Sponsored Projects - Funding Forecast
A periodic newsletter for Bucknell faculty researchers, scholars and grantseekers with information on external funding opportunities, recent grant successes, upcoming deadlines, and updates and resources from the Office of Sponsored Projects.
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News and Updates
Responsible Conduct of Research
The OSP would like to remind the community that training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is required for any undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researcher involved in and paid by a grant from the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health. RCR training, which covers topics including plagiarism and authorship, data management, mentoring, collaborative research, and conflicts of interest, is encouraged for Principal Investigators as well. This federal requirement can be satisfied through Bucknell's subscription to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) site, with modules available to all Bucknell faculty, students and staff year-round. Faculty PIs can direct their students to instructions for registering and completing online RCR via the CITI portal. For more information, see Bucknell's RCR training plan and policy.
PRIME - Experienced Faculty Grant Reviewers Available to Review Proposals
OSP is coordinating the Proposal Reviewer Initiative and Mentoring Exchange (PRIME) pilot program through which faculty with grantwriting and panel review experience provide constructive feedback and support to their campus peers who are developing proposals for external funding. OSP Executive Director Robert Gutierrez (jrg029@bucknell.edu) and OSP Faculty Fellow David Rovnyak (drovnyak@bucknell.edu) manage the pairing of mentors with PIs and co-PIs. Please contact either of them for more information, to serve as a proposal reviewer-mentor, or to be matched with a reviewer-mentor. In the fall semester, twelve faculty members from engineering, humanities, and natural science departments participated in this new pilot initiative.
Become a Grant Reviewer
One of the best ways to improve your own grantwriting and chances for success is to serve on a review panel. Federal agencies and non-profit funding organizations each have their own process for recruiting volunteer reviewers, and not all funders require prior funding experience. Learn more at the links below, which outline each agency's process, or contact the OSP with questions.
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Recent External Funding Awards(December 2020 - January 2021*)
College of Arts & Sciences
*Grant and contract awards being administered at the university, or that have been communicated to OSP and via the Sponsored Projects Approval (SPA) form.
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External Funding Opportunities and Upcoming Deadlines
Are you interested in applying for external funding to support your research, project or program at Bucknell? Here are just a few examples of opportunities, from federal, state, private and foundation sources. (For a more customized list based on your project needs, timeline and scholarship/research focus, contact OSP for a consultation or InfoGlobal SPIN database search.)
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Interdisciplinary/Institutional
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Social Sciences
2/25/21. NSF: EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research. This program supports projects that build individuals’ capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research, through Individual Investigator Development in STEM Education Research, Institutes in Research Methods, or conferences and workshops. Proposals may be from individuals with STEM disciplinary research expertise seeking to build their education research skills OR individuals with education research expertise seeking to build their STEM disciplinary knowledge.
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Natural Sciences and Mathematics
2/16/21. NSF: Formal Methods in the Field. This program brings together researchers in formal methods (principled approaches based on mathematics and logic) with researchers in other areas of computer and information science and engineering to develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies. This solicitation is limited to computer networks, distributed/operating systems, embedded systems, human centered computing, and machine learning.
2/25/21, 6/25/21, 10/25/21. NIH: Academic Research Enhancement Award (Parent R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (R15). The objectives of the AREA program are to provide support for meritorious research, to strengthen the research environment of schools that have not been major recipients of NIH support, and to expose available undergraduate and/or graduate students in such environments to meritorious research. The AREA program will enable qualified scientists to receive support for small-scale research projects. Note: This program is also available to faculty members in Engineering, Social Sciences and all other fields supported by the NIH.
3/12/21. American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund: Research Grants. ACS PRF has two grant categories for non-doctoral departments: Undergraduate New Investigator, for faculty within their first 3 years of their first academic appointment, and Undergraduate Research. Research areas include chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and related fields such as polymers and materials science.
3/12/21 (LOI). Charles E. Kaufman Foundation: New Investigator Research Grants and New Initiative Research Grants. These programs support fundamental research in biology, chemistry, physics or at the disciplinary boundaries between them. New Investigator Research Grant applicants must hold the rank of assistant professor and have received their PhD after 1/1/13, with preference for investigators who have not received a major research award. New Initative Research Grants require at least two investigators, from the same institution or different Pennsylvania institutions who reflect expertise in distinct disciplines or subdisciplines, for a new initiative which is not currently funded from sources outside their institutions.
