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2022 Greater Value Portfolio Program
The Donaghue Foundation is calling for letters of intent for its 2022 Greater Value Portfolio program, which aims to test approaches and tools that organizations can readily use to improve the value of the health care they provide to their patients and communities. Grants of up to $400,000 over up to two years will be awarded in support of promising approaches to create a higher value healthcare system. Proposed research should be focused on developing actionable solutions to one or more of the symptoms of low-value health care such as high and rising costs; racial and ethnic disparities in access, prices, and outcomes; and lack of transparency in both price and outcomes. Click here for details.
Deadline: March 8, 2022 (Letters of Intent)
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Call for Proposals for the Center for Coastal Studies
The Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies invites seed grant proposals from members of the Virginia Tech community to increase the university's capacity in coastal-zone research, extension and engagement, and education. The goal of the grants is to form and foster interdisciplinary groups to address research, extension and engagement, and educational needs to better understand and find innovative solutions for complex contemporary and emerging environmental, societal, security, political, and economic issues in the coastal zone. Five to seven grants up to $15,000 each will be funded. Click here for details.
Deadline: March 15, 2022
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Research Lab Grants
Through NEA Research Labs, NEA cultivates a series of transdisciplinary research partnerships, grounded in the social and behavioral sciences, to produce and report empirical insights about the arts for the benefit of arts practitioners, but also for non-arts sectors such as healthcare, education, and business or management. Institutions of higher education and/or nonprofit research and policy organizations may submit applications to be NEA Research Labs. NEA Research Labs serve as “hubs” or centers of excellence in the domain of interest. Each NEA Research Lab will develop a pipeline of projects or products, including a website, while conducting at least one major study. Click here for details.
Deadline: March 28, 2022
Research Grants in the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is accepting applications for its Research Grants in the Arts program that supports studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts. In addition to past topics of interest, the NEA also welcomes proposals in three new areas, featured in NEA’s new five-year research agenda to be implemented in 2024: 1) the arts’ role in the healing and revitalization of communities; 2) diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts; and 3) the evolving arts ecology. Grants will range from $10,000 to $100,000. All grants require a non-federal cost share/match of at least 1 to 1. Click here for details.
Deadline: March 28, 2022
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Research to Advance Health Equity in Virginia
The Jeffress Memorial Trust has recently completed a landscape assessment of health needs and funding initiatives within Virginia. Based upon those findings, the 2022 grant cycle will support research that addresses the root causes of health inequities within Virginia, including:
- Partnership/Collaborative Establishment Awards to support the development and establishment of collaborative efforts upon which to carry out future research activities to advance health equity
- Research Awards to support collaborative research partnerships to conduct research to advance health equity in one of the following areas:
- Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Strategies Analysis
- Program/Practice Analysis
- General Research
Community partners must be involved in these proposals. Interested researchers may want to reach out to VT Foundation Relations for assistance. Click here for more details.
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Assessment of Suicide Thoughts and Behaviors among Children and Preteens
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest is to encourage research that addresses outstanding questions related to the developmentally and culturally appropriate characterization and assessment of STB in children/preteens. Click here for details.
Deadline: June 16, 2022 (first of several)
Emergency Awards: RADx®-UP - Social, Ethical, and Behavioral Implications Research on Disparities in COVID-19 Testing
This funding opportunity provides an expedited funding mechanism to support two-year, community-engaged research projects that focus on (1) the urgent need for social, ethical, and behavioral implications research to understand and reduce barriers to COVID-19 testing and address COVID-19 disparities among underserved and vulnerable populations, and (2) psychological and communication science interventions to improve uptake of testing and vaccination. Investigators planning to submit an application in response are strongly encouraged to contact and discuss their proposed research/aims with Program staff to better determine appropriateness and interest. Click here for details.
Deadline: May 2, 2022
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Strengthening American Infrastructure
NSF's Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) solicitation focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral, economic sciences deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking, fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific and focal infrastructure. Click here for details.
NSF is offering an applicant information webinar on March 15, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Click here to register.
ISCE is offering to help researchers in social sciences and humanities interested in this call find collaborators in other relevant fields (computer science, engineering, chemistry, etc) and help facilitate the development competitive proposals. If interested in assistance, contact Isabel Bradburn at ISCE and explain your interest/need for help.
Deadline: May 5, 2022
DCL: Information Integrity for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to encourage the submission of novel and high impact proposals that advance knowledge on the integrity of information to the SaTC Program solicitation. The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program aims to promote fundamental research on security, privacy, and trustworthy cyberspace as a multidisciplinary subject that leads to new knowledge and approaches to design, build, and operate cyber systems, protect persons, organizations, and existing infrastructure, and motivate and educate individuals about cybersecurity and privacy. Click here for details.
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Previously Posted Opportunities
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Conferences, Seminars and Events
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NIFA Offers Webinar on Grant Writing
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture is offering a free webinar on the "Essentials for Successful Grant Writing" on Wednesday, March 2nd at 2:00 p.m. Click here to register.
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Pioneers in Biomedical Research Seminar: Focus on Obesity
Carrie Ferrario from the University of Michigan Medical School will be presenting, "Why Did I Eat That? Alterations in Brain and Behavior Contributing to Obesity" on March 4 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. in Room G101A-B, 4 Riverside Circle at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke. A remote option is also available. Click here for details.
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Broader Impacts 101
Learn about processes and support available to Virginia Tech researchers to develop and evaluate broader impact plans that help meet funding agency requirements and that are mutually beneficial to researchers and the public. The session, hosted by the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts (CENI) will be held on March 17 from 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Click here to register.
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Celebrate Communicating Science Week
To celebrate it's five year anniversary, the Center for Communicating Science has planned a number of activities as part of Communicating Science Week! Join the center for a keynote presentation by Elin Kelsey, "Hope Matters: Why Overcoming Doom and Gloom Is Essential to Achieving Climate Justice," on Friday March 18th at 8:00 p.m. They are hosting the Nutshell Games on Saturday, March 19th at 4:00 p.m. Both events will be held at the Anne and Ellen Fife Theater at the Moss Arts Theater. Click here for the event fliers and here to view the complete list of the week's events.
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ISCE to Celebrate 15th Anniversary & Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial with SSRC President
ISCE is hosting Anna Harvey, president of the Social Science Research Council, who will be presenting on strategies that funders and universities can use to increase the production of policy-based evidence of interventions that have an impact at scale. The event will be held on Thursday, March 31st from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in-person at 310 Kelly Hall, with a reception afterwards, and via Zoom. Click here for details and to register.
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Announcements & Faculty News
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CBHDS Drop in Consulting Hours
The Center for Biostatistics and Health Data Science (CBHDS) has weekly Drop-in Consulting Hours for questions related to biostatistics, data science, programming, data management or anything in between on Mondays from 10:00-2:00 and on Wednesdays from 3:00-7:00 p.m. This short-term, no-fee drop-in consulting service is provided compliments of the iTHRIV CTSA and the center's team of biostatisticians. Check out their full range of services here.
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AI in Planning: Why Now Is the Time
Tom Sanchez, professor of urban affairs and planning and an ISCE Scholar, discusses how an APA survey, developed through a collaboration with Virginia Tech researchers, the American Planning Association and Arlington County, VA, reveals how artificial intelligence can benefit planning — and what planners need to learn to make it happen. Read more...
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Center for Communicating Science marks fifth anniversary with first Communicating Science Week
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of its opening celebration in March 2017, the Center for Communicating Science has planned a Communicating Science Week full of activities and events, with keynote speaker Elin Kelsey as the centerpiece. Read more...
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