Congratulations to those who received awards in August! So far in FY2025, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted proposals in the amount of $26,980,264 and have received $9,522,636 in awards.
A special congratulations also to Assistant Professor Dr. Loganathan who received notice of an R16 Award under NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the proposal titled “Impact of Exercise Adaptations on the Aging Stem Cell.” Please join us in congratulating Dr. Loganathan on this incredible achievement.
WSU Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty, please note, applications for URCA and MURPA funding are due October 4, 2024.
If you have questions about the content of this newsletter, please contact research@wichita.edu.
AWARDS
CO-EVOLUTION AND COUPLING IN ENZYME FUNCTION CURE
PI/Department: Moriah Beck, Chemistry
Co-PI/Department: James Bann, Chemistry
Sponsor: Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $21,000
UPWARD BOUND MATH SCIENCE CENTER
PI/Department: Lorene Berg, ED - Upward Bound Math & Science
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $384,775
KANSAS IDEA NETWORK OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE 5: DRPP MENTOR-INBRE DRPP MENTORING AWARD
PI/Department: George Bousfield, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,750
THE AGING PITUITARY/GONADAL AXIS
PI/Department: George Bousfield, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $2,137,513
FUTURE WATER LEADERS, WATER WORKFORCE R2 (AREA #2)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $414,250
KEEN PARTNER SUPPORT PACKAGE (YEAR 3)
PI/Department: Gary Brooking, Engineering Technology
Sponsor: Kern Family Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $50,000
EMPLOYEE OPINION SURVEY
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Mulvane
Amount: $10,395
SEDGWICK COUNTY CONSULTATION AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Delores Craig-Moreland, Digital Transformation Initiatives
Co-PI/Department: Rhonda Lewis, Psychology
Sponsor: Sedgwick County
Amount: $53,000
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY CENTERS PROGRAM (YEAR 4)
PI/Department: Travis Feeney, ED - Educational Opportunity Centers
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $283,661
THE ALLIANCE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PWD) AND INTERSECTIONALITY FOR INCLUSION, NETWORKING, AND TRANSITION OPPORTUNITIES IN STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM)
PI/Department: Nils Hakansson, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: Curators of Univ of MO on behalf of Univ of Missouri - KC / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $18,000
KANSAS IDEA NETWORK OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE 5: CC+DSC+SS+ST
PI/Department: William Hendry, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $180,111
UPWARD BOUND WICHITA PREP (YEAR 3)
PI/Department: Rhonda Hicks, ED - Upward Bound/Wichita Prep
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $503,538
WICHITA STATE YOUTH LITERACY
PI/Department: Rhonda Hicks, ED - Upward Bound/Wichita Prep
Sponsor: Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Amount: $4,000
FIELD ASSESSMENT OF PASSIVE ARM SUPPORT EXOSKELETONS ON MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH IN OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION TASKS
PI/Department: Michael Jorgensen, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng
Co-PI/Department: Heidi VanRavenhorst-Bell, Dept of Human Performance
Sponsor: National Safety Council
Amount: $48,467
KANSAS IDEA NETWORK OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH EXCELLENCE 5: DRPP
PI/Department: Rajprasad Loganathan, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $104,782
KBOR NURSING INITIATIVE GRANT AY 25
PI/Department: Debra Pile, School of Nursing
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $183,328
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM (GRFP)
PI/Department: Coleen Pugh, Graduate School
Award Winner/Department: Reilly Jensen, Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Mentor/Department: Kim Cluff, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $96,333
PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE AND VACCINE EQUITY GRANTS
PI/Department: Rachel Showstack, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $45,000
STRUCTURALLY SPECIFIC ISOTOPIC SHIFTS ACROSS ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS
PI/Department: Alexandre Shvartsburg, Chemistry
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $24,120
TRIO DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES
PI/Department: Vanessa Souriya-Mnirajd, ED - Disability Services Student Sup
Sponsor: Department of Education - US
Amount: $306,514
ENHANCED RESILIENCE OF DRINKING WATER ACCESSIBILITY IN KS USING PROBABILISTIC MACHINE LEARNING
PI/Department: Andrew Swindle, Geology
Sponsor: Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research, Inc. / Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $50,000
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FACILITATOR
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Natl Assoc County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $27,638
BOARD GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Family Promise of Greater Wichita
Amount: $7,136
COMMUNITY INVESTING RETREAT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Western Kansas Community Foundation
Amount: $2,749
CONSUMER RUN ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services
Amount: $236,595
EDUCATION RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMER OUTREACH (YEAR 4)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services
Amount: $667,926
EVALUATION SERVICES FOR KANSAS EARLY CHILDHOOD BLOCK GRANT 2024-2027
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund
Amount: $1,457,340
FORENSIC PEER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse - Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $100,136
K-12 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROJECT - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT GRANT (ONE HEALTH) AMENDMENT 2
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $5,000
KANSAS MASS CASUALTY SHOOTING CRISIS RESPONSE PLAN FACILITATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $84,002
LIVE WELL SALINE COUNTY COALITION SUPPORT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Tammy Walker Cancer Center
Amount: $2,506
OD2A MAT LEARNING SESSIONS- STRATEGY 6
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Disease Control
Amount: $15,984
OUTREACH AND LOGISTICS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Amount: $9,890
PHOTOGRAPHY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Amount: $2,000
SECOND AMENDMENT TO TRANSFORMATION TRANSFER INITIATIVE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services
Amount: $75,000
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COALITION AND TRANSFORMATION TRANSFER INITIATIVE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: National Associate of State Mental Health Program Directors / Substance Abuse - Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $13,162
TRAUMA-INFORMED SYSTEMS OF CARE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Sedgwick County Division of FinanceAmount: $3,000
TRI-REGIONAL BOARD RETREAT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Christian Church in Kansas Disciples of Christ
Amount: $3,282
A HIGH PERFORMANCE ZEISS LENS FOR IMPROVED FLUORESCENT CELL IMAGING
PI/Department: Li Yao, Biological Sciences
Sponsor: Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $7,772
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $49,860,971, OF WHICH THE ENTIRE AMOUNT BELONGS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AVIATION RESEARCH (NIAR).
