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January 2025
This issue includes:
- The NSF Mid-Career Advancement Program
- NSF 2025 Research Infrastructure Guide
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiatives (AFRI) Foundational & Applied Science Program 2025
- Know the Type of Project You’re Proposing (i.e. ensuring your project is aligned with a funding opportunity)
- Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
December 2024
This issue includes:
- Does Your Humanities Proposal Have Inside and Outside Appeal (i.e. to both scholars and a well-informed general public)?
- AI Funding and the National Academies Report: Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work
- NSF Funding for AI Education, Training and Broadening Participation
- NIH’s New Science of Science Scholars Program Pilot
- In Proposals, Less is Often More (i.e. what to leave out)
- December 2024 Select List of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
November 2024
This issue includes:
- The Dos and Don’ts of Writing the Statement of Purpose for a Humanities/Social Sciences Funding Application
- Analyzing NSF CAREER Reviews and Planning Your Revisions
- NIH Replication to Enhance Research Impact Initiative
- The Role of Reproducibility and Replicability in NSF Research Funding
- Importance of Reproducibility and Replicability in STEM Education Funding
- Connect Funding Opportunities to Societal Challenges
- Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
October 2024
This issue includes:
- Redesigned NIH Grants and Funding Website & Writing Tips
- FY2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science
- A Summary of NSF Funding for the Bioeconomy
- NSF BioFoundries & Related Programs
- What is Use-Inspired Science?
- Writing as if Readers Matter by Cassuto Leonard
- Humanities, Historical Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities/News
September 2024
This issue includes:
- Overview of Funding by Department of Energy
- NSF TIP Directorate’s New Roadmap
- Avoid the Generic Introduction
- Narrative Silos Are Like Weeds
- Developing Applications to EPA Under New Guidelines
- NSF-USDA-NIFA Programmatic Funding Alignments
- September 2024 Selected Humanities, Historical Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
View September 2024 Newsletter
August 2024
This issue includes:
- Writing for NIH’s New Review Criteria
- Understanding the Role of Your PO
- Supplemental Funding Requests to NSF
- You’ve Submitted Your CAREER Proposal: What Now?
- Special Considerations When You’re Proposing to Address a Well-Known Challenge
- Forecasted Funding & Notice of Intent Opportunities
- Humanities, Historical Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
July 2024
This issue includes:
- Last-Minute NSF CAREER Proposal Checklist 2024
- NEH Humanities Connections Projects: A Funding Opportunity for Curricular Innovation at Two- and Four-Year Projects
- Funding Strategies: National Climate Resilience Framework by Federal Agency
- An Overview of ED’s FIPSE Program
- Preview of FY 2025 House Research Spending Bill
- Editing the Proposal Introduction: the What, Why, How, and So-What of a Preliminary Review
- July 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
June 2024
This issue includes:
- New Faculty Guide to Finding NSF Funding
- Win Your Grant on Page 1
- To Revise, Re-Write, or Begin Anew?
- Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Funding Profile: Homeland Security Office of University Programs in Sci. & Tech.
- Heads up! NSF’s New Graduate Student Mentoring Plan Requirement
- Unsolicited Proposals to Federal Agencies
May 2024
This issue includes:
- Tips for Winning an NEH Individual Fellowship
- You Got Funding! Now Think About Supplements
- CHIPS and Science Act in FY2025 Budget Requests
- NIH Common Fund 2025 Budget Request
- Understanding Agency-Required Diversity Plans (NIH PEDP and DOE PIER)
- EPAs FY 2025 Research Budget Priorities
- Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
April 2024
This issue includes:
- What Is the Intellectual Significance of Your Proposed Humanities Project?
- Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Funding Sources (NEH program)
- NSF Innovative Use of Scientific Collections
- FY2025 NSF Budget: Exploring New Funding Directions
- Figuring Out What You Want to Do for Your NSF CAREER Education Component
- Summary of Changes: NIFA FY 2025 Budget Request
- Tracking Allocations in Research Agency Budgets
- April 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
March 2024
This issue includes:
- Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Summary of Changes to the PAPPG NSF 24-1
- Division of Environmental Biology Virtual Office Hour
- NSF Ideas Labs: How They Work and Why They Are a Great Opportunity for Faculty
- Artificial Intelligence in Water Conservation
- Cultivating Grantsmanship Among Humanities and Social Science Graduate Students
- Strategic Uses of the Funding Solicitation
February 2024
This issue includes:
- Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Incremental Research is the “Kiss of Death” at NSF
- Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks
- Why Faculty Should Attend Funder Conferences and Workshops
- What Does a Successful NSF Proposal Look Like?
