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Faculty Invited to Share Health Equity IDEAS
 Building Health Equity is one of the four priority areas of the IDEAS program, rolled out in 2021 by the U-M School of Public Health. PIs Enrique Neblett and Justin Colacino will launch this topic at an event on December 1, 9:30-11 am, at the Michigan League, to rally collaborators and build momentum around this complex research area. All U-M faculty are invited to join this kick-off event to begin to identify sustainable ways to dismantle racism and other forms of inequality to address health equity across populations. The event will allow attendees to share ideas and get connected to a campus-wide network.
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Research Grants on Preventing & Alleviating Poverty
 Poverty Solutions invites faculty at U-M's Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to pursue research projects that can inform existing policies, practices, or interventions meant to prevent or reduce poverty or research that lays out proposals for future policy directions. Junior faculty are encouraged to apply, and partnerships with faculty across multiple campuses are strongly encouraged.
Poverty Solutions will award up to five grants of $20,000 each on a rolling basis; there is no set deadline to apply for the funding. Request for Proposals.
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Innovation Crossroads Fellowship at Oak Ridge
 Innovation Crossroads, a Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is offering a two-year $115,000 per year fellowship, $150,000 in R&D funding, access to DOE facilities and professional development to researchers whose early-stage innovations are presently too challenging or technically uncertain to pursue in a venture capital-financed startup. To learn more, register for the information webinar (TODAY, November 9), 1-2pm ET. Applications are due November 30.
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Packard Foundation Fellowship for Early-Career Faculty
Packard Foundation Fellowships support early career faculty in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science and all branches of engineering. U-M can submit two awards per institution. The U-M internal deadline is January 15, 2024, and requires a research statement, NIH formatted biosketch and three possible reference letter writers.
Register for the information session on November 17, 3-4 PM, to learn more.
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Incorporating DEIA into Grant Proposals
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) are high priorities for federal agencies, both in their internal management and in the grants they award.
On November 30, noon-1 pm, learn how to meaningfully integrate DEIA into grant proposals. Register here.
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HHMI James H. Gilliam, Jr. Fellows Program
The James H. Gilliam, Jr. Fellows Program (the Gilliam Fellows Program) is an initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture. The program supports pairs of graduate students and their faculty advisers who, together, embody scientific leadership, an important component of which is a commitment to building an equitable and inclusive science culture. For the 2024 cohort, the total amount awarded will be $53,000 per year for up to three years. Applications due December 7. Learn more and apply.
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Overton Policy Data Micro Grant
Overton is accepting applications to support projects that  study the use of evidence in policy. Projects can be exploratory or explanatory, focusing on how policymakers assess academic work and identifying pathways for researchers to change public behavior and opinion. The Overton Policy Data Micro Grant 2023 is focused on short, tightly scoped, original research proposals that have a concrete output. Grants up to £5,000 are due December 1. Find out more and apply.
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The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute
 The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a week-long institute and mini-grant program to help develop digital research ideas and provide planning support for the conceptualization of a project focusing on anti-racist or reparative research methodologies. This institute will award up to six grants, $5,000 each. Awardees will work with peers and digital scholarship technical and methodological experts to develop an ethical, sustainable, justice-oriented digital project proposal or plan.
Applications are due December 22 and open to faculty, post-doctoral researchers, graduate students and staff of U-M's three campuses. Learn more about the application, or join an online Q&A information session on November 21, December 5 or December 19, 3:30-4:30 pm.
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Workshop: Zotero Citation Management Tool
Are you struggling to organize the sources that you’ve found for your research? Do you want to share those sources with your colleagues around the world? Do you spend hours trying to format your bibliography? Join Taubman Health Sciences Library to learn about Zotero, a free citation management tool that can create and organize personal and group libraries, annotate PDFs, add in-text citations, and more.
The workshop will be held November 16, 1-2 pm, on Zoom and in person at NCRC, Building 16, Room B003. Learn more and register
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Generative AI - Commercialization & IP Trends
 Join Innovation Partnerships on November 30 at 3:30 pm for the next installment of the Software Thought-Leadership Webinar Series, “Generative AI - Commercialization Spotlight & IP Trends.” This webinar will delve into critical intellectual property (IP) and legal considerations for university innovators, as well as patent and copyright trends. Two GAI-based technologies developed at U-M and their journeys toward commercialization and broader societal impact will also be spotlighted. Register here
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Fall 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference
 Register now for the Fall 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference, held December 4-7. The conference is designed to give new faculty, researchers and administrators key insights into a range of current issues at NSF. NSF staff will provide up-to-date information about policies and procedures, explain funding opportunities and answer attendee questions. Registration is free. For those who cannot attend the conference live, all recorded conference sessions will be available on-demand after the event and posted on the NSF website and YouTube pages.