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
Please reach out early and as soon as you have found a potential opportunity that you wish to apply for. Early notifications allow the Office of Research to minimize the risk of missing agency deadlines, to fix potential errors, to ensure compliance with WSU policies and procedures, and to ensure the best service from our office. For access to WSU’s Pivot account to search for funding opportunities, please sign up and affiliate with Wichita State University using your WSU email address. To request assistance with a customized search please contact funding@wichita.edu. Again, if any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. Visit Pre-Award Services to find out more about applying for external funding.
Funding Agency: Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)
Title: Prevention Request for Proposals and Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Program
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 30, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due December 9, 2024
Purpose: “For the Prevention RFP, the ADDF seeks to support studies of cognitive symptoms due to health conditions, comparative effectiveness research, and epidemiological studies that probe whether the use or choice of drugs alters the risk for dementia or cognitive decline. For the Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Program, the aim is to further develop and validate established biomarkers for which there is a clear clinical need in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. This RFP prioritizes biomarkers with a defined context of use, a clear advantage over other relevant biomarkers, and a path to commercialization and/or clinical use.”
Amount: Up to $5,000,000 for clinical trials based on stage and scope of research for the Prevention RFP and up to $600,000 for the Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Program
Funding Agency: Kansas Tourism
Title: Attraction Development Grant Program
Application Deadline: October 1, 2024
Purpose: “The Attraction Development Grant is designed to provide strategic economic assistance to public, private entities, and not-for profit groups that are developing new, or enhancing existing tourism attractions, in the state that will create economic impact through job creation, capital investment, revenue, and increased visitation. We are looking for projects that will bring new visitors to Kansas. All projects should have an accountable tie to the tourism industry.”
Amount: Up to $200,000; Note, Cost Share/Match is required.
REMINDER: Funding Agency: VentureWell
Title: E-Team Program
Application Deadline: October 2, 2024
Purpose: “The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.”
Amount: $5,000-$25,000
REMINDER LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit two applications for Track 1, as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by October 4, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is October 18, 2024. If selected, Full Applications due January 29, 2025.
Purpose: “Track 1 will support one Coordination Hub, to coordinate support for rising seniors from emerging research institutions (ERIs) or historically excluded and underserved groups as part of a national cohort to participate in structured professional development opportunities. FORECAST seeks to facilitate the transition from status quo graduate career preparation to a student-centered model with a particular emphasis on building entrepreneurial and innovation capacity at ERIs.”
Amount: Up to $7,500,000
Funding Agency: American Cancer Society
Title: Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2024
Purpose: “The CSDG supports full-time faculty members in becoming independent investigators as clinician scientists. This grant is designed for people trained primarily as clinicians who want to maintain clinical practice and conduct cancer research.”
Amount: $135,000 a year for direct costs
LIMITED Brain Research Foundation
Title: 2025 Seed Grant Program
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit one nomination, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by October 8, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is October 22, 2024. If selected, Letters of Intent will be due November 19, 2024.
Purpose: “The purpose of our program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. The objective of the BRF Seed Grant Program is to support new and innovative projects, especially those of junior faculty, who are working in new research directions. BRF Seed Grant awards are not intended to supplement existing grants.”
Amount: $80,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Application Deadlines: October 16, 2024 or February 16, 2025
Purpose: “This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for research projects that test promising digital healthcare interventions used at the point of care and aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services delivery. This NOFO will use the Phased Innovation Award (R21/R33) mechanism to provide up to 2 years of R21 support for initial developmental activities, and up to 3 years of R33 support for expanded activities.”
Amount: $280,000 for R21 Phase, $720,000 for R33 Phase
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Application Deadline: October 18, 2024
Purpose: “The aims of the program are as follows: To provide support for career development and to advance the leadership skills of medical and surgical specialists conducting clinically relevant basic, translational or clinical, and Patient-Oriented-Research in disciplines relevant to aging and geriatrics, and to deepen the commitment of research institutions to promote transformative academic research and leadership in aging and geriatric medicine by linking mentors to emerging scientists with a commitment to future leadership in aging research and policy. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is pursuing this initiative to recruit early-stage investigators who have successfully competed for a research grant and begun to establish research programs and who, through this award, will be ready to assume leadership roles in their field of expertise and be poised to change theory, practice, and health outcomes related to the health of older individuals. Unlike other mentored K awards, candidates for this award must have received competitively awarded research support as a Program Director/Primary Investigator (PD/PI) at the faculty level or have otherwise leveraged faculty-level research support to develop an independent line of research. They must show evidence of leadership in the clinical or research domain.”
Amount: Award budgets are composed of salary and other program-related expenses. Award budgets are limited to $225,000 in direct costs in any year.
