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NEH: Public Humanities Projects Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - This program funds projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history and reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings. Amount: $1,000,000 Due Date: 01/11/2024 More Information
NIH: Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancers for Years 2024, 2025, and 2026 (P50 Clinical Trial Required) Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - This program funds state-of-the-art investigator-initiated translational research that will contribute to improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of an organ-specific cancer or a highly related group of cancers. Amount: $10,570,000 Due Date: 12/25/2023 (LOI); 01/25/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Consortium Organization and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC) for the Human Virome Program (HVP) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - The Center will serve as the HVP’s organizational and cooperation hub for collecting, storing, curating, and disseminating all data, metadata, analysis and visualization tools, computational models, and aggregate data into a searchable HVP Data Portal. Amount: $14,156,250 Due Date: 10/29/2023 (LOI);11/29/2023 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Human Virome Characterization Centers (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - This NOFO solicits applications to sequence the viruses that comprise the human virome and provide an accurate accounting of its richness and complexity across multiple tissue types and distinct anatomical body sites. Amount: Unspecified Due Date: 10/17/2023 (LOI);11/17/2023 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Human Virome Program: Characterization of functional interactions between viruses and human and microbial hosts (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - This NOFO invites applications to study functional characterization of human virome interactions within human and microbial hosts to define specific interactions that affect viral tropism and host reservoirs. Amount: $5,662,500 Due Date: 10/15/2023 (LOI); 11/15/2023 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Computational Models of Influenza Immunity (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - This program will employ computational modeling and immunologic studies to advance our understanding of the requirements for improving anti-influenza immunity, including inducing broad immune protection and enhancing immune durability. Amount: $5,662,500 Due Date: 12/26/2023 (LOI); 01/26/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: State Dementia Care Research Center (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Thursday, September 14, 2023 - This NOFO invites applications for a Center which aims to ultimately improve care for persons living with dementia and their caregivers/care partners by building a research evidence base that can be used to improve dementia care coordination, integration, and care transitions in community settings, as well as inform policymaking. Amount: $18,875,000 Due Date: 10/14/2023 (LOI); 11/14/2023 (Full […]
NIH: Center for Exposome Research Coordination to Accelerate Precision Environmental Health (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Thursday, September 14, 2023 - This NOFO solicits applications for establishing a Center that will serve the broad biomedical research community by coordinating and advancing exposome research to accelerate precision environmental health. Amount: $7,750,000 Due Date: 10/30/2023 (LOI); 11/30/2023 (Full Proposal) More Information
USDA: Conservation Innovation Grants, On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - This program will stimulate the adoption and evaluation of innovative conservation approaches in partnership with agricultural producers, through projects focused on: irrigation management technologies; feed management and enteric methane reduction; grazing lands; nutrient management; and soil health demonstration trials. Amount: $5,000,000 Due Date: 10/30/2023 More Information
NIH: HEAL INITIATIVE: Development and validation of remote or patient wearable device derived objective biosignatures or functional assessments to monitor pain for use as endpoints in clinical trials (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Optional) Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - This program promotes the discovery, development, and validation of real-world digital endpoints derived from data generated by existing remote or wearable devices. These endpoints will be used for monitoring the experience of pain, its progression, response to interventions, and impact on quality of life. Amount: $1,510,000 (UG3 Phase); $6,795,000 (UH3 Phase) Due Date: 01/30/2024 More Information
New academic year resolution: Creating a culture of awareness and mental wellness Friday, September 1, 2023 - Recently UGA announced its Electric Mobility Initiative, which will bring together students, faculty and staff together from various disciplines to support research and development, sustainability, security and regulation, community and economic development, and business impacts from this industry. Together with private funding, UGA will invest $1 million to create new initiatives to support e-mobility research and development, including a new certificate program in the College of Engineering and battery research in our new I-STEM complex.
