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Sr. Vice President for Research & Economic Development
Proposal Services & Faculty Support
April Funding Focus Newsletter #1
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What is a Limited Submission?
A limited submission solicitation places a cap on the number of proposals Auburn may submit to a sponsor. Auburn coordinates limited submissions with notifications via this newsletter and competitions created in the Auburn University Competition Space (InfoReady).
To apply to any limited submission posted in this newsletter, click on the link within the announcement. Please refer to the Limited Submission Procedures page for a general list of requirements.
Found a Limited Submission opportunity that interests you?
If so, please contact the PSFS office sooner than later so that an internal competition can be created for a timely, university-wide, fair and equitable selection process that allows for ample time for review, feedback and revisions.
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This is a re-issue of this competition originally run in the March 7 Funding Focus edition.
NSF: Materials Innovation Platforms
Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in DMR that supports transdisciplinary research and training, cutting-edge tools, and knowledge sharing in key enabling areas of national priority. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other scientists who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.
This competition focuses on the following complex materials: alloys, amorphous, and composite materials.
Institutional Limit: 1 Application
Internal Deadline: April 14, 2025, 4:45pm
Funder Deadline: May 15, 2025, 5:00pm CT
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This is a re-issue of this competition originally run in the March 7 Funding Focus edition.
NIH: Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single piece of new, costly, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. It is expected that the instrument, by augmenting institutional research capabilities, will invigorate current research, contribute to opportunities for novel research projects, stimulate new collaborations, and increase overall research competitiveness. Moreover, a broader research community at the applicant or regional institution(s) should benefit from access to the instrument.
The program requires that three Major Users with NIH-funded research projects demonstrate significant need for the requested instrument.
Institutional Limit: 1 Application
Internal Deadline: April 14, 2025, 4:45pm
Funder Deadline: June 2, 2025, 5:00pm CT
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Brain Research Foundation: Scientific Innovations Award
This program's objective is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings. It is expected that investigations supported by these grants will yield high-impact findings and result in major grant applications and funding as well as significant publications in high-impact journals.
The nominee must be a full-time associate professor/full professor working in neuroscience, neurology, neurobiology, physiology, psychiatry, psychology, or related disciplines, proposing scientific projects with a focus on brain health and disease, including cancer. Current major NIH or other peer-reviewed funding is preferred but evidence of such funding in the past three years is essential.
Institutional Limit: 1 Application
Internal Deadline: April 21, 2025, 4:45pm
Funder LOI Deadline: June 3, 2025, 5:00pm ET
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USDOT: Safe Streets and Roads for All
The purpose of SS4A grants is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through the development of Action Plans focused on all users: pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, and commercial vehicle operators.
This program provides funding to develop tools to strengthen a community’s approach to roadway safety and save lives and is designed to meet the needs of local, Tribal, and regional communities that differ dramatically in size, location, and experience administering Federal funding.
The program provides funding for two main types of grants: 1) Planning and Demonstration Grants for Action Plans and 2) Implementation Grants.
Recipients are required to contribute a local matching share of no less than 20 percent of
total eligible project costs.
Institutional Limit: 1 Application
Internal Deadline: April 23, 2025, 4:45pm
Funder Deadline: June 26, 2025, 5:00pm ET
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Creative Collisions Lunch Workshop
Where Creative Scholarship and Scientific Research Converge
April 22, 2025
11:30am - 1:00pm
The Auburn Alumni Center
Faculty are invited to the inaugural Creative Collisions lunch workshop - a collaboration between Creative Showcase and the Team Science Series, sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development.
This event offers interdisciplinary research collaborations among the arts & humanities and the sciences for diverse scholarly perspectives that will foster new ideas, innovative methods and transformative discoveries.
Don’t miss this opportunity to spark unexpected research collaborations!
Registration closes April 15.
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Amazon Research Awards
Multiple opportunities are available:
Amazon Ads
To protect customers from fraud, abuse, illegal and harmful content Amazon Ads welcomes proposals in the context of digital advertising in the following research tracks.
AI for Information Security
Amazon seeks to fund AI research on the following topics in information security.
Think Big
This call specifically targets research across all scientific disciplines with visionary, pioneering ideas.
Build on Trainium
Build on Trainium is a $110MM credit program focused on AI research and university education to support the next generation of innovation and development on AWS Trainium.
AWS AI: Agentic AI
AWS AI aims to advance agentic AI research by funding development of open-source tools and research that benefit the AI community at large, or impactful research related to agents.
Submissions for All Research Awards Due: April 30, 2025, 11:59pm PT
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PCORI: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Topical
PCORI is seeking to fund high-quality, patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research projects that focus on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) - chronic disabilities that originate at birth or in the developmental period and resulting in differing levels of support in physical, learning, language and/or behavioral areas. PCORI is particularly interested in submissions that address the following Special Areas of Emphasis:
Oral Health: Research comparing interventions that could improve oral hygiene/self-care, increase access to dental care, improve satisfaction with dental care or reduce pain and discomfort during oral health treatment.
