ON HOLD: Request for Proposals: NC State Extension, Engagement, & Economic Development Seed Grant (Due January 29th)

ON HOLD. Per this note received December 16

The SEED Grant program is temporarily on hold, while Dr. Terri Helmlinger Ratcliff, Vice Provost for the Office of Outreach & Engagement, and Dr. Alan Rebar, Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development have time to review the current program guidelines, past results and identify and secure appropriate funding resources.  Helmlinger Ratcliff and Rebar are committed to refocusing the SEED Grant program for greater impact in line with Pathway to the Future and institutional priorities moving forward.

Funding Opportunities (some are limited submission)

Colleagues,

Following are funding opportunities of interest to our faculty. The first two are limited submission opportunities, so you will need to indicate your interest (not the full application) by this Friday, December 18. Others are open submission. Let me know if you have any questions about this, and let me and Missy Seate know if you intend to apply.

Limited Submission Announcements

New Research Funding Opportunities in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Colleagues, the Office for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development has shared with us these funding opportunities, which will be of considerable interest in the college. Please share with interested parties and let my office know if you plan to apply.

Opal Mann Green Engagement and Scholarship Award--Call for Nominations

Opal Mann Green Engagement and Scholarship Award Rules

History

Dr. Opal Hurley Mann Green, former faculty member and leader at the county, state, and national level within Cooperative Extension, led an illustrious professional career spanning from 1943 to 1982, and then served as a community leader until 2009.  Her lifelong teaching, leadership, and positive modeling to others was congruent with John Dewey’s ideas of democracy in education, and in the community. (See: http://www.sobreroraleigh.com/tribute%20to%20Opal%20Mann%20Green.html). She exhibited these values throughout her career, family life, and community volunteer life.

Proposal Preparation Program (New for 2015-16)

Proposal Preparation Program (New for 2015-16)

Is your proposal almost ready to submit, but you need to do some work to complete it? Do you need support to resubmit a promising but so-far unfunded proposal?

To facilitate the timely completion of proposals for external funding, the College’s Research Office may be able to offer up to $3000 in funding for a range of activities that would help to strengthen a grant or fellowship proposal. Such activities include supporting pilot studies, travel to archives or other facilities, funding grad students for data entry for a pilot study, visits to a program officer or other funding official, or engaging a consultant to evaluate the proposal, manuscript, data analysis, and the like.

You may apply for support by providing the following information in a form found at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/ppp/index.php

Submission Guidelines

Applications are accepted and evaluated on an on-going basis. The applications will be reviewed by the Associate Dean for Research, who may call upon members of the research committee for advice and input.

Please be sure to submit your PPP application to the research office no later than 7 months before your grant proposal deadline. This is a firm deadline.

Data management support from the NCSU Libraries

Colleagues, I received this from Hilary Davis in the NCSU Libraries. The libraries have done some great work in helping faculty with data management planning. Please share the following information with your colleagues.

More and more funding agencies require researchers to include data management plans with their grant proposals and share articles and data resulting from funded research.  

The NCSU Libraries provides free guidance to NC State faculty, staff, post-docs, and students on creating and implementing data management plans and meeting public access compliance requirements.  Our consultation includes advice on data types and standards for describing data, options for short-term storage and long-term preservation, and considerations for sharing research outputs and public access compliance.

As a starting point, visit the NCSU Data Management Planning guide:  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/datamanagement/  

• Review the main components of a data management plan
• Check the requirements of your funding source
• Draft a data management plan on your own or use the DMPTool to create a downloadable draft
• Send us your DMP draft to review: https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dmpreview
• Questions?  Contact us at library_datamanagement@ncsu.edu

If you or your colleagues are interested in one-on-one consultation or a group workshop, feel free to let me know.  We'd be happy to customize a presentation or a hands-on workshop to meet your needs.

Hilary

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Hilary Davis
Head of Collection Management & Director of Research Data Services
NCSU Libraries
Box 7111
2 Broughton Drive
Raleigh, NC 27695
fax: 919-515-7854
phone: 919-513-0654
hmdavis4@ncsu.edu

Restricted Data Application System

The college's IT staff have worked with us to develop an on-line tool for faculty who are applying for the use of restricted data sets. 

This tool will be used by our faculty when they apply to obtain a set of data, such as from a government agency, that carries with it important restrictions, such as who can access the data, in what form it is made available to us (CDs, online, etc.), and, when the data access agreement expires, how the original dataset is returned or destroyed. 

College faculty must complete a simple on-line form when applying to use such data. This system will also help alert us when the data use agreement requires a university signature. 

The on-line system is at http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/restricted_data/

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this system. Day to day management of this system will be Joyce Christian's responsibility.

