The National Science Foundation recently circulated this announcement about programs that have broadened their scope to include the social and behavioral sciences. These merit a closer look, as they provide outstanding funding opportunities for our college. If you have any questions about these opportunities, or to start the process for applying for funding, please contact me at tabirkla@ncsu.edu.
NC Humanities’ Large Grants funding opportunity provides up to $20,000 to support public humanities projects of a wide or extended scope. Projects are expected to connect the public to quality humanities scholarship through programs that respond to community interest, encourage dialogue, and stimulate audiences to think critically about a broad range of humanities topics. Please note, a phone consultation is a required as part of the Large Grant LOI submission process. Please click here to schedule.
LOI deadline: 4/21/2022
The RTI University Scholars Program will continue to prioritize applications for the 2022-2023 academic year from tenured or research-track faculty members at the Associate Professor level or higher with a commitment to collaboration and a research project related to racial equity and policy, broadly construed. RTI’s vision for achieving racial equity is to lead with compassion, execute with science, and transform by sharing what we learn.
The National Endowment for the Arts (Arts Endowment) supports projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. The work to be translated should be of interest for its literary excellence and merit. We encourage translations of writers and of work that are not well represented in English, as well as work that has not previously been translated into English.
The most recent issue of the Office of Faculty Excellence Newsletter includes the following fellowship opportunities, all of which touch on scholarship in our college. I encourage you to consider applying for these opportunities, and to share this with your colleagues. If you are interested in applying and have questions, please feel free to contact Maria Almanza, as noted below, or Tom Birkland at any time.
What does equity mean to you and to your research? The deans of the colleges of Humanities and Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Design, Natural Resources, Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Poole College of Management, Wilson College of Textiles, the Graduate School, and the Division of Academic and Student Affairs in collaboration with the university’s Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity, the Office of Research and Innovation and Research Leadership Academy are pleased to announce the inaugural Equity Research Symposium.
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers from across NC State’s campus to share and catalyze new cutting-edge, equity-focused and equity-relevant research. Students, faculty, postdocs and staff are eligible to make presentations on their research. A keynote address will be delivered by Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Director of Opportunity Insights, whose work focuses on equity, race, and mobility in the United States.
From a recent notice shared by the university: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- Health Policy Fellows Program program provides the nation’s most comprehensive learning experience at the nexus of health, science, and policy in Washington, D.C. It is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral/social scientists with an interest in health and health care policy. Fellows participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health equity, health care, and health policy.
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program (DHAG) supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. The program also supports research that examines the history, criticism, ethics, and philosophy of digital culture or technology and its impact on society.
Application deadline: 1/14/2022
This headline, taken directly from a National Science Foundation announcement, speaks to NSF's efforts to support social and behavioral science research "examining the interactions of people and society with physical and digital infrastructure." They go on to say that "The cross-disciplinary projects are led by social and behavioral scientists collaborating with researchers from a wide range of fields including engineering, computer science, education, biology, mathematics, physical sciences and geosciences. ... For more information and a complete list of awards, see Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)." This news may inspire faculty in our college to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines to develop proposals for the NSF.
From NC Sea Grant, here are two excellent opportunities for graduate students, and one that supports undergraduates, that may be of interest to our departments. Please feel free to share widely.
For the NC State Community, the recording and presentation slides for the PDU's session on "What's New at NIH" on September 16 are now online at the PDU's NIH Resources Page under NC State Presentations. (Unity ID required), This is a very useful presentation for anyone interested in NIH funding.
After the jump, I list several COVID-related funding opportunities at NIH that may be of particular interest to social and behavioral scientists. Please let me know if you are interested in pursuing any of these opportunities.
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) has announced that it will hold a workshop for prospective CAREER award nominees on Wednesday, March 23, 2022, from 1 to 4 pm.
The NSF’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers support for early-career faculty seeking to build strong foundations for research and education in their respective fields. Faculty interested in submitting a CAREER proposal are invited to attend a workshop covering key aspects of proposal development. You will be able to register at the PDU homepage after the winter break.
This event is hosted by the PDU, as well as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Sciences, and the Wilson College of Textiles. All eligible faculty are welcome to apply--and our college has had some recent success in this program, so we strongly urge anyone interested in applying to attend this workshop, and to reach out to the college research office for assistance.
This year’s series may be of special interest to early career researchers and scholars who are new to NC State. Please consider attending and encourage your colleagues and research collaborators to attend as well.