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RD Community of Practice
 Do you find yourself struggling to get members of interdisciplinary research teams to speak the same language? Are there better ways to help an established team find an innovative way to solve a tricky challenge? Join the U-M RD Community of Practice TODAY, November 9, 12:15–12:45 pm via Zoom. This month’s topic will be resources for facilitating research team meetings. Bold Challenges team members will be on hand to share how they are using their toolkit of resources when they are working with teams. Grab some lunch and join the conversation!
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Research Cores
Did you know that the U-M Dental School has three Research Core Facilities available to U-M researchers? Click on the links below to find out more about the services, equipment, and expertise available to help you along your research journey. Orders for the cores below can be submitted via iLabs.
- Histology Core specializes in tissue processing, embedding, sectioning, hematoxylin and eosin staining, special stains and frozen sectioning. Contact: Theresa Cody (tcody@umich.edu)
- MicroCT Core uses a Scanco μCT 100 micro-computed tomography system to provide high-resolution scans of radio-opaque specimens such as bone, contrasted soft tissue, biomaterials, etc. The system accommodates large specimens (up to 100mm diameter x 120mm length). Typical resolution for mouse bones is between 6 - 12μm; for smaller specimen a resolution of 2.5 μm is possible. Contact: Michelle Lynch (malyn@umich.edu)
- Molecular Biology Core (MBC) provides real-time quantitative PCR service (QuantStudio3, ABI-7500 instruments). The MBC also provides qPCR methodology, technique, and experiment design consultation, as well as qPCR data analysis, statistics, and result interpretation. Contact: Taocong Jin (tcjin@umich.edu)
For a list of Research Core Facilities on campus please visit the Michigan Cores Website. If you are interested in learning more about the Research Cores, please sign up for the At The Core Newsletter, delivering news, events, and more directly to your inbox!
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Internal Funding 
Explore Research Commons for all currently open
U-M campus-wide internal funding programs.
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Following is a select list of Calls for Intent to Submit and Limited Submissions internal competitions, coordinated by the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) and the Medical School. For a comprehensive list of currently open opportunities, visit the OVPR Limited Submissions Homepage.
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Nov. 13, 2023- Internal Deadline
Jan. 22, 2024- Sponsor Deadline
Funding: see solicitation
Limit: 1
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Below are select external funding opportunities. For assistance finding additional federal and private funding opportunities, researchers may access:
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Sponsor: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and FoodShot Global
Proposal due: December 1, 2023
Funding: up to $575,000
Program: supports research that considers how water cycles interact with soil health, precision protein, and bioactive foods.
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Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Proposal due: December 6, 2023
Funding: up to $50,000
Program: supports rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
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Sponsor: NIH
Proposal due: January 26, 2024
Funding: $500,000/yr
Program: supports development and translation of medical technologies aimed at reducing disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes.
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Sponsor: NSF
Proposal due: February 1, 2024
Funding: varied, up to $2M
Program: supports design and development of synthetic or artificial cells or cell-like systems to learn about biological function or evolution of life processes, and for biotechnology applications.
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Finding Funding: Identifying Opportunities & Scoping the Grants Landscape
November 10, noon-1 pm
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U-M Annual Data Science and AI Summit
November 13-14
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Research Abroad Preparation Information Session
November 13, November 28, 1-2:30 pm
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MICHR IMPACT Workshop
November 14, 16; 2-3 pm
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Keck Foundation Funding Information Session
November 16, 3-4 pm
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Sage Research Methods Workshop
November 16, 12-12:50 pm
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U-M I-Corps Fall 2023 program
Free research innovation & entrepreneurship workshop for grad students, faculty & researchers
November 17, 9-11 am
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When Do I Need an IND?
November 29, 5-7 pm
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MICHR Community and Academic Mixer
December 1
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 ARPA-H Workshop
December 4, 11-12 pm
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 Responsible Conduct of Research for K Scholars
January-May 2024
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