Research Development Grant Writing News

• Topics of Interest URLs
• January 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Humanities Perspectives on AI: NEH Emerging Funding Opportunities and a List of
  Private Opportunities
• Writing a Proposal’s Stakeholder Engagement Section
• FY24 Navy STEM and Workforce Program
• The Future of STEM Education at NSF
• A Suggested Timeline for Producing Your NSF CAREER Proposal
• If You Name It, Explain It
• Don’t Sell the Funding Solicitation Short
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• February 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News – We list funding opportunities for scholars in the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
• Incremental Research is the “Kiss of Death” at NSF –  A common negative review comment in NSF reviews is that the research is “incremental.” We discuss what that term means and how to avoid it.
• Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks – We discuss the NSF Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks solicitation and how it illustrates the concept of convergent research.
• Why Faculty Should Attend Funder Conferences and Workshops – NSF recently announced its Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference, and NIH is tentatively planning its Grants Conference for late 2024. We discuss why PIs should attend these types of conferences and program-specific workshops.
• What Does a Successful NSF Proposal Look Like? – When an NSF solicitation doesn’t provide detailed instructions, NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide provides guidelines for preparing your NSF proposal. We discuss the PAPPG’s  instructions.
• Avoiding A Common Reviewer Complaint: Descriptive Research – A common complaint in reviews is that the project is descriptive. We discuss what that term means and how to avoid it (reprinted from March 2021 issue). 

• Topics of Interest URLs
• March 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Summary of Changes to the PAPPG NSF 24-1
• Division of Environmental Biology Virtual Office Hour
• NSF Ideas Labs: How They Work and Why They Are a Great Opportunity for Faculty
• Artificial Intelligence in Water Conservation
• Cultivating Grantsmanship Among Humanities and Social Science Graduate Students
• Strategic Uses of the Funding Solicitation
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• April 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Funding Sources
• NSF Innovative Use of Scientific Collections
• FY2025 NSF Budget: Exploring New Funding Directions
• Figuring Out What You Want to Do for Your NSF CAREER Education Component
• Summary of Changes: NIFA FY 2025 Budget Request
• What Is the Intellectual Significance of Your Proposed Humanities Project?
• Tracking Allocations in Research Agency Budgets
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• April 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• CHIPS and Science Act in FY2025 Budget Requests
• NIH Common Fund 2025 Budget Request
• Understanding Agency-Required Diversity Plans (NIH PEDP and DOE PIER)
• EPAs FY 2025 Research Budget Priorities
• Tips for Winning an NEH Individual Fellowship
• You Got Funding! Now Think About Supplements
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

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• June 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Funding Profile: Homeland Security Office of University Programs in Sci. & Tech.
• New Faculty Guide to Finding NSF Funding
• Heads up! NSF’s New Graduate Student Mentoring Plan Requirement
• Unsolicited Proposals to Federal Agencies
• Win Your Grant on Page 1
• To Revise, Re-Write, or Begin Anew?
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