NEH: Digital Humanities Advancement Grants Thursday, August 31, 2023 - This program supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects, leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. Amount: $350,000 Due Date: 11/13/2023 (Optional Draft); 01/11/2024 (Full Proposal) More Information
NIH: Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS): Health Equity Research Hubs (UC2 Clinical Trial Optional) Thursday, August 31, 2023 - This program invites applications for Health Equity Research Hubs for awarded community-led health equity structural intervention (CHESI) projects within ComPASS. The Hubs will serve as a centralized research resource for assigned CHESI projects. Amount: $10,192,500 Due Date: 10/31/2023
NIH: HEAL Initiative Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - NIH has released 4 new programs as part of the HEAL Initiative: Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) – Phase II Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center;Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) – Phase II Coordination and Translation Center; HEAL KIDS (Knowledge, Innovation and Discovery Studies) Pain Program Resource and Data Center; HEAL KIDS (Knowledge, Innovation and Discovery […]
NOAA: Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grants Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - This program’s goal is to support transformational habitat restoration projects that restore marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lakes ecosystems, using approaches that enhance community and ecosystem resilience to climate hazards. Amount: $1,000,000 to $25,000,000 Due Date: 11/17/23 More Information
DoD: Adversarial Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance Collaborative Research Program Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - This program will fund collaborative research in two research thrusts: 1) Explore and define CWoS, and 2) Adversarial Resilient Cyber (ARC). Research outcomes are intended to inform the public and private sectors so they can better protect critical infrastructure sectors and defend against state and non-state actors who threaten reliable access to the Internet. Amount: $4,000,000 […]
URAR welcomes new clinical assistant professor in Laboratory Animal Medicine Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - The University Research Animal Resources team is excited to welcome Gianni Campellone as the new clinical assistant professor in the Laboratory Animal Medicine program. Campellone always wanted to work with animals and pursued a degree in zoology before deciding to go into veterinary medicine. After initially getting rejected from veterinary school, however, he began to […]
Think Big: Research that changes lives. Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - Recently UGA announced its Electric Mobility Initiative, which will bring together students, faculty and staff together from various disciplines to support research and development, sustainability, security and regulation, community and economic development, and business impacts from this industry. Together with private funding, UGA will invest $1 million to create new initiatives to support e-mobility research and development, including a new certificate program in the College of Engineering and battery research in our new I-STEM complex.
NEH: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Multidisciplinary teams that include the necessary range of intellectual, technical, and practical expertise are encouraged. Amount: $250,000 Due Date: 02/15/2024 More information
NEH: Collaborative Research Thursday, August 3, 2023 - This program aims to advance humanistic knowledge through collaboration between two or more scholars, and encourages projects that have diverse approaches to topics, incorporate multiple points of view and explore new avenues of inquiry in the humanities. Amount: $300,000 Due Date: 11/29/23 More Information
NOAA: FY2024 Weather Program Office Data Assimilation Consortium Thursday, August 3, 2023 - This program solicits collaborative proposals to (1) establish a multi-university consortium to advance DA research and education, and (2) develop a long-term strategic partnership with NOAA and the broader weather enterprise in advancing DA methodology to improve numerical weather predictions using the Unified Forecast System. Amount: $7,000,000 Due Date: 10/13/23 More Information
NEH: Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities Thursday, August 3, 2023 - This program supports research that examines technology and its relationship to society through the lens of the humanities, with a focus on the dangers and/or opportunities presented by technology, broadly defined. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. Amount: $150,000 Due Date: 10/11/23 […]
NSF: Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Thursday, August 3, 2023 - These Institutes aim to advance research in the mathematical sciences through programs supporting discovery and dissemination of knowledge in mathematics and statistics and enhancing connections to related fields in which the mathematical sciences can play important roles. Amount: $12,500,000 – $30,000,000 Due Date: 03/14/24 More Information
NIH: Next Generation Chemistry Centers for Fusion Oncoproteins (UM1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Wednesday, July 19, 2023 - This program intends to fund interdisciplinary teams focusing on innovative medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and chemoproteomic approaches to target fusion oncoprotein-driven cancers. The goal is to accelerate innovative drug discovery focused on developing small molecules to effectively disrupt fusion oncoproteins. Amount: $11,325,000 Due Date: 10/15/23 (LOI); 11/15/23 (Full Proposal) More information
NIH: Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers (P50 Clinical Trial Optional) Thursday, July 13, 2023 - This program invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams to engage in high-impact studies that will significantly advance clinical practice and generate knowledge that will fuel transformation of mental health care in U.S. Amount: $11,325,000 Due Date: 4/17/24 (LOI); 5/17/24 (Full Proposal) More Information
DOD-AMRAA: Defense Medical Research and Development Program, Trauma Immunology Research Award Thursday, July 13, 2023 - This program will support basic and applied research and early-stage development of material and knowledge products to address critical gaps in the understanding of immune system, immune response, immune function, and other associated host responses in combat injuries. Amount: $2,000,000 Due Date: 11/9/23 More Information
Now (and all the time) is the perfect time to assess lab safety Thursday, June 15, 2023 - Following the recommendations made by multi-year working groups comprising college, school and other unit representatives, this summer the University of Georgia will move from Academic Credit to Collaborator Contribution as a new method for designating investigator contributions to sponsored projects. The change will become effective July 1.
