A monthly publication of the UGA Office of Research with the latest funding opportunities and announcements in support of our research community. |
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From the VPR
- Grant Opportunities
- Humanities & Arts Opportunities
- Foundation Opportunities
- Limited Submissions
- Recent Notable Awards
- Sign up for Funding Alerts
- External Honors & Awards
- Team Science
- Research Announcements
- Feature Events
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| New academic year resolution: Creating a culture of awareness and mental wellness
Welcome back! After what I sincerely hope was a restorative and productive summer for all of you, it’s time again to welcome new students and researchers to campus, to enjoy meeting a new cohort of arriving faculty, and to settle into the academic year. |
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USDA: National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program Fiscal Year 2024 Amount: $500,000
Deadline: Oct. 20 Funds projects that will help prevent the introduction and spread of foreign and emerging animal diseases that threaten U.S. agriculture.
NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
Amount: Medal and $1,000,000 for research or study
Deadline: Sept. 15
Honoring early career scientists and engineers in the biological sciences, computer and information science and engineering, engineering, geosciences, mathematical and physical sciences, social, behavioral and economic sciences, and in STEM education research.
NIH: Innovative Research in Cancer Nanotechnology (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) Amount: $3,586,250
Deadline: Nov. 3 Funds projects using nanotechnology to address major barriers in cancer biology and/or oncology and expand understanding of nanomaterial and/or nano-device interactions with biological systems. NSF: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) Amount: $500,000 - $1,800,000 Deadline: Nov. 7 Supports projects that advance scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions within and among the environmental and human components of such a system. NSF: Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Amount: Unspecified Deadline: Varies
Intended to capitalize on opportunities for major breakthroughs through new computational and data-analysis approaches. Supports projects that harness computation and data to advance knowledge and accelerate discovery beyond the goals of participating individual programs.
NSF: Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics Amount: Unspecified
Deadline: None Intended to advance fundamental research on rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions, systems engineering and molecular thermodynamics as they relate to the design and optimization of chemical reactors and the production of specialized materials. |
Humanities & Arts Opportunities |
Willson Center Opportunities
Amount: Varies Deadline: Sept. 8 and Sept. 30
The Willson Center offers multiple grants, awards and fellowships for the academic year. Applications for the Willson Center Graduate Research Award and Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program are due Sept. 8. Applications for the Willson Center Fellowship are due Sept. 30. Guggenheim Fellowships Amount: Varies
Deadline: Mid-September Offered to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation of any art form. Intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or creative ability in the arts. Society for the Humanities at Cornell University Amount: $60,000 Deadline: Sept. 20
Invites applications for residential fellowships from scholars and artists whose projects reflect on the theme of “silence.” Up to six fellows will be appointed. Fellowships are held for one year (August through July). American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships Amount: Up to $60,000
Deadline: Sept. 28 Offers a maximum award of $60,000 for six to 12 months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, and completed by Dec. 31, 2025. ACLS invites proposals from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. |
John Z. Duling Grant Program
Amount: $25,000 Deadline: Sept. 15
Provides startup or seed funding to support innovative research and technology transfer projects with potential to benefit the everyday work of arborists. Grants may be used to support exploratory work. |
Longitudinal assessment of post-concussion driving in young adults (LAPDYA) Funder: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $2,385,761 PI: Julianne Schmidt, Mary Frances Early College of Education
Bacterial partners as a mode of fungal resistance to antimicrobial compounds Funder: National Institutes of Health
Amount: $1,842,220 PI: Kurt Dahlstrom, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Microbiology
Network for Engineering with Nature (NEWN) Funder: Walton Family Foundation
Amount: $1,394,387 PI: Clifton Woodson, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Marine Sciences
Collaborative Research: PGR: The epigenomic selfing syndrome: revealing the impact of breeding system on epigenomes Funder: National Science Foundation Amount: $1,051,557 PI: Andrea Sweigart, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Genetics
PlantSynBio: Construction of a plant chassis as a platform for biological discoveries and innovations Funder: National Science Foundation Amount: $999,995 PI: Robin Buell, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
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| Five UGA faculty receive NSF CAREER awards
Five University of Georgia faculty were recognized in 2023 by the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which rewards faculty who have the potential to serve as leaders in research and education. |
Food science student wins Testing for Life Award
Zhihan Xian’s innovative research into new methods of food-origin tracing has been named this year’s winner of the Testing for Life Student Award by AOAC International, a nonprofit association established in 1884 to set standards to ensure global food safety. |
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The Office of Research maintains a list of external honors and awards to encourage faculty applications. |
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Integrative Precision Agriculture Pre-Seed Grant Program
The Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture (IIPA) Pre-Seed Program provides early-stage developmental funding ($5,000/team) to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics in the broad area of integrative precision agriculture. Applications are accepted via InfoReady until Sept.13.
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Ehrlich, Morkos selected as 2023-24 OoR Faculty Fellows
Faculty members Katie Ehrlich and Beshoy Morkos have been named as the Office of Research (OoR) Faculty Fellows for 2023-24, and the pair will spend this year getting an up-close view at research administration at UGA. The program, piloted last year to train potential future leaders, allows for the selection of two full-time faculty who will be embedded within the OoR senior leadership team.
URAR welcomes new clinical assistant professor in Laboratory Medicine
The University Research Animal Resources team is excited to welcome Gianni Campellone as the new clinical assistant professor in the Laboratory Animal Medicine program.
CAES offers new undergraduate major in regenerative bioscience
The College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences is offering a new regenerative bioscience major that offers students the opportunity to meet industry insiders and conduct hands-on research through an immersive laboratory experience at the Regenerative Bioscience Center. For more information, visit this website created just for the new major.
Access to materials during McBay Science Library renovation
During a renovation of UGA’s McBay Science Library, the University community can still access scholarly resources in a timely manner, either through digital access or print retrieval. The project affects print material in natural history, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, human anatomy, physiology, microbiology, medicine, pathology, pharmacology, pharmacy, agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine. Faculty, students and staff may submit a request for print-only materials through the online catalog, and the item will be delivered to the Libraries location of the requestor’s choice, including the McBay Library.
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UGA researchers are working hard to bring back Gerogia’s imperiled oyster industry. Baby oysters, seen above, are known as spat and feel like grains of sand in your hand. Read the full story. (Photo by Peter Frey) |
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