Funding Agency: NIHCM Foundation
Title: Journalism Grants
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry due October 25, 2024
Purpose: “Grants provide funding for: Health reporting by national or local outlets, non-profit media organizations, and freelancers, Education for journalists, Visual storytelling, and Documentary film public engagement campaigns.”
Amount: Up to $500,000 total will be awarded; see website for previously funded projects
Funding Agency: U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Title: Build to Scale (B2S)
Application Deadline: October 28, 2024
Purpose: “The Build to Scale program supports organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems to support entrepreneurs as they build and scale technology-driven businesses—and the employees in the new, good jobs they create—to make and deliver new technology products and services.”
Amount: Up to $5,000,000; Note, Cost Share/Match is required.
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation (RSF)
Title: Core Research Grants and Special Initiatives
Application Deadline: Letters of Inquiry (LOI) accepted until October 29, 2024
Purpose: “RSF will accept LOIs under all of its core programs and special initiatives: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context; Future of Work; Immigration and Immigrant Integration; Promoting Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility among Racially, Ethnically, and Economically Diverse Groups after the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities; Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. It will also accept LOIs relevant to its core programs that address the effects of social movements, such as drives for unionization and mass social protests, and the effects of racial/ethnic/gender bias and discrimination on a range of outcomes related to social and living conditions in the U.S.”
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
REMINDER LIMITED Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement-Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program
Application Deadlines: Limited Because WSU may only submit one application as the lead applicant, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by October 29, 2024 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is November 19, 2024. Letters of Intent to the funder are due December 17, 2024 with Full Applications due January 28, 2025.
Purpose: “Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education, and industry that are designed to affect sustainable improvements in a jurisdiction's research infrastructure, Research and Development (R&D) capacity, and hence, its R&D competitiveness. Projects are investigator-driven and must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges, which neither party could address as well or rapidly independently. RII Track-2 FEC proposals must be aligned with the following focus area: "advancing climate change research and resilience capacity to expand opportunities for disproportionately affected communities.”
Amount: Up to $4,000,000
Funding Agency: HALO (PepsiCo)
Title: Lightweighting of PET Bottles
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Purpose: “We are looking for cost-effective and scalable technology to enhance the structural stability and extend the shelf life of carbonated soft drinks in lightweight PET bottles, while maintaining recyclability. The solution should increase the top-load capacity of bottles and maximize the volume a bottle can hold, while minimizing dents during production and RQL (rejectable quality limits) failures. We need solutions for all bottle sizes (up to two liters), with a primary focus on 20 oz / 500 ml bottles.”
Amount: $25,000-$100,000
Funding Agency: NCPDP Foundation
Title: Request for Grants
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Purpose: “The NCPDP Foundation is requesting grant proposals for the fall 2024 funding cycle. Proposals must be submitted by October 31, 2024. The Foundation seeks to fund projects that demonstrate the value of existing or new NCPDP standards in supporting the role and value of the pharmacist, patient access to care, patient safety, and coordination of care and innovation.”
Amount: Up to $150,000
Funding Agency: Wild Animal Initiative
Title: Seed Grants
Application Deadline: November 1, 2024
Purpose: “Wild Animal Initiative’s Seed Grants program provides small amounts of funding to help researchers develop new ideas or build wild animal welfare questions into existing projects. Projects must connect wild animal welfare to at least one of the following priority topics: welfare indicator validation, interspecific interactions, population dynamics, cause-specific mortality, landscape ecology, cascade effects, welfare interventions, juvenile welfare, invertebrate welfare, and fish welfare.”
Amount: Up to $10,000
Funding Agency: School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Title: Resident Scholar Fellowships
Application Deadline: November 4, 2024
Purpose: “Resident scholar fellowships are awarded annually by SAR to up to six scholars who have completed their research and who need time to prepare manuscripts or dissertations on topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history and sociology. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply.” Fellowships include, but are not limited to, the Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latino Studies and the Wenner-Gren Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences.
Amount: Fellowships up to $50,000
Funding Agency: VIA Art Fund
Title: Artistic Production Grant: Spring 2025 Award Cycle
Application Deadlines: Letters of Inquiry due November 4, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due December 9, 2024
Purpose: “Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions. Often exhibited beyond museum walls in public space, these projects feature high levels of thought leadership, artistic production, and public engagement.”
Amount: $25,000-$100,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE)
Title: FY24 Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Concept Papers due November 7, 2024; If invited, Full Applications due January 16, 2024
Purpose: “…supports higher risk bioenergy technologies that are ready to scale, ultimately demonstrating feedstock-conversion variations, or production pathways, to support commercialization and meet the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge goal of 35 billion gallons per year of SAF production by 2050 and the Clean Fuels and Products Shot goal of 50% projected demand for maritime, rail, off-road, and renewable carbon-based chemicals by 2050.”
Amount: $2,000,000-$3,000,000
LIMITED Funding Agency: U.S. Forest Service: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Title: Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 West
Application Deadline: Limited Because entities from the State of Kansas may only submit five applications, and must have the cooperation of the Kansas Forest Service, it is recommended that you reach out well in advance of the Full Application deadline of November 15, 2025.
Purpose: “The State, Private, & Tribal Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration competitive process is ‘intended to support high impact projects that promote collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes, leverage public and private resources, and advance priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or other restoration strategy.’”