Writing a Research Grant Application: Tips for Success

On October 23rd, Dr. Marie Davidian presented a webinar entitled "Writing a Research Grant Application: Tips for Success."  If you, or someone you know, did not get the chance to attend, the recording of the webinar, along with Dr. Davidian's slides, can be found at the link below (under the "Webinars" heading at the bottom of the webpage).  You can access the site using your unity ID and password (that is, it is only available to NC State users)

http://research.ncsu.edu/intranet/pdu

ACLS Public Fellows Call for Applications

ACLS is currently accepting applications from organizations wishing to host a 2016 ACLS Public Fellow. Online applications will be accepted from recent PhDs starting in January 2016.

The ACLS Public Fellows program places recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. The fellowship provides a stipend of $65,000 per year as well as individual health insurance.

This program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to expand the reach of doctoral education in the US by demonstrating that the capacities developed in the advanced study of the humanities have wide application, both within and beyond the academy.

The ACLS Public Fellows program involves two separate application processes each program year:

In the fall, nonprofit and government organizations apply for the opportunity to host an ACLS Public Fellow, who will take up his or her appointment in the following year. For more information, visit 

Apply to Host an ACLS Public Fellow

In the spring, recent humanities PhDs who meet the program's eligibility requirements apply for two-year fellowship placements at one of the year's selected host organizations. For more information about becoming an ACLS Public Fellow, visit

ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs

Questions about this program may be directed topublicfellows@acls.org.

Chancellor's Innovation Fund Lunch and Learn - Writing a Winning Proposal

Chancellor's Innovation Fund Lunch and Learn - Writing a Winning Proposal

National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship Program

I received this interesting opportunity from the NSF. Note that the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences are considered part of the S in STEM (NSF is good about this).

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Dear Colleagues:

Please feel free to share this resource for graduate students. We look forward to receiving proposals from your graduate students. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship Program provides U.S. graduate students in science and engineering with an opportunity to spend 8 weeks (10 weeks for Japan) during the summer conducting research at one of the seven host locations in East Asia and Pacific: Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan. The program is a collaboration between NSF and counterpart agencies in each host location.

Research opportunities with the Veterans Administration (VA)

One of our colleagues pointed me to two documents that the VA would like to share with you. The VA is interested in partnering with university researchers. They have no funding of their own, but they are interested in working with researchers to seek other sources of funding and undertake research.

The first, summary document is on "Research and Analysis Initiatives," at http://www.va.gov/op3/docs/StrategicPlanning/OPP_Research_and_Analysis_Initiatives.pdf

The second is a longer document, "Veterans Policy Research Agenda," at http://www.va.gov/op3/docs/StrategicPlanning/VPRA_FY15_Published_Version_9_5_14.pdf

Given the large number of veterans who live and retire in our state, there are likely some excellent opportunities for research and engagement with which you might want to partner with VA. Of course, I will help facilitate these discussions if you like.

Updates from Humanities Indicators

Colleagues,

I receive periodic updates from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), called "Humanities Indicators." I believe you will find these indicators interesting in your scholarship. There are trends that should concern us, but there's also information here that can help us build confidence in the value of humanities scholarship and of a degree in the humanities--news our students can use. The latest update follows. The images are a bit fuzzy, but you can click on them to see them more clearly.

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Over the past few months, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has been active in its support for the humanities, with new reports on the employment status and earnings of humanities majors, the financial health of not-for-profit humanities organizations, metrics on the qualifications of school teachers, international comparisons of levels of adult literacy, and trends in public reading rates.

RTI University Scholars Program

Colleagues, I received this very exciting announcement today. Please share it with your colleagues. Let me know if you have any questions--I have begun some discussions with RTI that may help sharpen our focus on opportunities there, and I will share what I learn when I learn it.

RTI University Scholars Program

Information for Applicants – 2016-2017 Academic Year

RTI International is one of the world’s leading research institutes, dedicated to

improving the human condition
 by turning knowledge into practice.
The RTI University Scholars Program provides support—one-half of each Scholar’s salary and fringe—for distinguished academic researchers to spend scholarly leave time at RTI International, actively collaborating with our experts.
The goal of the program is to foster collaboration and catalyze opportunities for externally funded, joint projects in the future.

General Qualifications

The ideal applicant is an academic faculty member with a commitment to collaboration and a strong research record in one of the following fields:
• Health and pharmaceuticals
• Education and training

• Surveys and statistics

• Advanced technology
• International development

• Economic and social policy

• Energy and the environment

• Laboratory testing and chemical analysis.

2016-2017 Eligibility and Priority Areas

Call for Applications: Mark L. Sosower Fund to Support Faculty Research Travel

Call for Applications

Mark L. Sosower Fund

to support faculty research travel

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites applications for support for research travel as called for in the terms of the Mark L. Sosower Fund. The purpose of the fund is:

To provide support for faculty travel for research. Awards will be available to all CHASS faculty. Awards will be made by a committee, to be chaired by the head of the Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures

A review committee has been formed, consisting of Dr. Ruth Gross, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and chair of this committee, Drs. Martha Crowley (Sociology and Anthropology), Akram Khater (History, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies), and Shevaun Neupert (Psychology). Dr. Tom Birkland, Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, will staff the committee, but is not a member.

