News & Updates

NIBIB announces the launch of the NIH Institutional Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Prize Competition, administered by the Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity and cosponsored by UNITE and 24 institutes and centers across the NIH.

NSF’s Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program supports applied research and development focused on increasing preK-12 students’ interest in careers in information and communication technology and STEM through innovative technology-based learning experiences. As the resource center for the NSF ITEST Program, STELAR is charged with supporting prospective PIs in developing competitive proposals. In doing so, we encourage EPSCoR communities to take advantage of the technical assistance and support aimed at proposal development offered by STELAR. The ITEST solicitation due date is Aug 11.

The DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office plans to release a funding opportunity that will create one or more university-led Centers of Excellence to increase offshore wind expertise at US universities; develop partnerships to address key offshore wind development challenges; and educate the next generation of offshore wind experts in the US.

HBCU-EiR planning grants support initial conceptualization, planning, and collaboration activities that aim to formulate solid plans for a future submission to the HBCU-EiR program. These planning grants are intended to provide eligible investigators with the time and resources needed to generate an HBCU-EiR proposal focusing on research that is well-aligned with an existing funding program within NSF’s directorates.

The objective of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is to help states receiving the least amount of federal research and development (R&D) funds within their postsecondary institutions improve their competitiveness for federal grants and awards. A measure of EPSCoR's effectiveness, then, is whether or not the state's academic research enterprise is capturing a larger share of federal R&D expenditures. This article utilizes data from the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey, analyzing both total and federal HERD dollars, finding that: 1) EPSCoR states are not receiving proportionately more federal HERD dollars and 2) EPSCoR states are more likely to have lower or negative growth in HERD expenditures than non-EPSCoR states.

Critical infrastructure systems must protect human safety and well-being and adapt to unexpected changes. These systems must actively resist adversaries (both known and unknown) and demonstrate resilience in the face of systemic risks. As cyber-physical systems advance, sophisticated tools are needed. Insightful blog about autonomous security by David Ott, VMware, co-lead for the ERVA’s event “Unhackable Infrastructure Visioning.”

NIGMS is pleased to share a new notice of funding opportunity for the UNITE initiative, an NIH-wide effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in biomedical research. The Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) program aims to enhance the breadth and geographical location of research and research-related activities supported by NIH. The program supports the health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and who have no current NIH research project grant funding. ReWARD grants will also provide support for the principal investigator (PI) to continue their DEIA-promoting activities.

The DOE has announced $14 million in funding to support and optimize the production of affordable biofuels and biochemicals while significantly reducing carbon emissions. The 2023 Conversion R&D FOA will accelerate the growth of the bioeconomy by supporting the development of high-impact technologies that convert domestic biomass and waste resources into affordable biofuels and bioproducts through two topic areas.

NSF has announced the launch of Global Centers, an ambitious new effort to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers that will apply best practices of broadening participation and community engagement to develop use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy.

In collaboration with five other US government agencies, NSF has launched the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network, or Proto-OKN, funding opportunity, a $20 million initiative that will build a prototype version of an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure called an open knowledge network.