Amount: $25,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Justice (NIJ)
Application Deadline: November 19, 2024
Purpose: “NIJ seeks proposals to examine programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP) in Fiscal Years (FY) 2022-2024. The BJA Byrne SCIP program provides funding for the implementation and/or creation of specific program areas: (1) extreme risk protection order programs, (2) courts response to people in crisis, (3) community-based services for people in crisis, and (4) funding for law enforcement crisis intervention programs or initiatives.”
Amount: $600,000 for Scan of Practices; $1,500,000 for Evaluability Assessments
Funding Agency: Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF)
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: Pre-Proposals due December 1, 2024
Purpose: “The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funding reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.”
Amount: Previously awarded grants have ranged from $15,000 to over $500,000 with the average grant amount in recent years being $160,000.
Funding Agency: Institute for Citizens & Scholars
Title: Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) Award
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
Purpose: “MEFL are building inclusive campus communities through their teaching, scholarship, and service. Awardees are early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society. In addition to bringing a diversity of perspectives to their fields, MEFL awardees are building support systems, networks, and affinity groups for their students and peers.”
Amount: $20,000 stipend
Funding Agency: Brady Education Foundation
Title: Proposals for Program Evaluations (Research Project and Existing Program Evaluation)
Application Deadlines: December 1, 2024 for Stage 1 Proposals; If invited, Stage 2 Proposals due four months later.
Purpose: “…proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.”
Amount: Varies; see website for examples of previously funded projects.
Funding Agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Title: Conference and Workshop Grants
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
Purpose: “This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research. Conferences that we support are public events directed at large audiences of anthropologists. We prioritize scholarly gatherings that bring together members of large, international anthropological organizations. Workshops that we support are closed meetings focused on pressing topics in anthropology.”
Amount: $20,000
Funding Agency: Department of Commerce (DOC)
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “Through this funding announcement, WPO Social Science Program (SSP) solicits SBES research proposals that advance the identified priorities to benefit the overall weather community. The WPO SSP seeks to involve SBES researchers and social science-led, interdisciplinary teams to integrate SBES into meteorological research, forecasting, information displays, communication of uncertainty, and understanding of individual and community vulnerabilities to weather. These disciplines include (but are not limited to) anthropology, communication, economics, geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. Specifically, this funding call supports interdisciplinary work, applied research, and more broadly, social science research that will advance theoretical findings into applications for the operational forecast community.”
Amount: $250,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF): National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “…to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the NOFO is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. A distinguishing feature of an appropriate study is the need for rapid review and funding, substantially shorter than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle, for the research question to be addressed and swiftly implemented.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the 2-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “The purpose of this research announcement is to support investigator-initiated research to rigorously evaluate policies and programs for the primary prevention of ACEs. In alignment with NCIPC’s ACEs Research Priorities, projects are expected to evaluate prevention approaches at the community- or societal-level that address social and health inequities that place some populations at greater risk for ACEs. Research conducted with these funds will rigorously evaluate existing primary prevention approaches (i.e., policies or programs that are already developed and implemented or ready for implementation in the community or population of interest) that have not yet undergone rigorous evaluation or are not currently undergoing a rigorous outcome evaluation.”
Amount: $450,000
Funding Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Title: Effectiveness Research to Prevent Polysubstance-Impaired Driving
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “The CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is soliciting investigator-initiated research to rigorously evaluate and examine effectiveness of strategies, programs, or policies (collectively referred to as “strategies”) for preventing polysubstance-impaired driving and associated crashes, nonfatal injuries, or deaths. Research may include, but is not limited to, evaluation of the impact of any of the following on preventing polysubstance-impaired driving and related outcomes: 1) Evidence-based alcohol-impaired driving strategies that may also prevent polysubstance-impaired driving. Examples include, but are not limited to, screening and brief intervention and alternative transportation or transit programs. 2) Strategies that prevent excessive alcohol use, harmful substance use, or substance use disorders that have the capacity to also prevent polysubstance-impaired driving. Examples include, but are not limited to, taxation or pricing policies for alcohol and cannabis, social norming campaigns, and multi-component coalition-based strategies (e.g., Drug Free Communities Programs or similar efforts). This NOFO encourages examination of strategy effects on polysubstance-impaired driving and associated injuries and deaths among the overall population and disproportionately affected populations.”
Amount: $350,000 per year
Funding Agency: Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research
Title: Pilot Study Awards
Application Deadline: December 2, 2024
Purpose: “These are two-year awards of $75,000 each, supporting investigator-initiated projects in all areas of ovarian cancer research. Projects designed to analyze data from already funded clinical trials are also considered. The funds are for direct costs only, excluding institutional overhead and indirect costs. Investigators at the assistant, associate, or full professor level (or equivalent) are eligible to apply, subject to guidelines of the applicant’s home institution.”
Amount: $75,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent due December 5, 2024; Full Applications due January 16, 2025
Purpose: “The goal of MFS-SPEED is to support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery and ultimate manufacturing of sustainable polymers using state-of-the-art data science, and to enhance development of a cross-disciplinary workforce skilled in this area…the research community is encouraged to address the discovery and elaboration of new sustainable polymers or sustainable pathways to existing polymers by the creation and use of a data-centric environment...” Note, a webinar about this opportunity will be held by NSF on October 18, 2024.
Amount: $2,000,000
Funding Agency: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Title: New Treatments or Cures for Cancer
Application Deadline: December 15, 2024
Purpose: “The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period that will allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers.”
Amount: By design, there are no limits set on the grant amount that can be requested.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2)
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent due December 16, 2024 with Full Applications due January 16, 2025
Purpose: “R2I2 will support community-engaged team science to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research. Each R2I2 project will address specific regional climate challenges and will develop and demonstrate solutions to those challenges that can be effectively applied in real-world settings.”
