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| | Monthly Campus Updates from the Syracuse University Office of Research | | | | | |
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| Lender Center for Social Justice Opportunities The Lender Center for Social Justice, with funding from the MetLife Foundation and in collaboration with faculty in the Social Differences, Social Justice Research Cluster, is offering grants for new or continuing projects to full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members with compelling projects that address the racial wealth gap in the United States. A Q&A session will be held on March 27.
Deadline: April 3 Applications are now being accepted for the position of 2023-25 Lender Center for Social Justice Faculty Fellow. The fellowship supports a two-year research project that examines contemporary social issues and develops innovative approaches to address them.
Deadline: April 10 | | | | | |
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| Central New York (CNY) Humanities Corridor Call for Proposals 
The CNY Humanities Corridor welcomes proposals by new and existing Working Groups led by faculty and academic staff at Syracuse University and the 10 other Corridor universities and colleges. More information is found in the call for proposals.
Deadline: March 27 | | | | | |
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| NSF Requirement: Plan for Safe and Inclusive Working Environment for Off-Campus Research | | | | National Science Foundation (NSF) grant applicants are now required to certify that the university has a plan in place for a safe and inclusive work environment. The Office of Sponsored Programs has provided more information and a plan template [.docx] for PIs who are required to develop such a plan. | | | | | |
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| Limited Submission Opportunities The following Limited Submission Opportunities were announced over the past month and are currently open. Competitions marked as “Letter of Intent” only require a short form; please submit an application as soon as you know you are interested rather than waiting for the deadline. A full explanation of the process may be found on the Office of Research website. NEW! 2023 William T. Grant Scholars Program – Pre-Proposal
Indication of Interest Due Date: March 6
Number of Internal Nominees: 1 per school or college
This program supports career development for promising early-career researchers seeking to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. NEW! 2023 NIH Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) (T34) – Letter of Intent
Internal Proposal Due Date: March 20
Number of Internal Nominees: 1
This National Institutes of Health (NIH) program is to develop a diverse pool of undergraduates who complete their baccalaureate degree, and transition into and complete biomedical, research-focused higher degree programs. NEW! 2023 NIH Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25) – Letter of Intent
Internal Proposal Due Date: March 20
Number of Internal Nominees: 1
The overarching goal of this program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. This opportunity will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on courses for skills development. NEW! 2023 NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART) – Letter of Intent
Internal Proposal Due Date: March 20
Number of Internal Nominees: 1
The ART program aims to support projects that will increase the role of U.S. institutions of higher education in their region’s innovation ecosystems through building their capacity and strengthening their infrastructure for translational research and supporting translational research training for graduate students and postdocs. | | | | | |
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| Funding Opportunities The Office of Research has updated its Sponsored Funding Opportunities webpage with federal, state and foundation funding opportunities relevant to campus in a variety of topic areas. Below are the highlighted opportunities: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program
Deadline: varies by topic area
The program supports grants in six priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture: plant health and production and plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food safety, nutrition and health; bioenergy, natural resources and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agriculture economics and rural communities. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships
Deadline: April 12
NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences or both. Department of Defense (DOD) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
White Paper Deadline: May 19
The MURI program supports basic research in science and engineering at U.S. universities. Example topics for this year include: Interventions in Large and Complex Networks; Theory and Algorithms for Learning and Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems; and Synchronization in Natural and Engineered Systems. Please see the announcement for a description of all 25 topic areas. | | | | | |
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| Sponsored Funding Awards The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) provides monthly updates on all proposals submitted through OSP and awarded to the Syracuse University community. You may access OSP Highlights on answers.syr.edu (NetID and password required). | | | | | |
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| Funder Updates | | | | National Science Foundation Updates to NSF-Required Forms
NSF has recently made enhancements to the biographical sketch and current and pending (other) support fillable PDF formats. The updated formats were provided in January 2023, are consistent with the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG), and are available on the NSF biographical sketch and current and pending (other) support websites. | | | | | |
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| | | | Call for Abstracts: Military Health System Research Symposium The Office of Government Relations and the Office of Research recently hosted an information session about the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS). MHSRS is the best location to learn about DOD medical research priorities and to network with DOD program officers. For faculty whose MHSRS abstracts are accepted, the Office of Research is able to provide limited travel funds to attend the symposium this year. The abstract deadline has been extended to March 3. | | | | | |
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| Campus Research Approvals Visiting Scholars Requests: Visiting scholars are those who are coming to the Syracuse University campus for the purpose of long-term academic research and scholarship, and who will remain on campus for longer than one week. | | | | | |
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| Office of Research Calendar | | | | Learn about what is going on in the Office of Research this month. | | | | | |
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