Greetings, faculty!
Please see the list of announcements, funding opportunities, and resources below. Archives of previous updates are available on ORSP’s blog.
Announcements
- Please join ORSP in congratulating the 2024 NSF CAREER Cohort, who worked diligently all summer to meet this week’s deadline. Kudos on all your hard work and best of luck in the competition!
- Dr. Luis Sanchez-Diaz, Chemistry & Physics
- Dr. Rahul Bhosale, Civil & Chemical Engineering
- Dr. Yunye Shi, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Reetesh Ranjan, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Murat Barisik, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Khalid Tantawi, Engineering Management & Technology
- Recorded sessions from NSF’s Spring 2024 Grants Conference are now available on the Policy Office Outreach website or their YouTube page.
- NSF has enabled six new product types in the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR): audiovisual, data paper, educational aid and curriculum, posted content, software, and sound. Visit the Research.gov About Public Access page for more information.
- Please pass along the following fellowship and internship opportunities to your undergraduate students:
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program – The deadline ranges by discipline, from October 15-18, 2024. View the solicitation and application resources here.
- US Dept of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships – The deadline for Spring 2025 internships is October 2, 2024. View the solicitation and application resources here.
Limited Submission Competitions
The following programs have a limited submission requirement. If you are interested in the program, you must submit by the internal deadline to be eligible for selection.
| Sponsor/Program | Internal Deadline | Limitations or Special Considerations |
| NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI): Track 1 Only | August 30, 2024 | Only internal proposals for acquisition/development of instrumentation costing up to $1,400,000 (Track 1) is requested at this time. Internal proposals must include a letter of support signed by the Dean. Click here to preview the application in InfoReady Review. |
Other Funding Opportunities
If you are interested in applying to any of the opportunities below, please notify ORSP at least 4-6 weeks in advance of the deadline. Proposals with fewer than 5 business days notice may face barriers to submission. More information about ORSP’s proposal development timeline and services is available here.
| Sponsor/Program | Deadline | Limitations or Special Considerations |
| NSF CISE Core Projects | Small: September 30, 2024Medium: October 23, 2024 | An individual may not participate as senior personnel in more than two proposals across all project classes within a 12-month period. All senior personnel must have a tenured or tenure-track position or a full-time research or teaching appointment at a US-based institution of higher education. |
| NSF Engineering Research Initiation | October 9, 2024 | At the time of the proposal submission deadline, the PI may not have been a PI or Co-PI on any current or prior awarded NSF research grant (including subaward) or have had research support from any other Federal Agency (within the United States or abroad) totaling $200,000 or more within the past five (5) calendar years. See solicitation for a list of exceptions. |
| NSF PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation | November 10, 2024 | At least one PI/co-PI must be a member of an engineering department AND not have received engineering education or professional formation funding through EEC in the last three years. Additional PI considerations apply; see solicitation for more details. |
| NSF DCL: NAIRR Pilot Expansion: Researcher Training, Community Outreach, and Classroom Education | December 15, 2024 | Only specific proposal and supplemental request types are solicited; see solicitation for more details. Concept outline submission and approval are required prior to submitting a full proposal or supplemental request. |
| NEA Translation Project Fellowships | January 16, 2025 | Applicants must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents. The individual applies directly to NEA. |
| NSF Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T) | January 21, 2025 | Only 5-10 awards expected. NO PI limitations for standard research proposals. |
Sponsored Projects Policy Spotlight: Cost Transfers
Sponsored Projects Policy FI0220 lays out the policies and procedures that ensure the timely allocation of charges to or cost transfers from sponsored project accounts. See Appendix 1 for guidance on the timing for charging graduate research assistant tuition and fee waivers.
Best,
Ashley Ledford,
Director of Pre-Award Services
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
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