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From the Data Science Academy:
NC State’s Data Science Academy (DSA) is pleased to announce its 2022 Seed Grant program. This program, developed in collaboration with the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), aims to increase interdisciplinary data science research at NC State by building and strengthening interdisciplinary networks among NC State researchers with shared interests in data science.
See more in the image after the jump, or visit http://go.ncsu.edu/DSASeedGrants
You and your faculty are invited to attend “Rip Apart a Data Management Plan” — an online workshop hosted by the NC State University Libraries — on Friday, April 15, from 1:30 to 2:50 p.m.
This workshop will discuss the basic elements of data management plans, using real examples to demonstrate best practices. The workshop will include hands-on practice with improving data management plans.
From the University:
NC State is calling on graduate students, undergraduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff to take part in Envisioning Research, the university’s annual research image contest. Help us highlight the beauty and importance of the work being done at the bench and in the field, both on campus and around the world. (And, yes, there are cash prizes.)
For more information and to register see https://news.ncsu.edu/2022/02/envisioning-research-kickoff-2022
The NSF has announced its Civic Innovation Challenge Q&A Session. Two sessions will be hold, one on March 10, 2022 from 3 to 4 pm, and the other on March 22, 2022, from 2 to 3 pm. See details about this Q&A at this link and see details on the solicitation here. There is also a webinar about the program on February 25 from 1:30 to 3 pm. Details on the webinar are available here.
Registration is open for an upcoming workshop focused on the National Science Foundation's prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.
The Proposal Development Unit (PDU) has brought to my attention the NSF's Human Networks and Data Science program, https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/human-networks-and-data-science-hnds
NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines, and it encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. Applicants interested in research projects that are either born digital or require mainly digital expression and digital publication are encouraged to apply instead for NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication.
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.
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.