From the Proposal Development Unit: This year's series focuses on helping investigators navigate the language and trends unique to the NIH grants culture.
Following is a short announcement and link to Facebook Fellowships for PhD students. Don't let the description deter you from taking a look! Several of the ideas in which Facebook is interested are areas of interest to our PhD students, including computational social science, technology policy research, privacy and data use, and various aspects of AR/VR and human/computer interaction. See the link below for more details.
Following are several funding opportunities related to COVID-19 research. If you are interested in learning more or intend to submit a proposal, please contact the Research Office.
Here are two seminars in September that will be of interest to researchers in our college.The first is about new developments at the National Institutes of Health. The second is a more general discussion of how to find research funding using the tools available to you here at NC State. Please consider joining one or both of these seminars.
NC State/NIEHS Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) is announcing its request for applications (RFA) for pilot project proposals for fall of 2021. Applications are due on September 15, 2021 at 5:00 pm. EDT.
Here is the announcement for applications for the National Humanities Center Fellowships for AY 2022-23. Stay tuned for news about an event on campus that will provide additional information about how to successfully apply for these fellowships.
National Humanities Center Fellowships
Following are two important notices from the NSF regarding funding programs in Sociology and in Accountable Institutions and Behavior (political science, for the most part). As always, if you are interested in applying to either of these programs, and haven't already done so, please contact the research office. Even if you don't plan to submit for the August deadlines, the programs also have deadlines in January 22 that you may wish to target.
On July 20, 2021 from 1:00-4:00 PM ET, NIH will be convening a symposium entitled “A Match Made in Science: Integrating Bioethics and Biomedical Research” to highlight the integral role that bioethics plays in advancing science and to discuss strategies for fostering collaboration between bioethicists and biomedical researchers. Participants will discuss concrete examples of how integrating bioethics into biomedical research has strengthened research outcomes and share practical advice for initiating and sustaining successful collaborations. The webinar stream will be available here.
Colleagues, due to an oversight on my part, the following announcement about the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Salary program for Summer 2022, which was distributed university-wide on May 25, was not flagged in the college research blog. The university will nominate two scholars, one of which may come from our college.
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
This is a reminder that the UGPN Research Collaboration Fund proposals are due very soon: Monday, June 21. Details are at https://global.ncsu.edu/ugpn/
The Open Knowledge Center (OKC) invites proposals for short (1 semester) to longer (1-2 year) research collaborations for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years. Proposals are welcomed from any discipline or field, and from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at any rank. We are seeking projects that align with the values of the OKC, namely: openness, collaboration, critical engagement, evolution in research practices, curiosity, experimentation, and commitment to support under-resourced or traditionally marginalized scholars and areas of research.
Rip Apart a Data Management Plan
Monday, July 12, 2021 from 2:00pm-3:30pm
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. These grants support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systems changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into local strategies for strengthening communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Cost share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
The 2021 cycle of the Non-laboratory Scholarship/Research Support Program (NSRP) is now open. NSRP is designed to support scholarship/research needs in disciplines not driven by instrument-dependent and lab-based research. Such disciplines may include, but are not limited to, social sciences, humanities, education, design, management, and libraries. These fields require other types of resources or infrastructure such as database access, survey instruments and panels, measurement tools, and travel to field sites and archives. In an effort to strengthen infrastructure and the overall research and scholarship enterprise, priority will be given to proposals that support multiple NC State scholars and/or multiple projects at the university.
This announcement was shared broadly by our university Federal Affairs director
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) just announced two new funding opportunities to rapidly distribute American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funding to cultural organizations and educational institutions adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. These funding opportunities will provide direct grants to individual humanities institutions and grantmaking organizations to distribute as competitive subawards to affected organizations and individuals. These two grant programs aim to help the humanities community recover from the economic burdens of the pandemic, enable the reopening of humanities institutions and programs, and support the retention of the humanities workforce.
The National Science Foundation, in conjunction with its counterparts from several countries in the Americas, Europe, and Africa have announced a major initiative on "recovery, renewal and resilience in a post-pandemic world.
The National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter describing a new framework for the explanation of broader impacts in proposals submitted to SBE programs. As the DCL notes, "This "broader impacts framework" in no way alters NSF's existing criteria ‒ rather, it offers guidance on how to consider and convey broader impacts in ways that are easier for others to understand." If you are planning to write a proposal for NSF, you will want to review this letter carefully. Other directorates have not adopted this framework, but have acknowledged that it may provide proposal writers with a good way of framing their broader impacts narratives in other proposals. Please review the letter carefully, and let the Research Office know if you have any questions.
