2022
Purpose: “The Research Foundation is focused on funding projects grounded in basic laboratory science and the education of scientists working on breakthroughs directed toward a cure for paralysis, secondary health effects and technologies associated with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D). These projects should be designed to find better treatments and cures for paralysis and support efforts to improve the quality of life of individuals with SCI/D until improved clinical treatments, technologies or cures are discovered, as well as to train post-doctoral fellow investigators and encourage them to specialize in the area of spinal cord research.”
Amount: Basic Science Grants funded up to $150,000 for 2 years, Clinical Applications Grants funded up to $150,000 for 2 years, Design and Development/Assistive Technology Grants funded up to $150,000 for 2 years, and Post-doctoral Fellowships Grants funded up to $100,000 for 2 years.
Funding Agency: National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due July 1, 2022
Purpose: “NIHCM Foundation wishes to support innovative investigator-initiated health services research that will advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy. Studies must have strong potential to yield insights that can be used to have a positive impact on the U.S. health care system by improving efficiency, quality, access to care or equity. Studies involving direct patient care or clinical, bench-science research are not relevant for this solicitation.”
Amount: Varies, see website for previous awards
Funding Agency: NASA
Title: ORAU NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships
Application Deadline: July 1, 2022
Purpose: “The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers a unique and inspiring environment for Fellows to conduct world-class research with leading scientists across the United States. The diverse scientific and technological fellowships offered at NASA are one-of-a-kind educational experiences that prepare future leaders for NASA and the academic community.
NPP Fellows are selected through a competitive peer review process, and complete one- to three-year appointments that advance research across NASA’s space and Earth science missions. The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) consists of two components—the NASA Postdoctoral Research Program and the NASA Postdoctoral Management Program. As the NPP is a resident program, Fellows are located at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute during the appointment.”
Amount: Stipend rates for these NASA postdoctoral fellows currently start at $63,000 per year. Supplements are provided for higher cost-of-living areas and certain academic specialties. The stipend amount for a senior postdoctoral fellow is based on the location of the appointment, experience (number of years beyond the doctoral degree) and career achievement, including academic rank and professional title. Available benefits include health insurance supplements, professional development resources, a research allowance up to $10,000 per year and relocation reimbursement.
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Visual Arts
Application Deadline: July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting visual arts activity—painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, drawing, craft, and public art—that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA is interested in supporting contemporary artists and the projects they undertake, such as exhibitions, residencies, publications, commissions, public art works, conservation, documentation, services to the field, and public programs. The NEA is committed to encouraging individual artistic development, experimentation, and dialogue between artists and the public.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Title: Grants for Arts Projects: Museums
Application Deadline: July 7, 2022
Purpose: “The NEA is committed to supporting museum activity that demonstrates exceptional aesthetic investigation and meaningful community engagement. Specifically, the NEA assists museums through the support of exhibitions, care of collections, conservation, commissions, public art works, community engagement, education activities, and other museum work. Museum projects funded by the NEA demonstrate artistic excellence and artistic merit in and across a variety of mediums, movements, eras, and cultures.”
Amount: Matching Grants of $10,000 - $100,000
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Title: Reducing Maternal Deaths Due to Substance Use Disorder
Application Deadline: July 11, 2022
Purpose: “This initiative addresses the intersection of three HHS Priority areas: maternal health; mental health; and substance use disorder. The development and evaluation of such interventions align with OWH's work on disease prevention and health promotion for issues of particular concern to women throughout their lifespan.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS): Office of Assistant Secretary for Health: Office on Women’s Health