NIH: Precision Mental Health: Develop Tools to Inform Treatment Selection in Depression Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - Create a pipeline to accelerate the development and early validation of predictive tools and/or biomarkers to inform individual-level treatment selection among two or more existing therapeutics for depression. Amount: $9,815,000 Due Date: 10/18/23 More Information
Deadline for Research Scientist promotion dossiers – November 3, 2023 Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - The deadline for receipt of Research Scientist promotion dossiers to Office of Research is Friday, November 3, 2023. Please check with your unit and Dean’s Office for any internal procedures and earlier deadlines.
NSF: Discovery Research PreK-12 Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - Catalyzes research and development that enhances all preK-12 teachers’ and students’ opportunities to engage in high-quality learning experiences related to the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Amount: $5,000,000 Due Date: 11/8/23 More Information
NIH: Integration of Novel Measures for Improved Classification of Type 2 Diabetes Biostatistics Research Center Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - Invites applications for a Biostatistics Research Center to participate in a consortium aimed at improving understanding of heterogeneity of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Amount: $7,550,000 Due Date: 10/26/23 More Information
NIH: Specialized Alcohol Research Centers Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - Invites applications for specialized Alcohol Research Centers using the P50 mechanism. Amount: $8,682,500 Due Date: 11/15/23 More Information
NIH: Analyzing Early Events in TB and TB/HIV Infection for Interventional Targets Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - The purpose of this program is to support mechanistic studies of the early stage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, with and without HIV, to identify interventional targets for vaccine and host-directed therapies. Amount: $5,033,333 Due Date: 10/11/23 More Information
NIH: Collaborative Opportunities for Multidisciplinary, Bold, and Innovative Neuroscience (COMBINE) Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - Aims to integrate the efforts of three to six PDs/PIs to pursue a bold, impactful, and challenging goal with defined 5-year outcomes within the scope of this program and the NINDS mission. Amount: $11,325,000 Due Date: 10/20/23 More Information
Standardizing sponsored project reporting utilizing Collaborator Contribution Monday, May 15, 2023 - Following the recommendations made by multi-year working groups comprising college, school and other unit representatives, this summer the University of Georgia will move from Academic Credit to Collaborator Contribution as a new method for designating investigator contributions to sponsored projects. The change will become effective July 1.
NIH: NINDS Sustainable Transformation of Institutional Research Rigor Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Seeks proposals for programs that enhance research rigor and transparency practices within academic and research institutions to promote a culture of high-quality neuroscience research. Amount: $3,624,000 Due Date: 10/17/23 More Information
NIH: Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Supports the work of the research projects funded under the Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH) initiative described in the companion announcement RFA-MH-23-105. Amount: $18,875,000 Due Date: 6/14/23 More Information
NSF: Centers for Chemical Innovation Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - Supports research centers focused on major, long-term fundamental chemical research challenges. CCIs that address these challenges will produce transformative research, lead to innovation, and attract broad scientific and public interest. Amount: $4,000,000 Due Date: 8/10/23 (preliminary proposal); 10/18/23 (full proposal) More Information
Partner with Innovation Gateway to maximize research impact Saturday, April 15, 2023 - Looking for ways to increase the impact of your research or to more directly connect it with community? Consider partnering with UGA’s Cooperative Extension! As both a land- and sea-grant institution, UGA is charged with serving the needs of Georgia and its citizens, and boasts one of the most robust Extension programs in the nation, with dedicated agents providing consultation and programming in every one of Georgia’s 159 counties. Extension’s stated purpose is “to translate the science of everyday living for farmers, families and communities to foster a healthy and prosperous Georgia.”