Amount: $500,000 for Phase 1; $3,000,000 per year for Phase 2
Funding Agency: Water Quality Research Foundation
Title: Request for Concept Papers
Application Deadline: December 20, 2024
Purpose: “We invite researchers to submit concept papers on the efficacy of point-of-use (POU) and point-of-entry (POE) drinking water treatment technologies in real-world settings. Concepts must align with one or more of the following themes: Identifying Treatment Approaches for Emerging Contaminants; Removing Multiple Classes of Contaminants; or Integration of POU/POE Systems into a ‘One Water’ Approach.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Purpose: “The AISL Program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. This program seeks proposals that center engagement, broadening participation, and belonging, and further the well-being of individuals and communities who have been and continue to be excluded, under-served, or underrepresented in STEM along several dimensions. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research; science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media.”
Amount: $100,000-$3,500,000 depending on type of project
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: January 8, 2025 or May 5, 2025
Purpose: “This Funding Opportunity Announcement solicits R01 grant applications that propose independent research projects that are within the scientific mission areas of the participating NIH Institutes or Centers. This program is intended to support New Investigators and At-Risk Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the health-related sciences.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
REMINDER: Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Title: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Application Deadline: January 8, 2025
Purpose: “These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources. The award amount provided by ORAU is $5,000. The applicant’s institution is required to match the award with at least an additional $5,000. This is a one-year grant (June 1 to May 31). Eligibility for the Powe Awards is open to full-time assistant professors at ORAU member institutions within two years of their tenure track appointment at the time of application.”
Amount: $5,000-$10,000; Note, Cost Share/Match is required.
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
Application Deadline: January 9, 2025
Purpose: “The DHAG program supports work that is innovative, experimental, and contributes to the critical infrastructure that underpins scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities.”
Amount: $75,000-$350,000
Funding Agency: Leakey Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: January 10, 2025
Purpose: “The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research into human origins, including paleoanthropology, genetics, primate behavior and the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Other areas of study are generally not considered.”
Amount: Up to $30,000 for post-PhD researchers
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Application Deadlines: January 21, 2025 and August 18, 2025
Purpose: “DRMS supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues and have strong broader impacts. DRMS funds disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIGs) and conferences in the following areas: judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception and communication; societal and public-policy decision making; management science and organizational design.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
Application Deadline: January 23, 2025
Purpose: “The ER2 program supports projects that focus on what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The ER2 program promotes the development, improvement, and dissemination of responsible and ethical research practices and aims to build on organizational cultures that value and reward such practices. Proposers to the ER2 program may examine responsible and ethical research practices across one or more career stages. This can include, for example, the research practices of students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, or practitioners. ER2 projects could seek to improve responsible and ethical research practices in teams, organizations, or communities, or between researchers and the public. ER2 projects may include the development of interventions that promote responsible and ethical research practices, including in multidisciplinary, inter-organizational, cross-sector, translational, or international contexts. An ER2 project can also identify challenges that undermine or erode responsible and ethical research practices in STEM fields and evaluate measures to prevent or mitigate such challenges. A comprehensive approach to responsible and ethical research not only influences individual behavior, but it also contributes to an inclusive, equitable, and respectful research culture. Thus, proposers could examine organizational or other factors that positively influence responsible and ethical research practices in STEM fields.”
Amount: $50,000-$700,000 depending on type of project
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: Large Research Projects for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (R01)
Application Deadline: February 5, 2025
Purpose: “AHRQ invites grant applications for funding to conduct Large Research Projects that propose to advance the base of knowledge for detection, prevention, and reduction of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs). This FOA describes the broad areas of HAI research including determination of the clinical efficacy and effectiveness of preventive interventions, including unintended adverse consequences and characterization and assessment of relevant epidemiological aspects of HAIs, including but not limited to patient risk factors, clinical presentation, and sources of antibiotic-resistant organisms involved in the development of HAIs.”
Amount: Up to $500,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health
Application Deadline: February 26, 2025
Purpose: “This Notice of Funding Opportunity solicits grant applications for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and/or public health policy value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers and historians of the health sciences.”
Amount: Up to $75,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD): Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until April 4, 2025
Purpose: “ONR seeks a broad range of applications for augmenting existing and/or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain and/or cultivate a diverse, world-class STEM workforce to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ technological superiority. The goal of proposed efforts must provide solutions that establish, build and/or maintain STEM educational pathways and workforce opportunities for diverse U.S. citizens directly relevant to ONR science and technology areas.”
Amount: The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the technology area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Racial Equity in STEM Education (EHR Racial Equity)
Application Deadline: October 14, 2025
Purpose: “Collectively, proposals funded by this solicitation will: (1) substantively contribute to institutionalizing effective research-based practices, policies, and outcomes in STEM environments for those who experience inequities caused by systemic racism and the broader community; (2) advance scholarship and promote racial equity in STEM in ways that expand the array of epistemologies, perspectives, ideas, theoretical and methodological approaches that NSF funds; and (3) further diversify project leadership (PIs and co-PIs) and institutions funded by NSF.”
Amount: Up to $5,000,000
Funding Agency: Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
Title: FY25 Innovation Partnerships Program
Application Deadline: Open until two awards per fiscal year is reached; funds are depleted
Purpose: “This program is structured to build stronger relationships between university members and ORAU collaborators by focusing on research and education topics that align well with ORAU’s expertise and current priorities. FY 2025 grant focus areas include: Improving Our Behavioral Health, the Post-Pandemic World, Implementing Innovative Technologies and Our Changing Planet.”
