NSF Funding & Career Opportunities Webinar | Serve on a Peer Review Committee for NIMH

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OSP Weekly 04/26/2023

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NSF Funding & Career Opportunities Webinar

National Science Foundation Funding and Career Opportunities for Early and Mid-Career Faculty

Liam Frink, an NSF Geoscience Directorate Program Officer, will present a webinar on NSF funding strategies and career opportunities for early and mid-career faculty on Monday, May 1, 2023, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. via Webex.

Topics covered are:

Career impacts of investing in the research enterprise;
Navigating NSF processes tips;
Funding opportunities and strategies;
Why and how to communicate with and maintain relationships with NSF Program Directors;
Overview of the essential NSF 1-page concept paper;
Tips for becoming an effective and sought-after NSF ad hoc and panelist reviewer.

This webinar is tailored for STEM, Education, Health and Policy Science early and mid-career faculty. It is co-sponsored by the office of faculty affairs and the office of research.

Frink, professor of anthropology, is currently on sabbatical from UNLV. He is a National Science Foundation IPA program director in the Geosciences Directorate, Arctic Sciences Section of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). Since 1995, he has focused on interdisciplinary community-based participatory social science and humanities work with Alaska Native communities. For NSF Frink is lead on development of the OPP Arctic Community Engagement Initiative (ACE), co-lead of the Participatory and Indigenous Led Research (PILR) Priority Area for the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC), and member of the cross-directorate Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) one of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas.

Frink has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he began his career-impacting relationship with NSF, receiving a Dissertation Improvement Grant followed by several NSF standard grants (among other external awards). He is co-creator and co-facilitator of the Get that Grant Program, a comprehensive and interactive grants training for early and mid-career faculty and graduate students.

Serve on a Peer Review Committee for NIMH

To fund the best mental health research, we need diverse and inclusive peer review committees. The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) is looking to expand the pool of peer reviewers with mental health researchers who can bring diverse perspectives to the peer review process.

Who can apply?

Successful applicants should:

Have an academic and/or professional doctorate degree.
Have at least 1 year of experience at the instructor level or higher. Post-doctoral fellows might be considered if they have at least 5 years of experience.
Demonstrate evidence of an active research program through things like publications and funded research studies.

Why should I apply?

In addition to serving the scientific community, there are many benefits to being a peer reviewer:

Gain a better understanding of how applications are evaluated
Learn what really impresses reviewers and apply that knowledge to your future applications
Get the opportunity to network with eminent mental health researcher

Learn How to Get Involved as a NIMH Peer Reviewer

ROSES-2023 New/Revised Requirements

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) revamped the open science & data management policies, SPD-41a, to align with the new federal guidance, Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.

Most proposers to Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2023 must provide an "Open Science and Data Management Plan", (formerly called the Data Management Plan) or an explanation of why one is not necessary given the nature of the work proposed. This Open Science and Data Management Plan (OSDMP) must address how publications, data, and software will be made available. The OSDMP will be placed in a 2-page section in the proposal PDF immediately following the references and citations for the Scientific/Technical/ Management (S/T/M) section of the proposal and does not count against the page limit for the S/T/M Section. Good Overview Resource - ROSES Open Science and Data Management Plan.

Some program elements also require an Inclusion Plan. If required, the default is that the inclusion plans will be up to two pages, immediately following the OSDMP.

PIs & Co-Is must have their ORCID in their NSPIRES profile to be eligible to receive funding.

Program elements (there are a few) that do not require the above info will explicitly say they do not within that program element.

ROSES is an omnibus solicitation with many individual program elements, each with its own due date(s) and topic(s). From the NSPIRES website , you can view the list of opportunities in Table 2 (organized by due date) or Table 3 (organized by research) including hyperlinks to element descriptions in the Appendices. You can also view the list of open program elements here. Together, these program elements cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Visit the SARA ROSES blog for updates, clarifications and amendments. Here are a few of the many ROSES opportunities that are open and forthcoming:

Award Amount: Maximum of $300k/year for 2 years

Information Site: Check out the Research Initiation Awards website for FAQs

Information Session: May 24 1:00-2:30 PM EST

Althea Sheets, Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Development Manager, Office of Sponsored Programs, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880

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