The Request for Proposals for the 2021 Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) program is now available at this link. (You must be logged in as an NC State user to follow this link). Please note that the deadline is April 19, 2021.
Please send any questions to Tom Birkland at tabirkla@ncsu.edu
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) recently updated its Department of Defense (DoD) resources webpage. Please visit the site if you are interested in seeking DoD grant funding. In particular, the Minerva Research Initiative is of particular interest to social and behavioral scientists.
The university has shared these funding opportunities from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for Industrial Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Arts
Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE)
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) invites the NC State community to a spring webinar series that will provide you with insights and techniques to think strategically about grant writing. The PDU will balance general guidance with specific examples to help faculty navigate differences among major funding agencies (e.g. NSF, NIH, DOD).
Before 2020-21, our college had never had a faculty member win an NSF CAREER award. Now, we have two awardees this year! We very strongly encourage you to look into this if you are a junior faculty member, or to share this with any junior colleague who may find this interesting. Of course, feel free to ask Tom Birkland (tabirkla@ncsu.edu) if you have any questions.
NSF’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers support for early-career faculty seeking to build strong foundations for research and education in their respective fields. Faculty interested in submitting a CAREER proposal are invited to attend a workshop covering key aspects of proposal development. The workshop, hosted by the Proposal Development Unit (PDU) in the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and College of Sciences (COS), will be held virtually from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday March 24, 2021.
The January 2021 issue of Research Development and Grant Writing News has been posted to: go.ncsu.edu/research-news. The Research Development Office (RDO) maintains an institutional-level subscription allowing us to distribute freely within NC State University. Please note that the first two articles in this issue are directly aimed at humanists and social scientists!
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting applications for the 2021 Fellowships program.
On February 9, from 12:30-3 pm EST, we will be offering a live webinar for administrators and prospective applicants to introduce the program, describe the application process, and offer application writing suggestions. There will be a chance to ask questions and captions will be available. The webinar will be recorded so that others can watch it later. Please feel free to share this information with your faculty.
NC State University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in NeuroComputational Ethics at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences beginning in April 2021.
Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19
The HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) anticipates funding for an initiative to demonstrate the effectiveness of local “grassroots” efforts to improve the access, use and outcomes of vaccination, testing, contact tracing and health behaviors related to COVID-19 among racial and ethnic minority populations, including those in rural communities. OMH expects projects funded through this initiative to: 1) use evidence-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate health literacy strategies to increase health literacy for COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, vaccination and/or other mitigation measures (e.g., public health prevention practices); and 2) document participation in COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, vaccination and/or other mitigation measures (e.g., public health prevention practices). This program will align with, but not duplicate, existing federal efforts to disseminate resources for COVID-19 responses.
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry to published creative writers that enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the submitted manuscript. Through this program, the Arts Endowment seeks to sustain and nurture a diverse range of creative writers at various stages of their careers and to continue to expand the portfolio of American art.
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) invites the NC State community to a spring webinar series that will provide you with insights and techniques to think strategically about grant writing. The PDU will balance general guidance with specific examples to help faculty navigate differences among major funding agencies (e.g. NSF, NIH, DOD).
Upcoming:
The Strengthening The Impact of Research (STIR) program seeks to enhance NC State’s capacity to design and conduct research with broad impacts on society by creating and supporting the first cohort of NC State Impact Scholars.
This group of 10-12 selected Impact Scholars will attend a series of five, 90-minute workshops in Spring 2021 to strengthen their capacity to create innovative research impacts on society and write more competitive grant proposals. Impact Scholars will also design and implement a project of their own, and conduct a Research Impacts workshop in their department. With support from the Office of Outreach and Engagement, Impact Scholars will receive $1,000 to support their project expenses.
North Carolina Sea Grant uses a two-step process for its core funding. Initially, researchers submit preproposals that outline the research topic, its need within the state, the approach and strategy, and the team to be assembled. The second step, known as full proposals, will take place later this year. A preproposal is required before a full proposal can be submitted for the final competitive review.
The December 2020 issue of Research Development and Grant Writing News has been posted to: go.ncsu.edu/research-news. The Research Development Office (RDO) maintains an institutional-level subscription allowing us to distribute freely within NC State University.