Amount: $4,000
Funding Agency: Thoma Foundation
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation offers predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships annually in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the study of the art of the Spanish Americas. The Marilynn Thoma Fellowship is the only unrestricted research funding in the United States devoted exclusively to the field of art of the Spanish Americas. Scholars may come from any discipline, but all projects must relate to the study of art and art history.” Note additional eligibility criteria are listed in the application guidelines.
Amount: Up to $50,000 for Predoctoral; $65,000 Postdoctoral; $25,000 Travel
Funding Agency: PenFed Foundation: Military Heroes Program
Title: High Impact Community Grant
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “Through our Military Heroes Program, the PenFed Foundation provides high impact grants that celebrate the leadership and selfless service of military members and support the transition from service to civilian life.”
Amount: Not specified
Funding Agency: Cisco
Title: Research Gifts
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “Cisco Research engages with academia to share knowledge and experience from the ground, and we collaborate with research labs across many domains to pave the way for our future innovations. We are funding both sponsored research agreements and research gifts. With sponsored research agreements, we work directly with universities to come to an agreement on a contracted research project that aligns with our areas of interest. For research gifts, universities and non-profits are eligible to apply to one of our open Request for Proposals for gift funding.”
Amount: The funding range for WSU’s geographical area is $50,000-$100,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic.
Advanced Manufacturing – proposals accepted anytime
Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-15, 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 15, 2024
Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF) – proposals accepted anytime
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology – proposals accepted anytime
Biosensing – proposals accepted anytime
Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep & Oct - varies based on discipline
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards –Jan 15 & Aug 15 annually
Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (EHR: Core) – Oct 3, 2024
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP) – proposals accepted anytime
Division of Materials Research: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
– proposals accepted anytime
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs (MCB) - proposals accepted anytime
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – Nov 20, 2024
Energy, Power, Control, and Networks – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Environmental Engineering – proposals accepted anytime
Foundational Research in Robotics (FFR) – proposals accepted anytime
Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics – proposals accepted anytime
Geophysics – proposals accepted anytime
Linguistics –Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Manufacturing Systems Integration - proposals accepted anytime
Mathematical Biology – proposals accepted anytime
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics –Jan 30 & Aug 28, 2025
Molecular and Cellular Biosciences – proposals accepted anytime
Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence –Feb 12 & Aug 6, 2025
Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace – proposals accepted anytime
Security and Preparedness –Jan 15 & Aug 15, 2025
Social Psychology – Jan 15 and Jul 15 annually
Sociology – proposals accepted anytime
Statistics – Dec 1-16, 2024
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities.
Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) –Track 1 & 2 proposals accepted anytime; Tracks 3 & 4 Nov 20, 2024
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Core)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – Various funding mechanisms available
Computer Science for All (CS for All) –Feb 12, 2025
Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Sep 30, 2025 for CAT, CSDM-B, and SYN; Oct 31, 2024 for CMI, ECS and MSN
Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program – Accepted anytime
Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Varies by topic
Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities Program – Accepted anytime
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) – Jan 23, 2025
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) –Jan 21 and Aug 19, 2025
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC) – Preliminary Proposals due Mar 12 or Sep 10, 2025
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program –Feb 4 and Aug 5, 2025
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) – Nov 14, 2024 and Sept 8, 2025
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 20, 2025
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 9, 2024
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Biological Sciences (BIORETS) – Jul 31, 2025
Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) – Accepted anytime
EDUCATION/TRAINING
WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include an Introduction to the WSU Office of Research with resources and contacts, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding utilizing Pivot, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
NIH: Science of Science Communication (SIG): The Power of Words: Stigma and Its Effects on Health Outcomes: October 3, 2024
“For our October SciOSciComm SIG meeting, we are excited to hear from Dr. Brenda Curtis of the NIDA Intramural Research Program. Dr. Curtis leads the Technology and Translational Research Unit where she pairs evidenced-based research with novel methods and emerging technologies to address the societal need for empirically validated drug use interventions. Dr. Curtis also co-Chairs the NIH Stigma Scientific Interest Group. Through clinical research, her work intersects addiction treatment, technology, and long-term recovery. Using natural-language processing, digital phenotyping, and big data methodologies, she focuses on enhancing precision assessment of substance use and behavioral predictors using intensive longitudinal data and integrating passive sensor data from smartphones and wearable devices. Dr. Curtis has authored multiple publications in the field of addiction medicine and machine learning, and use of generative AI.”
NIH: National Cancer Institute (NCI): Addressing Latino Cancer Health Disparities Using Equity-Minded Bench-to-Community Research: October 7, 2024
“Dr. Carvajal-Carmona's groundbreaking research, including the discovery of common variants linked to colorectal cancer, and his commitment to addressing health disparities through science, advocacy, and global health, have made a lasting impact. This seminar will explore how equity-minded research can help close the gaps in Latino cancer care, from bench science to community-based interventions. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in cancer health equity and engage in discussions about reducing cancer disparities in Latino communities.”
NSF: Research Traineeship Program (NRT) Track 2 and Planning Office Hours: October 8, 2024
“The NRT program will be hosting office hours to provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions about the program and new solicitation with a specific focus on NRT Track 2 and Track 2 Planning Grants. The NRT program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.” WSU is limited to two applications; email proposals@wichita.edu by 12noon on September 26, 2024 if you are interested in applying, in case an internal competition is needed.
