December 1 

Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (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. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the MEFL award provides a $17,500 grant to free the time of junior faculty. 

January 3

Steinbeck Fellowship Program​
The Steinbeck Fellows Program offers emerging writers of any age and background the opportunity to pursue a significant writing project while in residence at SJSU. The emphasis of the program is on helping writers who have had some success but have not published extensively, and whose promising work would be aided by the financial support and sponsorship of the Center and the University's creative writing program.Fellowships include a stipend of $15,000. Residency in the San Francisco Bay Area is required during the academic year (approximately September - May).

January 9 

JCB Library Fellowships

The JCB awards over forty fellowships annually to scholars engaged in research on the early Americas. Fellowships are awarded to scholars to support dedicated research, either remotely or in residence, in the JCB’s collections. Fellowship awards include a stipend, which varies for short and long-term fellowships.

January 15

Winterthur Research Fellowships
Fellows can utilize the 20,000 American and European imprints, 3,000 record groups of manuscripts, as well as trade catalogues, ephemera, photographs, and archives of the Winterthur Library, an independent, world-class research collection. They can also examine Winterthur Museum’s expansive object collections of more than 90,000 artifacts that help us broadly understand four centuries of everyday life in America in a global context. 

January 15

University of Rochester Humanities Center External Fellowship
External fellowships are awarded to scholars who hold tenure-track positions at other institutions. Fellows will participate in the bi-weekly Humanities Center seminar and in the Center’s other workshops, conferences, and programs and be in residence in Rochester to play an active role in the Center. Fellows will receive a stipend up to $60,000 (commensurate with experience and need), and may apply for funds to support research and travel, contingent on available resources. 

January 15

Bogliasco Fellowship
Approximately 60 Fellowships - or residencies - are awarded to artists and scholars in the various disciplines of the Arts and Humanities (Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, Dance, Film/Video, History, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Theater, and Visual Arts) per year. Fellows are provided with living quarters, a work space, and full board for a month at the Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy. 

January 15

Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowships

• Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Scholarly Research
  Short-term residential fellowships support scholars whose work would benefit from significant primary research onsite at the Folger for one, two, or three months, with a monthly stipend of $4,000. These fellowships are designed to support a concentrated period of full-time work on research projects that draw on the strengths of the Folger’s collections and programs. 
   
• Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Artistic Research
  The Folger Institute offers short-term artistic research fellowships for a period of one, two or three months. The Artist Research Fellowship is open to artists working in all media whose work would benefit from significant primary research onsite at the Folger. This includes, but is not limited to, visual artists, writers, dramaturgs, playwrights, performers, filmmakers, and composers. 

NSF’s New Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1) has been issued!

The new PAPPG is effective for proposals submitted/due on or after January 30, 2023, and significant changes include:

• Research.gov will replace FastLane for proposal preparation and submission.
• Revisions to the certification for Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR) for proposals submitted on or after July 31, 2023, which expands the training to faculty and other senior personnel as well as requires specific training mandated by the America COMPETES Act, as amended.
• Use of Concept Outlines as a submission type and the Program Suitability and Proposal Concept Tool (ProSPCT).
• Requirement for proposers to provide a certification regarding Safe and Inclusive Working Environments for Off-Campus and Off-Site Research.
• Revisions to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support formats to include certifications from the individual (as required by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act,  Section 223) regarding information being accurate, current, and complete.
• Requirement for NSF program officers to request updated Current and Pending Support information prior to making a funding recommendation, in accordance with the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance.
• Requirements for use of SciENcv for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support documents.
• Implementation of Build America, Buy America statutes.
• New sections on Research Security and Scientific Integrity.