Friday, June 21, 2019

Funding Opportunity News | 6/21/2019

To view previously announced funding opportunities, visit the RDO website. Items of particular interest to our College are highlighted in yellow, but this is not to suggest that other opportunities may not be of interest to our researchers, particularly those who form interdisciplinary teams. Contact the Research Office if you are interested in applying for any of these funding opportunities.
NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
The Research Development Office's internal deadline for internal Letters of Intent for the NSF Major Research Instrumentation program is 7/25/19. Your college may set additional deadlines. You can find full details on NC State's internal process here.
Before submitting an internal pre-proposal to RDO, PIs must get approval from their Associate Dean for Research. Each college is limited to three internal pre-proposals in Track 1, and one proposal in Track 2. Shared Core Research Facilities are also invited to submit internal pre-proposals, and are limited to one proposal, independent of track.  
Please direct questions about your college's selection process to your College Research Office. Other questions about NC State's internal review can be directed to limited-submission@ncsu.edu.  
Limited Submission Announcements
These programs are those that limit the number of applications that the university can submit. If you are interested in applying to one of these programs, please click the "Notification of Interest" link and fill out the form. Only those who fill out the form by the deadline will be eligible to participate in internal reviews. For more information about the limited submission process and the limited submission calendar, go here.
Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. An introduction to the NEH Summer Stipend program will be held via webinar on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Please register here if you are interested.
Sponsor deadline - October 17, 2019


The IPG is an initiative designed to promote collaboration among UNC institutions (particularly between larger and smaller institutions) and across disciplinary boundaries. The intention of this award program is to incentivize stronger collaborative relationships within the UNC system to increase the system’s competitiveness in attracting external funds. This is a one-time award to initiate a collaborative team effort, with the expectation that the team will use the funding period to position itself to obtain external funding in support of future activities related to the project.
Internal deadline - Pre-proposal submission through InfoReady Review: 8/23/2019
Limit - 2 per institution
Sponsor deadline - Pre-proposal submission: 8/30/2019
The intent of this solicitation is to request proposals from organizations willing to serve as service providers (SPs) within the NSF Innovative High-Performance Computing (HPC) program to provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities and/or services in production operations to support the full range of computational- and data-intensive research across all of science and engineering (S&E). The current solicitation is intended to complement previous NSF investments in advanced computational infrastructure by provisioning resources.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline - November 5, 2019
Other upcoming limited submission deadlines:
NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) - Notification of interest: 7/25/2019
NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program - Letter of intent: 7/25/2019

Upcoming Internal Funding Deadlines
METRIC Pilot Project Program - October 17, 2019
Non-limited Funding Opportunities
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.
Deadlines: Full proposal deadline - July 10, 2019 & January 8, 2020 NSF: Leading Engineering for America's Prosperity, Health, and Infrastructure (LEAP HI)
The LEAP HI program challenges the engineering research community to take a leadership role in addressing demanding, urgent, and consequential challenges for advancing America’s prosperity, health and infrastructure. LEAP HI proposals confront engineering problems that are too complex to yield to the efforts of a single investigator --- problems that require sustained and coordinated effort from interdisciplinary research teams, with goals that are not achievable through a series of smaller, short-term projects. LEAP HI projects perform fundamental research that may lead to disruptive technologies and methods, lay the foundation for new and strengthened industries, enable notable improvements in quality of life, or reimagine and revitalize the built environment.
Deadline: Letter of Intent - July 15, 2019; Submission window - September 1st - 15th, 2019 *New* NSF: Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of STS topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines, including medical science.
Deadlines: Full proposal - August 3, 2019
Deadlines: Phase I Preliminary proposal - August 13, 2019; Phase I Full proposal - February 19, 2020 *Student Opportunity* NSF: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
 The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. The IRES program contributes to development of a diverse, globally-engaged workforce with world-class skills. IRES focuses on active research participation by undergraduate or graduate students in high quality international research, education and professional development experiences in NSF-funded research areas.
All PIs, co-PIs and Senior Personnel on IRES proposals must be from U.S. based institutions.
  1. IRES - Track I: IRES Sites (IS) projects engage a group of undergraduate and/or graduate students in active high-quality collaborative research at an international site with mentorship from researchers at a host lab. IRES Sites must be organized around a coherent intellectual theme that may involve a single discipline or multiple disciplines funded by NSF.
  2. IRES - Track II: Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) are intensive short courses with related activities that engage advanced graduate students in active learning and research at the frontiers of knowledge. ASIs typically range in length from ten to twenty-one days and must be held outside the United States. ASIs must have a compelling rationale for their international location and should involve distinguished active researchers in the target field from the U.S. and abroad. ASIs should enable students to develop skills and broaden professional networks, leveraging international participation and complementary resources (expertise, facilities, data, field site, etc.) for mutual benefit.
  3. IRES - Track III: New Concepts in International Graduate Experience (IGE) The IGE IRES track invites teams of PIs to propose, implement, evaluate and disseminate innovative large-scale programs (models) for providing high-quality international research and research-related professional development experiences to U.S. graduate students. The PIs should explain how their innovative program (model) could potentially be adaptable beyond the immediate disciplinary fields involved in their proposal. The proposals should be designed from the viewpoint of graduate-level STEM research/training, and globally engaged STEM workforce development. The proposals should be grounded in relevant literature on graduate STEM research/training, education, and graduate level international experiences.
Deadlines: Full proposal - September 10, 2019
NIH: Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
NIH’s program in Dissemination and Implementation Research is supported by 14 Institutes and 3 Offices within the Office of the Director. The purpose of the program is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (“de-implement”) the use of interventions that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. There are three coordinated funding opportunity announcements:
Deadlines: NIH Standard dates apply, through 5/8/2022
The National Institute of Aging is looking for applications that propose Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and/or Deep Learning approaches to identify gene mutations/variants that cause or contribute to the risk of or protection against the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This program is a cooperative agreement because NIA anticipates significant involvement in mediating access to already sequenced and phenotyped cohort data found in the National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS). Projects are limited to 5 years, with no budget limits.
Deadlines February 5th, June 5th, and October 5th (through 9/8/2022).


The NIDCR, NIEHS, and NICHD solicit applications that use animal models, in vitro systems, or ex vivo approaches to conduct mechanistic investigation of the interplay of genes/gene networks and environmental factors in dental, oral, craniofacial (DOC), and other diseases and conditions. This program is intended to foster research towards a better understanding of the biological mechanisms of gene-environment interplay in human diseases and conditions.

Deadlines February 5th, June 5th, and October 5th (through 9/8/2022).
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