Graduate and Research Awards
and Funding Opportunities
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Check out the new Grant Seeking Resource!
A self-guided tool that we hope will make grant seeking easier and more efficient by providing information on funding opportunities in a format that can be searched, filtered, and browsed across both current and closed competitions. The new "Grant Seeking Resource" tool linked below is created through Microsoft Power BI. In order to access the tool, you must sign in to Office 365 with your Penn State credentials. Happy grant seeking!
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Introducing the new College of Agricultural Sciences Grant Seeking Resource!
This tool is replacing the former Funding Newsletter to better aid you in searching, browsing, and discovering new opportunities to support your research programs.
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Be sure to bookmark this page so you can search for grants anytime!
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Highlights | Internal Competitions
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Penn State Materials Research Institute Sustainable Materials
This thrust is aimed at collaborations that broadly address the processing, characterization, and circular technoeconomic analyses of sustainable materials. Broad topics of interest include CO2 material footprint, bioprocesses for sustainable materials, circular economy, disruptive concepts in materials recycling, and detailed analyses and case studies. Ideally, collaborations will include processing and characterization tasks with well-justified technical and sustainability goals and analyses that direct the path towards new materials research.
Full Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2021
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Penn State Materials Research Institute Convergence at the Intersection of Materials – Life – Health Sciences
This topic area is focused on the discovery of new materials, concepts, and technologies that provide a platform for breakthrough research at the convergence of materials science and engineering, life sciences, and health science. The aim is to seed collaborations between researchers affiliated with the Materials Research Institute, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and the College of Medicine. Priority areas for this topic include regenerative medicine, materials characterization applied to biological samples of interest, artificial organs and limbs including advanced prosthetics.
Full Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2021
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Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) Seed Funding
The Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) invites short proposals for seed-funding from Penn State faculty, for research that advances its mission of promoting, practicing, and studying socially responsible ways of using, building, and deploying AI technology. Pilot projects should show potential for transformational research on AI that can contribute to Social Good, Social Accountability, Social Consciousness, Social Justice, Equity, Ethicality, Fairness, Inclusivity, Transparency, Privacy, Human Agency or related concepts and topics.
Full Proposal Deadline: December 1, 2021
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Penn State Social Science Research Institute Large Pilot Award
The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) invites proposals for innovative pilot research projects that contribute to SSRI’s strategic mission of fostering interdisciplinary research that addresses critical human and social problems at the local, national, and international levels. The goal of this request for proposals is to enable new interdisciplinary teams to pursue novel and potentially high impact basic and applied research. Although proposals aligning with SSRI’s Strategic Foci are welcome, we are especially interested in those that address at least one of the following priorities: Expands our understanding of the factors that lead to social disparities and their effects on education, health, or economic outcomes over the life course; Informs the development of policies, systems, and/or other strategies that impact education, health, or economic outcomes of populations and reduces inequity across people and places; Emphasizes engagement of communities and other stakeholders.
Letter of Intent Deadline: December 3, 2021
Full Proposal Deadline: January 21, 2022
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NEW!
Small Equipment Grants
The College of Agricultural Sciences’ Office for Research and Graduate Education has allocated up to $100,000 available to sponsor co-funded equipment purchases. Small ($2,500) to large ($20,000) proposals will be considered. Co-funding of 1:1 is required. Impact on multiple faculty is required; tangible evidence that more than a single individual will use this equipment for research (including graduate education aspects) is mandatory. Additional details at the link above.
Full Proposal Deadline: December 10, 2021
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NEW!
CAS Early-Career Faculty Professional Development Awards
These awards are supported by the Joan Luerssen Faculty Enhancement Fund and the Horace T. Woodward Faculty Development Fund. Eligible applicants must be full-time faculty members, in the initial phase of their academic career, within the College of Agricultural Sciences who hold the rank of Assistant Professor (includes NTT and TT faculty appointments). Funding may be used to support activities and associated costs that will have an impact on advancing professional programs of early-career faculty (e.g., grantsmanship trainings, costs associated with submission of manuscripts to scholarly journals, travel to conferences, or program support in teaching, research, and/or extension activities).
Applications accepted on a rolling basis until April 30, 2022
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USDA Predoctoral Prep Workshop: Leveraging peer review to build better applications
Workshop Schedule: Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00 pm (Spring 2022 Semester)
Download Flyer for details
Register
Hosted by: CAS Faculty | Liana Burghard (PLSC), Terrence Bell (PPEM), and Jill Hamilton (ESM, Schatz Center)
Workshop Goals:
- Submit a competitive application for the USDA Education and Workforce Development Predoctoral Program
- Learn skills in writing, peer review, and integrating critique
- Build a writing community for this and future projects
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Resources & Training Spotlight
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Access Points to Advance Your Research
Supporting your Research with Federal and State Funding
Provided by CAS Office for Research and Graduate Education
About this resource
The "Access Points to Advance your Research" Webinar Series is designed to introduce researchers in the college to the people and resources available to them at Penn State that can help to advance their research programs. In this webinar, the CAS Office for Research and Graduate Education provides an overview of the support provided by this office to help advance faculty research through research development and the support for capacity and external grant administration.
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Partnering for Success
Foundation Relations and You
Provided by Penn State Office of Foundation Relations
About this resource
In this webinar, the Penn State Office of Foundation Relations provides an introduction to Foundation funding and working with our office.
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