- Avoiding A Common Reviewer Complaint: Descriptive Research
January 2024
This issue includes:
- A Suggested Timeline for Producing Your NSF CAREER Proposal
- The Future of STEM Education at NSF
- Humanities Perspectives on AI: NEH Emerging Funding Opportunities and Private Opportunities
- Writing a Proposal’s Stakeholder Engagement Section
- If You Name It, Explain It
- Don’t Sell the Funding Solicitation Short
- Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- FY24 Navy STEM and Workforce Program
December 2023
The issue includes:
- NIH on Research Integrity
- Update: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- Overview of NSF GEO’s Funding Opportunities to Support the “Build a Resilient Planet” Initiative
- Technology for Plagiarism Detection at NSF
- The Communications Component of the Management Plan
- List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
November 2023
This issue includes:
- A New NEH Initiative: "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence"
- DOE/SC Biological and Environmental Research
- The Value of Reading Abstracts of Funded Projects
- Pursing Funding From Private Foundations
- National Academies Report on AI
- Developing a Strategic Plan for Funding Your Research
- Developing You Research Agenda
- Developing Your Education Agenda
- Select List of Humanities, Humanistic Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
October 2023
This issue includes:
- Overview: Defense Sciences Office 2024 BAA
- Checking in With ARPA-H
- NSF’s Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
- Editing the Proposal Introduction: What, Why, & How
- Don’t Let Your Proposal Wear a Disguise on Halloween
- How a Good Website Can Help Faculty Win Grants
- October 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
September 2023
This issue includes:
- Proposal Writing in the Humanities
- Significance of Your Proposed Humanities Project?
- What Is Your Great Idea and Why Is It Important?
- Humanities, Humanistic Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Institute for Museum and Library Services Funding Opportunities
- Biotechnology at USDA/NIFA in FY2024 Budget
- Overview: Bioenergy Technologies Office at DOE
- Understanding NSF For NIH PIs
- Multi-Agency R&D Priorities for the FY 2025 budget
View September 2023 Newsletter
August 2023
This issue includes:
- August 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities, News
- Selected List of Mid-career Funding Opportunities in Humanities and HRSS
- Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II
- National Institute of Justice: What it is, does, and funds
- You’ve Submitted Your CAREER Proposal: What Now?
- Using ChatGPT When Writing Proposals: What It Can and Can’t Do
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Writing the 1.5-Page Practice Proposal
- It’s Not Easy to Disinvite a Team Member
July 2023
This issue includes:
- July 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- An Overview: U.S Department of Justice Grants
- Engineering Research Initiation: What Is It, For Who?
- NSF Dear Colleague Letters & Funding Mechanisms
- The Power of Faculty Writing Groups for Reviewing Proposals and Overall Writing Improvement
- Strategies for Proposal Resubmissions
- Research Grant Writing Web Resources
June 2023
This issue includes:
- Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Applying for an NEH Humanities Initiative at Your College or University
- What is Use-Inspired Science and Why Do You Need to Know That?
- Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification
- The Chips & Science Act: What is it Funding?
- NSF BioFoundries & Related Programs
- Planning to Write as a Team
- Avoiding A Common Reviewer Complaint: Descriptive Research
- Do You Know Where Your Research Fits in Your Discipline’s State of the Art?
May 2023
This issue includes:
- May 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Understanding Forensic Sciences Funding
- Consider Joining the NSF Rotator Program
- Tips for Pursuing Funding from Industry
- Make Your Case for Value-Added Benefits
April 2023
This issue includes:
- List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
- Editing the Research Narrative for Importance
- U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing: The White House Vision for a Whole-of-Government Approach
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) and Funding Opportunities
- Fully Respond to the ARPA-(H)eilmeier Questions
- How a Good Website Can Help Faculty Win Grants
- Mission Agency Common Denominators
March 2023
This issue includes:
- NSF Office Hours and the PRoSPCT Tool
- Grants: Native American Graves Repatriation Act
- Budget of the US Government FY23/Agency Allocations
- Basic Research: The Trial-and-Error Trap
- How the Department of Energy Reviews Your Proposal .
- How Your Research Fits in Your Discipline’s State of the Art
- Select List of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Opportunities & News
February 2023
This issue includes:
- Who is Winning Humanities Funding and Why?
- NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Webinar Report
- Changes to AFRI Foundational Program 2023
- Cultivating Grantsmanship among Graduate Students
- NIH Steps: Unsolicited, Investigator-Initiated Research
- Research Grant Writing Web Resources
- Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
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