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. 

UM Call for Internal Pre-proposals

NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

Download a (prettier) PDF of this announcement here: http://www.research.olemiss.edu/sites/default/files/ORSP-Announce-NSF-PIRE-2016for17-v3.pdf. 

Call for UM Pre-Proposals

United States-India Educational Foundation:

Indo-U.S. 21^st Century Knowledge Initiative

http://www.usief.org.in/Institutional-Collaboration/Obama-Singh-21st-Century-Knowledge-Initiative-Awards.aspx

Purpose: to strengthen collaboration and build partnerships between American and Indian institutions of higher education.

The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate training that ensure that graduate students develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.

White papers due 1/19 for this limited submission opportunity. See attached announcement.