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• July 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News • NEH’s Humanities Connections Projects: A Funding Opportunity for Curricular Innovation at Two- and Four-Year Colleges
• Funding Strategies: National Climate Resilience Framework by Federal Agency • An Overview of ED’s FIPSE Program
• Last-Minute NSF CAREER Proposal Checklist 2024
• Preview of FY 2025 House Research Spending Bills
• Does an NSF MRI Fit Your Situation?
• Editing the Proposal Introduction: the What, Why, How and So-What of a Preliminary Review
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• August 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Writing for NIH’s New Review Criteria
• Supplemental Funding Requests to NSF
• You’ve Submitted Your CAREER Proposal: What Now?
• Special Considerations When You’re Proposing to Address a Well-Known
• Forecasted Funding & Notice of Intent Opportunities
• Tensed about Tenses
• Understanding the Role of Your PO
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• September 2024 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Developing Applications to EPA Under New Guidelines
• NSF-USDA-NIFA Programmatic Funding Alignments
• Overview of Funding by Department of Energy
• NSF TIP Directorate’s New Roadmap
• Avoid the Generic Introduction
• Narrative Silos Are Like Weeds
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• January 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Recent Funding and Advocacy News in the Humanities and Arts
• Give a Wide Berth to Potential Plagiarism
• Advice and Resources for Your NSF MRI Proposal
• Seven Newly Posted DOE/SC Workforce FOAs
• The First Response to a BAA Is Often a White Paper
• Too Much “Why” and Not Enough “How”
• Faculty Writing Groups in the Humanities
• Funding Rates: Actual and Real
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• February 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Who Is Winning Humanities Funding and Why?
• What Exactly Are Societal Challenges?
• NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Webinar Report
• The Context and Significance of Your Research
• Changes to AFRI Foundational Program 2023
• Too Much To Say? Strategies to Meet the Page Limit
• Cultivating Grantsmanship among Graduate Students
• The Role of Stakeholders in a Competitive Proposal
• NIH Steps: Unsolicited, Investigator-Initiated Research
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URL’s
• March 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• AFRI Foundational Review Criteria & Narrative Format
• NSF Office Hours and the PRoSPCT Tool
• Grants: Native American Graves Repatriation Act
• Budget of the US Government FY23/Agency Allocations
• Basic Research: The Trial-and-Error Trap
• How the Department of Energy Reviews Your Proposal
• Your Research’s Fit in Your Discipline’s State of the Art
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• April 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• NEH Infrastructure/Capacity-Building Challenge Grants
• Editing the Research Narrative for Importance
• U.S. Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing: The White House Vision for a Whole-of-Government Approach
• Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
• CDMRP Program Funding Opportunities
• Fully Respond to the ARPA-(H)eilmeier Questions
• How a Good Website Can Help Faculty Win Grants
• Mission Agency Common Denominators
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• May 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Understanding Forensic Sciences Funding
• Consider Joining the NSF Rotator Program
• Tips for Pursuing Funding from Industry
• AFRI Sustainable Agricultural SYSTEMS RFA
• Make Your Case for Value-Added Benefits
• Welcoming New Faculty
• Implicit Requirements
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• January 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Recent Funding and Advocacy News in the Humanities and Arts
• Give a Wide Berth to Potential Plagiarism
• Advice and Resources for Your NSF MRI Proposal
• Seven Newly Posted DOE/SC Workforce FOAs
• The First Response to a BAA Is Often a White Paper
• Too Much “Why” and Not Enough “How”
• Faculty Writing Groups in the Humanities
• Funding Rates: Actual and Real
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• July 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Support Opportunities for Post-Docs & Junior Faculty
• An Overview: U.S. Department of Justice Grants
• Engineering Research Initiation: What Is It, For Who?
• Last-Minute NSF CAREER Proposal Checklist
• NSF Dear Colleague Letters & Funding Mechanisms
• Narrative Space Is Limited – Use It Wisely
• The Power of Faculty Writing Groups for Reviewing Proposals and Overall Writing Improvement
• Strategies for Proposal Resubmissions
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• August 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Selected List of Mid-career Funding Opportunities in Humanities and HRSS
• Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase II
• National Institute of Justice: What it is, does, and funds
• You’ve Submitted Your CAREER Proposal: What Now?
• Using Chat GPT When Writing Proposals: What It Can and Can’t Do
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Basic Grant Writing Training Presentation
• Writing the 1.5-Page Practice Proposal
• It’s Not Easy to Disinvite a Team Member
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency Research News
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• September 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now Accepting Proposals,
  November 15 Deadline
• Biotechnology at USDA/NIFA in FY2024 Budget
• Overview: Bioenergy Technologies Office at DOE
• Understanding NSF For NIH PIs
• Multi-Agency R&D Priorities for the FY 2025 Budget
• Proposal Writing in the Humanities
• Significance of Your Proposed Humanities Project?
• What Is Your Great Idea and Why Is It Important?
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• Agency Reports, Workshops & Research Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• October 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Conservation Innovation Grants, a Niche Funding Program by USDA
• Overview: Defense Sciences Office 2024 BAA
• Checking in With ARPA-H
• NSF’s Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
• Editing the Proposal Introduction: What, Why, & How
• Don’t Let Your Proposal Wear a Disguise on Halloween
• How a Good Website Can Help Faculty Win Grants
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• November 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• A New NEH Initiative: “Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence”
• DOE/SC Biological and Environmental Research
• The Value of Reading Abstracts of Funded Projects
• Pursuing Funding From Private Foundations
• National Academies Report on AI
• Developing a Strategic Plan for Funding Your Research
• Developing Your Research Agenda
• Developing Your Education Agenda
• Research Grant Writing Web Resources
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• New Funding Opportunities

• Topics of Interest URLs
• December 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News
• Faculty Guide to Writing Research Grants: Strategies for Funding Success
• NIH on Research Integrity
• Update: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
• Overview of NSF GEO’s Funding Opportunities to Support the “Build a Resilient
  Planet” Initiative
• Technology for Plagiarism Detection at NSF
• The Communications Component of the Management Plan
• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps
• Educational & Social Sciences Web Resources
• New Funding Opportunities

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