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New Social Science PREP Program (Preparing your Research for an Extramural Proposal)
The Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment (ISCE) is offering an opportunity for a cohort of faculty members in the social sciences who are new to preparing proposals for extramural funding or who have had limited success in the role of PI. The primary goal of this program is to support faculty whose research is likely to lead to external funding. This two-semester, structured program consists of didactic and interactive sessions resulting in the submission of a grant application by August 2023. Click here for details.
Deadline: September 12, 2022
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The 2023 January Program is Now Open
The Alzheimer's Association Research Grant aims to fund early-career investigators conducting Alzheimer's disease related research. The purpose of this program is to provide newly independent investigators with funding that will allow them to provide preliminary or pilot data to test procedures and develop hypotheses. Click here for details.
Deadline: September 1, 2022 (Letter of intent)
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IES Calls for Grant Applications for the Fiscal Year 2023
The Institute of Education Sciences is now accepting applications for their 2023 grant program. This program is designed to support the state agencies' use of the state's education longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to understand and support learners affected by opportunity and achievement gaps. Click here for more details about the grant program.
Deadline: September 8, 2022
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Call for Faculty Scholars Program Applications
The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. Each year, the Foundation selects approximately 3 Scholars to receive 50 percent salary support for three years to enable them to carry out a specific research proposal. Click here for details. This is a limited submission opportunity so interested applicants should contact Janet Webster before applying.
Deadline: September 19, 2022 (Letters of intent)
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Calls for Proposals for Systems for Action Research Program
Systems for Action is a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that seeks to test new ways of connecting the nation’s fragmented medical, social, and public health systems. Click here for details.
Deadline: September 6, 2022 (Letter of intent)
Healthy Eating Research (HER) Calls for Research on Pandemic-Driven Programs Related to Poverty Reduction
Healthy Eating Research (HER) launched a special funding opportunity focused on how pandemic-driven social and economic programs and policies related to poverty reduction impact child obesity, diet quality, and food and nutrition security. Click here for details.
Deadline: October 12, 2022 (Short concept papers)
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Geneva Centre for Security Policy Calls for Applications for the 2022 Prize for Innovation in Global Security
This prize was established to recognize deserving individuals or organizations that have an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges. It is designed to reach across all relevant disciplines and fields to encourage and recognize excellence in contributing new approaches to enhancing sustainable global security. Click here for details.
Deadline: September 22, 2022
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) for Research on the Health of Bisexual and Bisexual+ People
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is a call for research, research training, and research career development on the health and wellbeing of people who identify as bisexual or bisexual+ (an umbrella term used by NIH). The NOSI is intended to stimulate research into the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social processes that affect the health and welfare of bisexual/bisexual+ individuals, and the development of interventions, preventive strategies, and service delivery methods. Click here for details.
Deadline: September 25, 2022 (varies)
Calls for Research Addressing Violence to Improve Health Outcomes
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to highlight interest in addressing the role of violence in health outcomes and integrating violence-related screening and interventions into health care settings. It is also to encourage intervention research focused on addressing exposure to violence. Click here for details.
Deadline: October 5, 2022
HEAL Initiative: Opioid Use Disorder Care Pathways for Individuals with Histories of Exposure to Violence
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) aims to speed the development and implementation of scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis by bolstering research across NIH to improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and to enhance pain management. Click here for details.
Deadline: October 12, 2022
Call for Proposals on Aging, Race, and Health Disparities
The National Institutes on Aging's (NIA) Research Centers Collaborative Network (RCCN) is seeking to fund at least two pilot or development projects of up to $50,000 each that involve multiple NIA-sponsored research centers to foster new research as it relates to Aging, Race, ad Health Disparities. Click here for details. Click here for the agenda, slides, and recording of a workshop for applying.
Deadline: October 17, 2022
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Wellcome Invites Applications for Sleep and Circadian Science Research
Wellcome’s Mental Health Award is for integrating sleep and circadian science into our understanding and treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychosis. Wellcome is interested in applications that advance understanding of the dynamic changes that occur in sleep and circadian rhythm across trajectories and phases of anxiety, depression and psychosis, in different developmental, geographical, societal and cultural contexts. Click here for details.
Deadline: October 19, 2022
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Calls for Research on Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) This program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease (re)emergence and transmission and testing mathematical or computational models. Click here for details
Deadline: November 16, 2022
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Previously Posted Opportunities
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Congratulations to these Researchers for their Achievements in Gaining Extramural Funding!
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Martha Ann Bell, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology in the College of Science received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, for “An Integrative Longitudinal Analysis of Neural Rhythms in Early Development.”
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Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Associate Professor in the Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, received funding from the National Science Foundation for “Mathematical Formulations of Human Behavior Change in Epidemic Models.”
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Conferences, Seminars, and Events
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Registration Still Open for Rural Education Summit!
Virginia Tech's new Center for Rural Education and the Office of Outreach and International Affairs are sponsoring a rural education summit that will enable participants to share ideas, build partnerships and engage with one another at the Center's inaugural event. The summit will focus on a variety of timely topics such as “Identities and Intersectionalities,” “Supporting Multilingual Learners,” and “Investments in Rural Youth.” The event will be held on August 26th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Inn at Virginia Tech Click here for details and to register.
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Join OSP Pre-Award Associates for an Introduction to Virginia Tech’s Proposal Submission Process
The Office of Sponsored Programs offers either in-person or Zoom options to attend the two-hour review for help answering questions about the details of submitting a proposal. It will be held Friday, September 2, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Click here for details. Register by August 29, 2022. Click here for registration.
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Call for Proposals for the 6th Frascari Symposium: Finishing: The Ends of Architecture
Sponsored by the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, the Frascari Symposium will take place from March 31st - April 1st, 2023 at Virginia Tech's Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia. Keynote speakers include practicing architect Billie Tsien (Yale), architectural theorist David Leatherbarrow (Penn), and social anthropologist Timothy Ingold (Aberdeen). Proposal submissions due September 2, 2022. Click here for details.
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Announcements & Faculty News
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NIH Announces New Format For Virtual Grants Preparation Conference
For the past two years, NIH's virtual grants preparation seminar has spanned four days and included 50 sessions. This year, NIH is providing participants with the opportunity to obtain the content over a longer period, allowing time for the information to digest. They are pulling select topics out of the larger conference and sharing them in monthly pre-conference events, allowing greater opportunity to dive deeper into issues and build time for additional Q&A, case studies, and conversation. For more details, read the full blog.
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