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| Highlights from this Newsletter: - 2025 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) Cohort Program
- Spring 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship (and Beyond) Proposal Writing Circle
- Book Proposal Shortcut with Laura Portwood-Stacer
- Spring Semester Collaboration Sessions
- The Role of Professional Societies in Advocating for Your Research Priorities
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| Upcoming Research Programs 2025 NSF CAREER Cohort Program
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 10
Apply now to the 2025 NSF CAREER Cohort Program. This program is designed to help first-time applicants plan, draft and complete their proposal in time for the 2025 submission deadline. Faculty who participate in the program will have access to: - dedicated coaching, strategic guidance and writing support from Office of Research Development staff;
- a timeline with milestones and regular check-ins to help you stay on track;
- CAREER-specific templates, sample proposals and planning documents;
- a pre-submission review of your proposal draft by an external expert in your field.
Spring 2025 NEH Fellowship (and Beyond) Proposal Writing Circle
Deadline: Monday, Jan. 13
Sign up now for the Spring 2025 NEH Fellowship writing circle. Led by a successful fellowship awardee, this writing circle is designed to support faculty of all academic ranks planning to submit proposals to this year’s NEH Fellowship or Summer Stipend programs. Faculty interested in comparable fellowship programs, such as American Council of Learned Societies or National Humanities Center, are invited to participate. Sessions will meet via Zoom, weekly or bi-weekly, through early April. Writing circle members will be asked to: - attend all meetings;
- share a full project proposal with the group at least once;
- provide feedback on colleagues’ drafts, including serving as lead discussant at least once.
Book Proposal Shortcut with Laura Portwood-Stacer
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 31
Apply now to the Book Proposal Shortcut led by Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works, author of The Book Proposal Book. Full-time scholars with book projects in the pipeline from any discipline/field are invited to apply, and will gain access to a structured curriculum to help you stay on track as you identify target presses, draft your book proposal and make a submission plan. This is a self-paced, online course designed so that you work independently and at your own pace. Spring Semester Collaboration Sessions
The Office of Research will be hosting collaboration sessions with flash talks on specific research topics in the spring semester. Our first research topic of cross-university collaboration sessions will be artificial intelligence (AI). If you are conducting research in this field and would like to explore collaborations to pursue sponsored funding opportunities, please respond to our initial survey. This collaboration session will not address AI and its role in teaching. | | | | | |
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| The Role of Professional Societies in Advocating for Your Research Priorities Professional societies play a pivotal role in advocating for research and scholarship by harnessing their collective expertise and influence. These coordinated efforts are one of the most impactful ways of advocating to Congress for funding and support. Faculty members can actively participate in this process by joining their professional societies and supporting students and postdocs’ memberships. Faculty who engage in professional societies can help amplify the collective voice of their community and demonstrate widespread support for sustained investment in research. Many professional societies engage their members in advocacy for their field’s priorities with Congress. If you participate in advocacy through your society, please inform the University Government Relations Team and follow the Provost’s Guidelines for Advocacy. | | | | | |
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| Internal Funding Programs Team Building for Large, Collaborative Grants
These awards, intended for researchers with a track record of securing sponsored funding, aim to facilitate the development of collaborative research teams and support planning activities that enable the submission of a competitive research proposal to an external sponsor.
Deadline: Rolling Faculty Bridge Funding Program
The purpose of this program is to allow a minimal level of activity while a proven principal investigator awaits expected federal funding, e.g., to prevent loss of key postdoctoral researchers, research faculty/staff or senior graduate students or loss of research materials in the interim period.
Deadline: Rolling | | | | | |
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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: NIH Modules for Enhancing Biomedical Research Workforce Training
The 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. Learn more about the topic areas for 2025.
Deadline: Tuesday, Jan. 28 NEH Institutes for Higher Education Faculty
This notice solicits applications for the Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and Institutes for K-12 Educators programs. Institutes are residential, virtual and combined format professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 12 NSF Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
This program aims to build trust in global cyber ecosystems. Achieving this trust in cyberspace requires understanding of the vulnerabilities in a system that could be exploited and how they can be addressed, the social and technical dimensions of trust in cyber systems, and educational efforts to increase public awareness of risks in cyberspace.
Deadline: Monday, Sept. 29, 2025 | | | | | |
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| Sponsor Updates 
Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Connect Albany Regional Pop-up Virtual Replay
If you missed last month’s DARPAConnect Pop-up, recordings and access slides can be found in the event archive. You will need to login or create an account to access the materials. 
NSF Changes to research.gov Sign-In
Effective Oct. 27, NSF implemented multifactor authentication for research.gov sign-in. The most direct way to sign in is to select the option “Organization Credentials” and then select “Syracuse University” from the drop-down list. Learn more. 
Upcoming Changes to the Peer Review Framework
NIH is implementing a simplified framework for the peer review of the majority of competing research project grant applications, beginning with submissions due Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. NIH will continue to update its website with guidance for applicants on the new framework. Learn more about this new process. | | | | | |
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