NSF: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 Wednesday, April 5, 2023 - Seeks to implement unique and compelling Research Infrastructure projects that may include any combination of equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly used large-scale data sets, and commissioning and/or personnel. Amount: $20,000,000 – $99,999,999 Due Date: 5/15/23 (LOI); 6/20/23 (Preliminary Proposal); 12/18/23 (full proposal) More Information
NSF: Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - Brings together communities that leverage existing data to catalyze discoveries through synthesis, analysis, and integrative training focusing on organisms as integrated units of biological organization i.e., why they are structured as they are and function as they do. Amount: $20,000,000 Due Date: 1/12/24 (preliminary proposal), 7/15/24 (full proposal) More Information
NEH: Digital Projects for the Public Wednesday, March 22, 2023 - This program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. Amount: $400,000 Due Date: 6/14/23 More Information
Partnering with Cooperative Extension for a healthy, prosperous Georgia Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - Looking for ways to increase the impact of your research or to more directly connect it with community? Consider partnering with UGA’s Cooperative Extension! As both a land- and sea-grant institution, UGA is charged with serving the needs of Georgia and its citizens, and boasts one of the most robust Extension programs in the nation, with dedicated agents providing consultation and programming in every one of Georgia’s 159 counties. Extension’s stated purpose is “to translate the science of everyday living for farmers, families and communities to foster a healthy and prosperous Georgia.”
NIH: Exploratory Grants for Climate Change and Health Research Center Development Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - Solicits P20 planning grant applications to sustain a program of fundamental and applied research that examines the impacts of climate change on health and to develop action-oriented solutions to protect the health of individuals, communities, and nations from the hazards posed by climate change. Amount: $3,850,500 Due Date: 11/7/23 More information
Supporting our postdocs and other important researcher communities – building a diverse research community Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - Postdoctoral researchers are vital members of laboratories and other research spaces, not just here at UGA but in research universities around the country. I began my full-time research career as a postdoctoral fellow at a medical center, and the position provided a vital bridge between the completion of a Ph.D. and the obtainment of a tenure-track faculty position.
Action needed: Principal Investigators, Laboratory Supervisors to update emergency contact information in Chematix Monday, January 23, 2023 - After several recent incidents that have required police or fire assistance in the research labs after hours or on weekends, the Office of Research Integrity & Safety is requiring all principal investigators and laboratory supervisors to register or update their primary and alternate emergency contacts in the Chematix system. This information will only be made […]
FY 2024 Faculty Seed Grants in the Sciences and Engineering Thursday, January 19, 2023 - The Office of Research announces the FY 2024 cycle for the Faculty Seed Grants in the Sciences and Engineering. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 11:59 pm.
Celebrating and growing sponsored research funding – it’s all about relationships Sunday, January 15, 2023 - There are many measures of a healthy research enterprise, one of which is the number of dollars invested, i.e. research expenditures, in research and development, including research spaces, researcher time, and grant dollars spent. Indeed, we just announced an exciting landmark—for the first time in UGA history that number surpassed the half billion mark, $545.6 million to be exact.
Celebrating humanities & arts Thursday, December 15, 2022 - December 2022 Last month at UGA, we celebrated the importance of artistic expression in all forms through our Spotlight on the Arts. That monthlong event, drawing participation from across campus and involving the efforts of students, faculty, staff and alumni, reminds us each fall that some ideas and passions can only be adequately communicated through art. […]
Toward a more secure future for federally funded research Monday, November 21, 2022 - November 2022 At UGA, we have been strategically laying the groundwork to become much more active in research collaborations with the Department of Defense and other U.S. “mission” agencies. Mission agencies are federal agencies that support research geared toward goals such as securing national defense, addressing national energy challenges, and ensuring a robust transportation system. […]