June 2023

Research Insights

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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Now (and all the time) is the perfect time to assess lab safety

Have you wondered what you would do if a dangerous spill or injury happened in your lab? The immediate response, after ensuring the safety of those working in your lab and addressing the unexpected event, is to consider why it occurred and how to prevent a future similar occurrence. Perhaps there was even a lapse in compliance with federal or state regulations, which can seem ever-changing and hard to understand.

Grant Opportunities

NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 & 2 for 2023 Cohort 

Amount: $750,000 

Deadline: July 11 

Addresses national-scale societal challenges through use-inspired convergence research using human-centered design, user discovery, team science and integration of multidisciplinary research to transition basic research and discovery into practice. 

NSF: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences 

Amount: Varies 

Deadline: Aug. 18 

Supports scientific research that addresses fundamental scientific and societal issues by improving decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. 

NSF: Economics 

Amount: Varies 

Deadline: Aug. 18 

Aims to improve understanding of the U.S. economy and the world system of which it is a part by strengthening empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as methods for research on economic behavior. 

NIH: Accelerating Behavioral and Social Science through Ontology Development and Use: Research Network Projects 

Amount: $3,775,000 

Deadline: Oct. 3 

Supports projects focused on new ontologies for behavioral or social science research. 

Humanities & Arts Opportunities

NEH Media Projects 

Amount: Up to $1,000,000 

Deadline: Aug. 9 

The National Endowment for the Humanities Media Projects program supports the development, production and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films and documentary film series that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. 

Foundation Opportunities

Beckman Young Investigator Program 

Amount: $600,000 over four years 

Deadline: Aug. 1 

Funds promising young scientists who have not yet received a major award from another organization. Proposed projects should be innovative, high-risk and show promise for contributing to chemistry and the life sciences.

Limited Submissions

NSF: Cyberinfrastructure Technology Acceleration Pathway (CITAP) 

Amount: $10,000,000 

Deadline: July 14 

Seeks proposals that design, test and operate a pathway service within the ACCESS program that manages and accelerates translation of promising research cyberinfrastructure (CI) software to production-quality services across the NSF advanced CI ecosystem. 

NIH: Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1 – Clinical Trial Optional) 

Amount: $5,285,000 - $11,325,000 

Deadline: July 26 

Designed to support highly integrated research teams of three to six program directors/principal investigators to address research questions within the mission of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 

Urban and Innovative Agriculture Community-Based Organization Fund 

Funder: USDA 

Amount: $1,500,000 

PI: Michelle Elliott, Archway Partnership 

Proactive Resilience Plan (PReP): An Integrated Framework Applied to Critical Economic Sectors 

Funder: Qatar Foundation via Texas A&M 

Amount: $531,161 

PI: Bjorn Birgisson, College of Engineering 

Evaluating and Preserving Induced Genetic Variation in Cultivated Peanut 

Funder: USDA NIFA 

Amount: $598,691 

PI: Peggy Ozias-Akins, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences 

Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment with USDA 

Funder: USDA 

Amount: $389,446 

PI: Caree Cotwright, College of Family & Consumer Sciences 

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Research Announcements

Bringing regenerative medicine to Georgians 

The Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center, a collaboration between UGA, Emory University and Georgia Tech, through its collaborative grant program is accepting seed grant proposals intended to stimulate new, collaborative research in regenerative medicine. The collaborative grant team must have a minimum of two investigators and must have an equal partnership of faculty from two of the participating institutions. Submission deadline is July 2. 

Image Puzzler

Joro spiders have become a fall fixture of northeast Georgia, but the invasive species might be on its way to habitating the entire Eastern Seaboard. Read full story here. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski )

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