Important Updates

Webinar for Junior Investigators Writing NIH Grants

This webinar, hosted by the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), will address best practices for effective grantsmanship, approaches for competitive applications, common mistakes made by junior investigators and tips to increase chances for success. The focus will be on NIH’s research grants, especially the common R01 funding mechanism.
Date: Tuesday, March 16
Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm

DOE Announces $100M for Transformative Clean Energy Solutions

In support of the Biden Administration’s climate innovation agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $100 million in funding for transformative clean energy technology research and development via its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) OPEN 2021 funding opportunity. The first of billions of dollars of DOE R&D opportunities to be announced this year, this funding will help identify cutting-edge, disruptive clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis.

NSF Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)

Synopsis. Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports.

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

Synopsis. The national research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem is essential to computational- and data-intensive research across all of 21st-century science and engineering (S&E), driven by rapid advances in a wide range of technologies; increasing volumes of highly heterogeneous data; and escalating demand by the research community. Research CI is a key catalyst for discovery and innovation and plays a critical role in ensuring US leadership in S&E, economic competitiveness, and national security, consistent with NSF's mission.

NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity

Synopsis.

The Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity seeks to recognize those institutions whose biomedical and behavioral science departments, centers, or divisions have achieved sustained improvement in gender diversity.