Gastrointestinal Health: Research comparing interventions that improve the GI health of individuals with IDD focusing on improving screening and diagnostic accuracy, identifying appropriate treatments through adapting/tailoring current interventions to the IDD population, health communication and/or shared decision-making strategies.
Improving Care Delivery: Research comparing systems-level care delivery strategies to improve health outcomes including quality of life, increased community participation, healthcare utilization and patient-centered economic costs.
LOIs Due: May 13, 2025, 5pm ET
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Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature
Sony aims to recognize and celebrate the remarkable women spearheading advancements in technology, driving positive change for society and the planet. By spotlighting these achievements, Sony hopes to inspire and empower the next generation of women in technology.
Applications Due: May 30, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)
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Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through seven years, in the United States. Welfare is broadly defined to include physical and mental health, safety, nutrition, education, play, familial support, acculturation, societal integration and childcare. The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement imaginative proposals exhibiting the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale.
The Foundation provides funding in the following areas:
Early Childhood Welfare
Early Childhood Education and Play
Parenting Education
LOIs Due: May 31, 2025
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NVIDIA Academic Research Grant Program
The NVIDIA Academic Grant Program advances academic research by providing world-class computing access and resources to researchers. NVIDIA is currently accepting proposals in the following these areas.
Projects must be accelerated with NVIDIA technology.
Proposals accepted anytime. PIs can submit one proposal per quarter for a maximum of 4 proposals annually.
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CCTS Webinar: How to Work Effectively Within Teams
Friday April 11, 2025
12:00 noon - 1:00pm
via Zoom
Dr. Joel Dobbs (Fall 2024 Team Science presenter) will share proven techniques and strategies for building and maintaining high-performing teams, navigating common pitfalls, and leveraging individual strengths to achieve successful collaborations.
Register Here.
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Hanover Research Webinars
Creative Grant Seeking in a Challenging Landscape
Thursday, April 24, 2025
11:00am CT
This webinar will illustrate how a combination of creative design and resourceful grant seeking — such as exploring foundations or clearly articulating impact — can give PIs promising pathways to pursue even amidst a changing landscape.
Register Here.
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Considering a Postdoc? Virtual Panel Discussion
Friday, April 25, 2025
9:30am - 10:30am or 1:30pm - 2:30 pm
via ZOOM
Graduate students considering a postdoctoral position after graduation and curious about what a postdoc really involves are invited to attend a virtual panel discussion where current postdocs will share their journeys, research experiences, and insights on transitioning into postdoctoral roles.
Doctoral students and master’s students are welcome to attend as well as mentors of graduate students also are welcome. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and explore what a postdoc could look like for you.
Session #1 - 9:30am - 10:30am
Session #2 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm
RSVP Jennifer Kerpelman to indicate preferred session and receive Zoom link.
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NASA (and other agencies) International Requirements
Reminder: When Auburn submits a proposal to NASA, we are representing that the proposer “is not China or a Chinese-owned company, and that the proposer will not participate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally with China or any Chinese-owned company, at the prime recipient level or at any subrecipient level, whether the bilateral involvement is funded or performed under a no-exchange-of-funds basis, except to the extent NASA has notified the grant proposer that NASA has sought a waiver for such activities pursuant to Pub. L. 118-42 Sec. 526”, NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM), [effective March 21, 2025].
For more information and clarification on this Assurance and the latest information from each agency in regard to both international collaborations and disclosure requirements, consult the International Collaboration Guidance webpage on the SPVPRED website.
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Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability
Slots available April 7 - April 18 and after June 24
Auburn University has partnered with Hanover Research for a number of grant development solutions including Pre-proposal Support; Proposal Development; and Capacity Building. Hanover's full-service grant development solutions are available to set goals, build strategies to achieve key grant-seeking objectives, and develop grant proposals that are well-planned, researched, and written.
For information regarding Hanover’s core capabilities and project timelines, click here. If you are interested in a slot in the queue, please e-mail Tony Ventimiglia.
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Hanover GLC Modules for NIH, NSF-CAREER & Grant Development
The Hanover Research Grants Learning Center (GLC) on-demand grant development training portal offers faculty enrollees the unique opportunity to receive targeted training through self-paced, interactive modules with step-by-step guidance and templates for prospective applicants to develop compelling proposals. In addition to NIH and NSF-CAREER modules, AU faculty now have access to a variety of new modules on grant seeking, development and revisions.
Auburn faculty interested in signing up for this training should contact Christine Cline for registration information.
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Research Development and Grantwriting Newsletter
This online publication is a great source for current STEM and Humanities funding opportunities, tips and resources. Published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, access is available only for Auburn University faculty, staff and students with a valid user ID.
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Free CITI Training Modules
Auburn subscribes to several training modules via the CITI Program website that may be of interest to researchers and research administrators. Each module is self-paced and can be finished in one or multiple sessions. Click on the link above to read descriptions.
- Essentials of Grant Proposal Development
- Essentials of Research Administration
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Training and Resources
Access CITI Training, federal funding training and the Hanover Research webinar archive.
Proposal Writing Guides
Access the Auburn University PI Handbook, agency guides and more to help you write a successful proposal.
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