The committee seeks applications for support for research and scholarly travel. This call for applications is not for conference travel. Rather, the fund was intended to assist faculty in funding travel for doing research and scholarship, including but not limited to fieldwork, visits to libraries and archives, and similar research-related travel expenses. We will consider funding to work with collaborators, although such proposals will need to be well justified. We will not fund visits to research funders under this call—the college will soon inaugurate a separate program for this.

Priority will be given to projects that show high scholarly promise, and for which travel is a necessary element of the research or scholarship. Such funds will not be granted to faculty with existing external or internal funding. Scholars who have applied for this year’s round of SRA’s are eligible to apply, and may be funded through one program or the other, but not both.

How to apply:

Grant opportunities from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Colleagues, this comes to us from the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Please let me know if you are interested in pursuing these opportunities. 



Dear Colleagues:

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting applications that address specific challenges defined in the grant programs below. For details and application instructions, please visit the new Grand Challenges website. Please note that descriptions of the challenges are available on the website in Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Writing a Research Grant Application: Tips for Success (WEBINAR)

Date: Friday, October 23rd, 2015

Time: 10:30am -12:00pm EST (45 min presentation, 45 min Q&A)

Registration Link: http://ofd.ncsu.edu/events-and-programs/workshops/?epl_action=process_cart_action&cart_action=add&event_id=5563&_rand=55fc09e2a2ea1

                                  

This webinar will be presented by Dr. Marie Davidian (William Neal Reynolds Professor, Department of Statistics, NC State University), and hosted by the Proposal Development Unit. Writing grant applications for external funding is a key expectation for faculty at all levels. Success in securing grant awards provides critical resources to support one’s research and is a form of peer recognition. This webinar will review general strategies for writing a high-quality, successful grant application.

To register for the webinar, click on the Registration Link provided above (registration is required).  After you register, a WebEx link to the webinar will be provided a few days before the event.

If you have questions, please contact Patrick Crowley in the Proposal Development Unit at (919) 515-7585 or by e-mail at epcrowle@ncsu.edu.

Chancellor's Innovation Fund - preproposals due November 4th

Dear Colleagues,

The Office of Technology Transfer is now accepting pre-proposal submissions for the next funding cycle of the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund.  Established by Chancellor Randy Woodson, this fund serves as a resource to assist NCSU innovators with reduction to practice or technology/product development needed to strengthen the commercial potential of intellectual property disclosed to OTT.

CIF awards of up to $75,000 are designed to support short-term (one year or less) commercially-focused research projects. Proposed CIF projects ideally incorporate study endpoints designed to directly address license-enabling milestones required by potential licensees.  Anticipated outcomes include new licensing opportunities or the launch of a new university startup company.

The submission deadline for preproposals is November 4th.   Please note that all preproposal submissions must be associated with an invention disclosure on file with OTT.  For additional details related to eligibility, proposal process, criteria, and submission, please visit our CIF homepage. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.  Please forward this solicitation as we would like a wide range of applicants from across NCSU's vibrant innovation landscape.

Sincerely,

Kelly

Kelly B. Sexton, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Technology Transfer
North Carolina State University
(919) 515-7199 (phone)
(919) 515-3773 (fax)

Research and Innovation Seed Funding: Deadline October 2, 2015

ORIED is accepting proposals for the Fall 2015 cycle for RISF until October 2, 2014 [I think they mean 2015].  For details please go to go.ncsu.edu/risf or http://research.ncsu.edu/rdo/funding/internal-funding/risf/research-and-innovation-seed-funding-program/

Applications are accepted through CompetitionSpace at https://ncsu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1741451 (log in with unity ID is required to apply).

For questions, please contact Bonnie Aldridge at research-development@ncsu.edu.

Scholarship and Research Award (SRA) RFP for 2015-16

Humanities and Social Sciences
 Scholarship and Research Award (SRA)

Fiscal Year 2015-2016

Announcement, Proposal Guidelines, and Procedures

Key Dates:

Proposal Deadline: September 23, 2015. 9:00 PM

Research Committee Review: September 23, 2015 to October 5, 2016

Awards Announced: No later than October 12, 2015

Spending on awards completed by: May 31, 2016

Maximum Budget:  $4000

The Humanities and Social Sciences Research Office is pleased to announce the call and guidelines for the CHASS Scholarship and Research Awards (SRAs). These awards are intended to assist faculty in their scholarly pursuits. Applications are due electronically (in PDF format) to the Research Office by 9:00 PM, Wednesday, September 23, 2015. The SRA cover page and CV page must be included (see http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/research/resources/funding/scholarly.php). Please email your complete application to mailto:chass-rsrch@ncsu.edu  and to Tom Birkland (mailto:tabirkla@ncsu.edu). Awards will be announced in mid-October.

Please note: This will be the final year in which the SRA program is offered. Starting in Spring 2016, the College will be making these awards as part of the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) program. This change will enable faculty to use funds across an entire fiscal year. Details will become available in the Spring.