Greetings, faculty!
Please see the list of announcements, funding opportunities, and resources below. Archives of previous updates are available on ORSP’s blog.
General Announcements
- ORSP’s last day of operations is this Friday (December 20). We’ll reopen with campus on January 2. We wish you all a happy holiday season and look forward to working with you in the new year!
- With the transition to DASH Financial in January, the UT System has established negotiated fringe benefits rates (similar to how we have a negotiated indirect cost rate). In the DASH financial system, fringe benefits will be charged to active sponsored project awards based on these negotiated rates. In anticipation of this change, ORSP has begun budgeting for sponsored project proposals using these negotiated fringe rates. FAQs are available on ORSP’s budgeting webpage.
Sponsor Announcements
- As federal agencies move forward with the adoption of the common forms for the biosketch and CPS, some agencies, such as NIH, will start requiring investigators to have an ORCID. Learn more about the requirement and NIH’s timetable for enforcement here.
- NIH has reissued the R15 AREA and REAP programs (see below). Register here for a live webinar on January 30 about the program and recent changes.
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 withfewer 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 Experiential Learning in Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) | February 24, 2025 | No eligibility limitations. Cross-sector partnerships are required. Click here to register for upcoming office hours on this program. |
| HRSA Maternal and Child Health Secondary Data Analysis Research | February 25, 2025 | Applicants must include an early-stage investigator and a senior investigator as co-investigators. |
| NIH R15 AREA and REAP programs | February 25, 2025 | Additional deadlines June 25 and October 25. PIs may not have an active NIH research award. The AREA program is for researchers with a primary appointment in CAS or CECS. The REAP program is for researchers with a primary appointment in a health professional school/department. |
| NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) | March 3, 2025 | Eligibility limited to Associate and Full Professors. No Co-PIs allowed. |
| NSF S-STEM | March 4, 2025 | UTC is limited to 2 proposals serving students from non-overlapping disciplines. This opportunity will be treated as first-come, first served for 2025. |
| NSF Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) | September 29, 2025 | The program has been redesigned. Personnel eligibility restrictions and participation limitations apply. |
| NSF Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology | Proposals accepted anytime | No limitations or special considerations. |
| NSF Life and Environments Through Time | Proposals accepted anytime | No limitations or special considerations. |
| NSF Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth | Proposals accepted anytime | No limitations or special considerations. |
| NSF Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes | Proposals accepted anytime | No limitations or special considerations. |
Sponsored Projects Policy Spotlight: Conflicts of Interest
Changes are coming to the Outside Interest Disclosure process. The new Conflict of Interest (COI) certification process will go live January 6, 2025. Annual disclosure will occur in September 2025, but if you are participating in a proposal and did not complete a new OID form by the December 13 cutoff date, you will need to submit a COI form in DASH prior to the proposal submission. Stay tuned for more details and training opportunities in January 2025!
Best,
Ashley Ledford,
Director of Pre-Award Services
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
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