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Humanities
2/2/21, 8/3/21. NSF: Science and Technology Studies. The program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the STEM disciplines, including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.
4/14/21. NEH: Fellowships. This program funds 6- to 12-month fellowships for humanities scholars to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous projects. Projects may be at any stage of development. This deadline is for projects starting between January 1, 2022 and September 1, 2023.
6/9/21. NHPRC: Archives Collaboratives. This program funds projects to plan and develop a working collaborative to make collections from small and under-represented archives more readily available for public discovery and use. Planning grant budgets may be up to $25,000 and implementation budgets up to $100,000; applicants must provide at least $25,000 in cost share.
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Creative and Performing Arts
2/11/21; 7/8/21. NEA: Grants for Arts Projects. This program supports projects which provide public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the United States in a variety of disciplines. Grants require a 1:1 cost share and may range from $10,000 to $100,000 but more than half of the funded grants have been for less than $25,000. This deadline provides access to the application portal; the full proposal deadline is approximately 12 days later.
2/17/21. Goodhart Artist Residency. Two or three-week residency slots in Good Hart, Michigan are available for writers or songwriter/composers during fall 2021 and winter 2022. Residency includes room and board, and a small stipend. Applications for spring/summer 2022 for visual artists will be accepted starting in mid-November 2021.
3/29/21. NEA Research Grants in the Arts and NEA Research Labs. These programs provide applicants an opportunity to engage with NEA's five-year research agenda. Research Grants fund studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts; matching/cost share grants of $10,000 to $100,000 will be awarded. Research Labs are cooperative agreements with substantial NEA involvement in transdisciplinary research grounded in the social and behavioral sciences. Areas of interests include the intersections of the arts and 1) entrepreneurship and innovation; 2) creativity, cognition, and learning; and 3) health and social/emotional well-being. Matching/cost share cooperative agreements of up to $150,000 will be awarded. This deadline provides access to the application portal; the full proposal deadline is 4/8/21.
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Engineering
2/10/21. NSF: Computer Science for All. This program focuses on computer science and computation thinking education at the preK-12 levels. It funds both research and researcher-practitioner partnerships that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools, including providing high school teachers with preparation, professional development and ongoing support to teach rigorous computer science courses; preK-8 teachers with materials and preparation to integrate CS and CT into their teaching; and schools and districts with the resources needed to define and evaluate pathways in CS and CT.
2/22/21. NSF: Ethical and Responsible Research. This program funds projects that identify factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports. Note: Bucknell may only submit one proposal to this solicitation; please contact OSP early on if you are interested in applying.
Proposals accepted anytime. NSF: Environmental Sustainability. This program promotes sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. Research efforts typically consider long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics.
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Management, Business and Commerce
2/2/21, 9/3/21. NSF: Science of Organizations. This program funds research that advances the fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate, using scientific methods and yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities.
5/4/21 (LOI). Russell Sage Foundation: Research Grants. The Foundation will accept letters of inquiry in Behavioral Economics; Decision Making & Human Behavior in Context; Future of Work; Social, Political and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to core programs that address research on the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting recession in the U.S. and/or research focused on systemic racial inequality and/or the recent mass protests in the U.S.
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Grant Programs for Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
Deadlines vary by program. NSF: Research Opportunity Awards (ROAs). ROAs typically enable PUI faculty to pursue research as part of a collaborative research team as visiting scientists at other NSF-supported institutions. An ROA is intended to increase the PUI faculty member’s research capability and effectiveness, to improve research and teaching at his or her home institution, and to enhance the NSF-funded research of the host principal investigator. Most frequently, ROA activities are summer experiences, but partial support of sabbaticals can be awarded.
3/17/21. NIH: Summer Research Education Experience Program. This program supports education activities that provide hands-on exposure to research for high school students or undergraduate students or for high school science teachers to enhance their science teaching. The proposed program must fit with the mission of the participating Institute that the application is submitted to. Proposed projects may be up to five years and budgets cannot exceed $100,000 direct costs per year.
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