The Mississippi Research Consortium has issued a call for pre-proposals in antcipation next spring's anticipated NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1 Call for Proposals, for projects to begin late summer 2018. University of Mississippi-led FINAL pre-proposals, including those originating from the Medical Center campus in Jackson, should be submitted NLT November 18 to UM VCRSP Josh Gladden via the UM InfoReady Review Portal at https://olemiss.infoready4.com/.  Acceptable UM/UMMC reproposals will be submitted by Dr.

Broad call for Scientifically Valid Research and Evidence-Based Practice projects to develop and test strategies for enhancing resilience. Think Broadly and Propose Innovative Approaches

See http://tinyurl.com/NASGRP5OCT2016 or http://www.nas.edu/gulf/grants/.

LOI and Proposal instructions: http://www.nas.edu/gulf/grants/rwjf/.

This 2^nd year pilot program is designed to celebrate and support humanities faculty who embrace public engagement as part of the scholarly vocation. These fellowships aim to identify professors with a demonstrated commitment to using their intellectual expertise to reach wider audiences and to fund ambitious projects designed to have direct and significant impact on a specific public outside the academy.

NEH has announced the 2016 competition for Summer Stipends for the summer of 2017. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project.

Program:  Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) sponsors the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards to enrich the research and professional growth of junior faculty and catalyze competitiveness for other funding opportunities. Each award is $5,000 for one year (June 1 to May 31) and requires an institutional match of $5,000 (to provided by ORSP). UM internal due date for applications is Wednesday, December 16, 2015, at 11:00 am. Late applications will not be considered.

Solicitation of UM Pre-Proposals
for NSF’s EPSCoR Track-2-FEC 2016 Funding Opportunity for Research in
Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Systems or
Understanding the Brain

E-mail pre-proposals to Jason Hale (jghale@olemiss.edu) by 5 p.m. December 9^th.

NSF has released a new program soliciation on the topic: Genomes to Phenomes.

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2017/nsf17503/nsf17503.pdf

This is a limited submission opportunity for which the University of Mississippi can submit only three proposals. As such, there will be an internal competition to determine how to fill those three slots. Please watch UMToday for details about this internal competition, which may be announced as early November 8, 2016.

NSF MRI seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments.

ORSP will conduct a review process to select up to three pre-proposals for advancement into full proposals to NSF for this limited funding opportunity. Pre-proposals are due to ORSP on November 20, 2015.

For a PDF version of this announcement, click: http://www.research.olemiss.edu/sites/default/files/ORSP-Announce-NSF-MRI-2016-v5.pdf.