Department of Justice: Recognizing Trauma in Older Adults and Adopting Trauma-Informed Principles: Implications for Law Enforcement: October 10, 2024
“Whether it occurred recently or decades ago, trauma can influence the interactions that elder justice professionals, including law enforcement, have when working with older victims. In this webinar, attendees will learn how trauma affects behaviors and emotions, and the signs and symptoms of trauma observed in older adults. Attendees will learn how understanding trauma can improve engagement with older victims and create more positive outcomes for law enforcement investigations. A detective with the Cambridge Police Department will discuss how and why the entire department adopted trauma-informed practices.”
NIH: How Do Diverse Perspectives Enhance Data Science Outcomes? Webinar: October 17, 2024
“The first Scientific Workforce Diversity Seminar Series event of the 2024–2025 season will feature speakers from NCI, ODSS, and NIBIB, discussing the impact of inclusive environments and diverse perspectives among data science researchers and data sets. They will also explore how the growing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in health sciences benefits from diverse representation.”
Register for NIH SWDSS Webinar
Gulf Research Program: Building Health and Climate Research Capacity in the U.S. Gulf Coast: Elevating Minority-Serving Institutions as Key Partners: Workshop 1: October 29, 2024
“With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this workshop is the first in a series that explores opportunities for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to have greater participation, competitiveness, and leadership in community-engaged research efforts. Participants will engage in discussions around the current status of available infrastructures to support MSI-led community-engaged research, as well as examine opportunities for MSIs to lead research related to climate, health, and resilience.”
Hanover Research Upcoming Grants Workshops: October 31, 2024 and November 21, 2024
Hanover Research offers a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on October 31, 2024 is titled “What Deadline?! Keeping Yourself and Others On-Task in Grant Development” and the webinar on November 21, 2024 is titled “Integrating Theoretical Frameworks into Grant Proposals.”
Register for Upcoming Hanover Workshops
Department of Justice: Utilizing Decision-Making Capacity Assessments in Criminal Cases: November 14, 2024
“Consent is a frequent defense in financial crimes, sexual assaults, and caregiver neglect cases involving older adults; however, a victim’s diminished decision-making capacity may undermine what appears to be consent, triggering a violation of the law. In this webinar, Dr. LoFaso, a geriatrician, will discuss the concept of decision-making capacity and how it is assessed. Then, Page Ulrey, a prosecutor, will discuss how a victim’s diminished decision-making capacity is used in making charging decisions, how to access professional evaluators, and how evidence of diminished decision-making capacity is used and defended at trial.”
REMINDER: WSU Information Security: Data Privacy & Security Training, Questions or Reporting
If your research includes patient medical data and you need to take HIPAA / Sensitive Data Handling training, if you have a question about data privacy or security, or need to report a concern, please contact the WSU Privacy or Security Office.
Privacy: 316-978-4HIP (4447) or privacy@wichita.edu
Security: 316-978-4SEC (4732) or askinfosec@wichita.edu
REMINDER - Hanover Grants Learning Center Available
WSU Faculty and Staff may now access course content through the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center by registering and using a referral code. Courses are designed for on-demand grantsmanship training.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to request the referral code to register for access to the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center.
Learn to Use BeoShock for your Advanced Research Computing Needs
Wichita State University continues to host Beoshock, a High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC). This HPC is available and free to faculty members, researchers and students engaged in course work or research activities. BeoShock runs the CentOS Linux operating system and features approximately 720 processor cores, two high memory compute nodes with 1.5 terabytes of memory, and four graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. BeoShock also has a variety of software tools that may be helpful in your research endeavors, such as Matlab, Mathematica, R, Python and many more.
Learn more about BeoShock High-Performance Computing and access the BeoShock High Performance Computing User Guides
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Help Inform the Campus Cyberinfrastructure Master Plan – Survey due September 25, 2024
“Wichita State University is developing a Campus Cyberinfrastructure Master Plan to enhance computing, data, and software resources critical to supporting research and education. This initiative aims to interconnect campus research labs, create a shared research storage system and establish a regional computing system...”
2024 WSU Academic Computing and Data Capabilities Survey
National Science Foundation (NSF) Updated Grant General Conditions (GC-1) Terms
“The primary purpose of the revision of the Grant General Conditions (GC-1) is to implement the revised 2 CFR published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024, by the Office of Management and Budget. As part of its implementation strategy, NSF has archived the Research Terms and Conditions (RTC), and the NSF Agency Specific Requirements. Unless otherwise specified, the GC-1 applies to all recipients of NSF grant awards.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH Grants Policy Updates: FY2025 Edition – Registration Open for October 17, 2024 Webinar
“Fall is approaching and that means a new fiscal year for the federal government, FY2025. Not only is it a good time to hear the latest funding updates, but it’s also ideal for catching up on the latest changes in NIH policies, systems, and resources. On October 17, 2024, the NIH Office of Extramural Research is hosting a webinar featuring policy experts who will share essential updates and address how these changes might impact your institution’s compliance process, policies, and procedures.”
