COVID-19: Multiple Funding Opportunities at NIH

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.

Early notice: NSF CAREER Workshop

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.

PDU@Lunch Webinar Series 2020-21

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. 

NIH@NC State Grant Writing Series 2021

From the Proposal Development Unit: This year's series focuses on helping investigators navigate the language and trends unique to the NIH grants culture. 

Facebook Fellowship Program for PhD students

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.

Various Funding Opportunities for COVID-Related Research

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.

Two September Seminars from the Proposal Development Unit

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.

Center for Human Health and the Environment - Request for Pilot Project Applications

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.

Individual awards will range upwards to $25,000 (direct cost) for one year and CHHE expects to fund up to five proposals. CHHE will also award up to two $50,000 proposals (direct costs) for dual-investigator, multi-disciplinary collaborative research which requires additional funding and separate budgets. CHHE full members can now use the STC Voucher Program Funds for STC services that are part of a CHHE PPP.  

National Humanities Center Fellowships 2022-23

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

Two programs at NSF: Sociology, and Accountable Institutions and Behavior

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. 

Integrating Bioethics within Research Symposium July 20, 2021 from 1:00-4:00 PM ET.

 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.

2022 NEH Summer Stipends: NOI Due July 16

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. 

If you are interested in this opportunity please reply as directed below by July 16 or sooner. The NOI form is very simple and will take just a few minutes for faculty to fill in. 

NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

This note is from the National Science Foundation. Our college has had some good recent success in landing career award winners. Please contact the research office if you plan to submit a grant application or if you have any questions about this opportunity. 

Proposals due SOON: University Global Partnership Network Research Collaboration Fund

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/ 

Open Knowledge Center RFP

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.

Workshop on Data Management Plans--June 12

 Rip Apart a Data Management Plan 

Monday, July 12, 2021 from 2:00pm-3:30pm  

Online only

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 improving data management plans in the science and social sciences. You will have opportunities to share your questions and frustrations on writing and executing data management plans, and to get feedback from librarians and peers. Questions? Contact Kristy Borda (kmborda@ncsu.edu) or Beth Ashmore (beashmor@ncsu.edu)

Click here to register >>

National Endowment for the Arts: Our Town

 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.

Non-laboratory Scholarship/Research Support Program (NSRP) Call for Proposals: Due September 30, 2021

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.

National Endowment for the Humanities: Media Projects

The Media Projects program supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, long-form documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship and demonstrate an approach that is thoughtful, balanced, and analytical. Media Projects offers two levels of funding: Development and Production. More information is available at the link above. 

American Rescue Plan Funding for the Humanities

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.