A limited submission solicitation (RFA, RFP, etc.) places a cap on the number of proposals that Auburn may submit to a sponsor. Auburn coordinates limited submissions by sending out a notification via this newsletter and creating competitions in the Auburn University Competition Space (also known as InfoReady). To apply to any limited submission posted in this newsletter, click on the link below and search for your competition listed on the page. Please refer to the Limited Submission Procedures page for a general list of requirements. However, it is recommended that you go to the specific competition as soon as possible and review the requirements to ensure that you are preparing what is requested since the required information for competitions may vary.

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.

Alabama Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (aka The Children’s Trust Fund) announces the availability of grant funding for child abuse and neglect prevention programs for program year 2024-2025.

ADCANP exists as a state agency with its own board, funding, and staff to be dedicated solely to prevent the state's growing problem of neglect and child abuse. The Children's Trust fund is looking to fund the following types of programs:

This opportunity requires a 50% match. The organization demonstrates an ability to match, through money or in-kind services, 50 percent of the amount of any trust fund money received. Not more than 50 percent of the local match shall be in-kind services.

To ensure future Hanover webinars align with your interests, PSFS requests your participation in a brief survey. By sharing your preferences for upcoming webinar topics, you’ll help shape the content offered.

The NSF regularly issues Dear Colleague Letters to encourage applicants for existing grant programs to emphasize areas of special interest to the agency.

This webinar provides an overview of this practice and discusses how grant-seekers can ensure they are responsive to these interests while developing competitive grant proposals.

This EPSCoR Live! session will be of particular interest to researchers and research admin leaders who would like to learn more about the building EPSCoR research ecosystems through the NSF E-CORE and E-RISE funding opportunities.

E-CORE focuses on the transformation of a jurisdiction's research ecosystem based on jurisdictional need, variation, and integration of core elements. It is intended to supplant the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Program, which will be archived in FY2024.

Advance registration is required. Please use an institutional email address for registration.

Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance through the registration form or by email.

NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is recruiting panelists for the EPSCoR Research Fellows funding opportunity, under solicitation NSF 24-528, which has a deadline of April 22, 2024.  

Interested parties may complete a reviewer recruitment survey to assist with the process of setting up merit review panels. Please note that panelist selection will be guided by proposal topics.  Panelists will be asked to write reviews before the panel meeting. If you are not selected for this year’s competition, you may be contacted for future competitions.

To be considered, please complete the survey that can be found here by April 30, 2024.

During this webinar NIFA will discuss tracking and spending USDA-NIFA Funds, NIFA's Public Data Dashboard, and Allowable Expenses and Policies.

This webinar is targeted for University Administration Officers, Research and Extension Programs Personnel, Sponsored Programs Personnel, or interested faculty.

For more information about dashboards, please visit the NIFA Grant Funding Dashboard page.

Register HERE.

Philadelphia, PA or virtual

(This workshop has a fee.)

The NSF Grants Conference provides new faculty, researchers, and administrators valuable insights into various current issues at NSF. Program officers from each NSF Directorate will be present to offer the latest information on specific funding opportunities and address questions from attendees.

Registration is open for in person or virtual attendance. View the draft agenda here.

In addition to the NIH and NSF-CAREER modules, AU faculty now have access to several new grantsmanship modules in the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center (GLC) on-demand grant development training portal. These modules offer faculty enrollees the unique opportunity to receive targeted training in the form of self-paced, interactive modules with step-by-step guidance and templates for prospective applicants to develop compelling proposals.

Recently added to the training portal:

Auburn faculty interested in signing up for this training should contact Christine Cline for registration information.

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.

In its commitment to help customers achieve the highest levels of security in the cloud. Amazon is seeking to fund machine learning research on the following topics in information security:

The foundation invites applications for its Large Research Grants on Education program, which will award grants of $125,000 to $500,000 over one to five years to support education research projects with the potential to contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. The foundation supports rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education; it also seeks to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.

The ACED program seeks to harness computing to accelerate scientific discovery, while driving new computing advancements. The intent is to catalyze advancements on both sides of a virtuous cycle that (a) benefit scientific disciplines through computational technologies and (b) foster novel computing technologies that will enable advances beyond the specific use cases or domains originally targeted.

The program seeks continuous collaborations between at least two groups of researchers. One group is expected to consist of researchers in computing, which, for the purposes of this solicitation are those disciplines that are supported by the Core Programs of National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. The other group of researchers are expected to represent another scientific or engineering discipline, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, are defined as those supported within existing programs of the following NSF directorates: Biological Sciences, Engineering, or Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

Track I - Emerging Ideas Proposals: This track is intended to support speculative multidisciplinary projects that explore bold new research directions. The goal of these projects should be to obtain preliminary results, refine the overall research plan based on these results, and garner insights into whether these advances generalize beyond the targeted use case or domain.

Track II - Discovery Proposals: The objective of this track is to support transformative interdisciplinary research that will significantly advance both computing and the scientific discipline(s) to be studied. Proposals should clearly identify the scientific problem(s) to be addressed; the specific computing techniques to be developed; and be supported by preliminary collaborations and/or results that demonstrate the potential of the proposed ideas.

The Young Scholars Program (YSP) supports scholarship for early-career researchers. The program funds implementation research that is policy- and practice-relevant and that examines the preparation, competency, compensation, well-being, and ongoing professional learning of the early care and education (ECE) workforce.

Three specific goals frame the Foundation's current programmatic priority to strengthen the ECE workforce:

The NIH Small Research Grant Program supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

As the first stage of this NSF Regional Innovation Engines internal competition, we are accepting mandatory Statements of Interest for information and planning purposes. Statements of Interest are to be submitted through the AU Competition Space.