NASA Grant Notice: Forthcoming Grant Policies in Response to 2 CFR Revisions and NSPM-33
“To streamline and simplify NASA-specific grant policy, the agency will release a revised edition of the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM) on October 1, 2024. The revised GCAM will combine the current Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM) and the Proposer’s Guide into a single, consolidated document. Applicants will no longer have to consult one document for pre-award information, such as registering in NASA’s proposal system and instructions on responding to Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs), and a separate document for information on award, post-award, and closeout activities. The revised GCAM will provide a single source for comprehensive, NASA-specific grant policy that spans the entire grant life cycle. This document will be available on the NASA Grant Policy and Compliance website upon publication.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Unlocking the Potential of Data Reuse: Award Challenge for Researchers
“Biomedical research has generated millions of datasets and we are issuing a $500,000 challenge to get the most out of them. The 2024 DataWorks! Prize, a partnership between the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, invites you to conduct a secondary research analysis project that generates new scientific findings from existing datasets.”
Unlocking the Potential of Data Reuse
National Institutes of Health (NIH): New Decision Matrix Further Clarifies NIH Processes for Handling Allegations of Foreign Influence
“Today NIH issued a decision matrix for assessing potential foreign interference as part of its ongoing efforts to be transparent about its policies and procedures. The decision matrix builds on the detailed information already available on our site, including the process we take to handle new allegations of foreign interference, and offers additional detail as to how NIH considers whether to contact institutions to request additional information.”
Read more about NIH Processes for Handling Allegations of Foreign Influence
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Analysis of Existing Linked Datasets to Understand the Relationship between Housing Program Participation and Risk for Chronic Diseases and Other Conditions (R01-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
“This NOSI expresses the interest of the participating Institutes and Offices in the evaluation of the effects of housing program participation on risk for chronic diseases and conditions within their missions. Housing programs or policies of interest may be supported by federal, state, or local-level agencies or organizations. Applications in response to this NOSI must propose to evaluate existing datasets with housing program participation data that can be administratively linked to health outcome data. Projects that propose to evaluate longitudinal health outcomes are particularly encouraged.”
ARPA-H Launches PRECISE-AI
“The Performance and Reliability Evaluation for Continuous Modifications and Useability of Artificial Intelligence (PRECISE-AI) program aims to develop capabilities that can automatically detect and mitigate AI model degradation. These tools will monitor the performance of clinical AI models, identify if a degradation has occurred, and provide capabilities that can correct for performance degradations without the need for human oversight, thereby reducing the burden on individual operators. Importantly, this technology will also communicate clear and actionable information about the sources of degradation and allow users to better interpret model uncertainty, and thus help them use their software more effectively.”
Read More About PRECISE-AI and Other ARPA-H Programs
William T. Grant Foundation Announces New Grantee Awards in the Areas of Reducing Inequality and Improving the Use of Research Evidence
“Among the grants focused on reducing inequality include studies investigating whether state policies requiring students to take advanced high school courses reduce racial and gender inequalities in advanced course-taking; whether permanently expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would reduce racial income inequality among young adults; how mixed-income neighborhood initiatives improve educational opportunities and outcomes for Black youth from low-income families; and whether brief psychological interventions that improved short-term academic outcomes among Black and Latinx secondary students have longer-term effects. The grants on improving the use of research evidence will examine the use of research evidence in mental health clinical supervision and treatment activities, and its downstream impact on youth outcomes; and assess whether and how using a decision-making tool, the Discrete Event Simulation model, will improve the local relevance and use of research evidence for school-based mental health decision-making.”
Read About William T. Grant Foundation's Recent Award Topics
NIHCM Foundation Releases Infographic About the Promise of AI in Healthcare
“AI is Transforming Patient Care. The use and acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding rapidly in health care…”
NIHCM Foundation Infographic on AI & Health Care
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP): Open Funding Opportunities and Webinars
CDMRP’s currently open funding opportunities include Arthritis, Defense Medical Research and Development, Glioblastoma, Kidney Cancer and Reconstructive Transplant Research. CDMRP hosts webinars on the pre-application process and funding opportunities. Visit CDMRP’s YouTube page to watch previous webinars.
REMINDER: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Will Require Use of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current & Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025
“NIH will implement the Common Forms without change to any collection fields. However, in accordance with NIH’s Peer Review Regulations at 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 52h, NIH currently plans to continue collecting three required agency specific data elements (i.e., Personal Statement, Contributions to Science, and Honors) to assess qualifications. These data elements will be collected separately from the Common Forms on a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement.” The Office of Research encourages WSU Principal Investigators to set up their profile in SciENcv and to email funding@wichita.edu for assistance in setting up their profile well in advance.
Read NIH Notice NOT-OD-24-163 on Adoption of Common Forms
REMINDER - Wichita Public Schools (USD 259): Advance Notice Required for Letters of Support and/or Participation in Research
Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) requests a minimum of 30 business days to process letters of support or participation in research. It is WSU’s responsibility to have appropriate support from the school(s)/personnel that will be involved in the project prior to submitting a request. Letters of Support/Grant Proposals: WSU personnel who need a letter of support or USD259 participation on a grant proposal, should complete the External-Request for Grant Support form and are encouraged to reach out directly to Holly Wilson at hwilson@usd259.net early in the process for questions/clarification. Research Requests: WSU personnel who want to conduct research in USD 259, must download and complete the Research Request Document. Investigators are encouraged to reach out directly to Will Graves at wgraves@usd259.net early in the process for questions/clarifications.
As a reminder, all proposals submitted on behalf of WSU must be reviewed by the Office of Research prior to submission. This includes proposals where WSU is a direct recipient of funds and proposals where WSU is a proposed subawardee/subcontractor. Please contact the Office of Research at proposals@wichita.edu to get started.
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