Greetings, faculty!
Please see the list of announcements, funding opportunities, and resources below. Archives of previous updates are available on ORSP’s blog.
Announcements
- The UTC Research Institute has announced a call for concept papers to invest at least one new interdisciplinary focus area. Learn more and apply here. An Info Session will be held on Thursday, May 23 from 10-11am in UTC Library room 435.
- The Open Publishing Support Fund has been fully expended for this fiscal year. Congratulations to FY24 fund recipients who had papers published in fully-open source journals:
- Don Reising (Electrical Engineering)
- Gokhan Erdemir (Engineering Management & Technology)
- John Graef (Mathematics)
- Edmund Baffoe Twum (Engineering Management & Technology)
- Drew Bailey (Health and Human Performance)
- Gary Wilkerson (Health and Human Performance)
- Tomorrow Arnold (Psychology)
- DOE invites proposals to access its high performance computing systems at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories through its INCITE program at https://doeleadershipcomputing.org/. The current call for proposals closes June 14.
- The Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS), a division of the NSF BIO Directorate, will be hosting a virtual office hour featuring the Graduate Research Fellowship Program on July 20. While some information will be IOS-specific, the majority of information will be applicable to all disciplines. Please be sure to share this opportunity with undergraduates or new graduate students in your labs and departments. Register here to attend.
- NIH has released their Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women 2024 – 2028. Researchers who are interested in submitting proposals to NIH are encouraged to review the plan for intersections between their research and NIH’s priorities and interests.
Funding Opportunity Interest Surveys
If you are interested in applying to any of the opportunities below, please take a moment to complete the brief interest survey. Additional proposal development resources may be available for interest survey respondents.
| Sponsor/Program | NOI Deadline | Limitations or Special Considerations |
| NASA Research Initiation Awards Interest Survey | June 13, 2024 | PI eligibility limitations apply. Full details available in InfoReady Review and at the program webpage here. |
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 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Addressing Childhood Obesity and Health Inequities | Concept Paper: June 27, 2024 | N/A |
| NSF DCL: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure for Research Data Management (RDM) | July 3, 2024 | Accepting Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) and conference/workshop proposals only. |
| NSF Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems | August 13, 2024 | PI must hold a full-time appointment in research or teaching. The project team must include at least 1 PI/co-PI with expertise in scientific computing and at least 1 PI/co-PI with expertise in formal reasoning and mechanized proving of properties of programs. Individuals are limited to participating in no more than 2 proposals per deadline. |
| NEH Media Projects | August 14, 2024 | Optional draft due to PO by July 10. |
| NEH Public Humanities Projects | August 14, 2024 | A pre-recorded webinar will be posted to the program page by June 5. Optional draft due to PO by July 10. |
| NASA Research Initiation Awards | August 15, 2024 | PI may not have received federal research funding as PI of a project that is related to the proposed research activities within the last five years. Funding for undergraduate students is a required element of the proposed project. A proposer’s overview webinar is scheduled for June 6 from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Register here to attend. |
| NSF Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) | September 5, 2024 | This solicitation also accepts proposals for joint research projects with China, Sao Paulo, and South Africa. |
| NSF CISE: Core Programs, Large Projects | September 29, 2024 | PI must hold a full-time appointment in research or teaching. Individuals are limited to participating in no more than 1 Large Project proposal per deadline. |
Sponsored Projects Policy Spotlight: Cost Sharing
Sponsored Projects Policy FI0210 lays out the policies for cost sharing on sponsored projects. Curious why the UT System discourages including voluntary cost share on proposals? It’s all in this policy!
Best,
Ashley Ledford,
Director of Pre-Award Services
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Book a meeting with me!