Upcoming Faculty Research Funding Opportunities

Searching for research funding can be overwhelming – but the Office of Research and Grants Administration (ORGA) is here to take the stress out of the process so that College of Charleston faculty are able to concentrate on their research at hand. As the central source of information on major government agencies, foundations and corporations that impact research and scholarship, ORGA compiles lists of funding opportunities and deadlines in its monthly newsletter, #GETFUNDEDCOFC.

Below is a sneak peek of some of the upcoming funding opportunities that CofC faculty won’t want to miss!

National Endowment for the Arts – Grants for Arts Projects
Application Deadlines: Feb. 10 and July 7, 2022
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Through project-based funding, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Projects program will support public engagement with and access to various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. The program funds arts projects in the following disciplines: artist communities, arts education, dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literary arts, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting and multidisciplinary arts, theater and visual arts. A project may consist of one or more specific events, activities or short- or long-term programs; it may be a new initiative or part of an organization’s regular activities. Please note that only one proposal may be submitted by the Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, and one proposal from the rest of the College of Charleston.

National Endowment for the Humanities – Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and Institutes for K-12 Educators
Application Deadline: Feb. 22, 2022
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the Institutes for Higher Education Faculty program and the Institutes for K-12 Educators. NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene a diverse group of faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities, enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching, and encourage high-quality intellectual study. The solicitation is open to new and previously funded NEH projects.

National Science Foundation – Organismal Response to Climate Change
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC) grant supports proposals that build on NSF’s investment in growing convergence research by developing integrative, cross-disciplinary approaches examining the organismal mechanisms that underlie adaptive and maladaptive responses to environmental factors associated with climate change, how these responses affect fitness in changing and/or novel climates and the genetic and evolutionary processes through which these traits originate, persist and are transmitted across generations. NSF encourages creative approaches to translate results of these investigations to better predict and manage effects of climate change on organisms across spatial and temporal scales and biological hierarchies.

South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence – Bioinformatics Pilot Project Program
Letter of Intent Deadline: March 4, 2022
Application Deadline: April 4, 2022
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The South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) solicits applications for the Bioinformatics Pilot Project (BIPP) Program. Designed to stimulate the application of genomics and bioinformatics methods, this program supports research and student training through the SC INBRE and South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research (SCTR) networks, as well as at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) across South Carolina. BIPP proposals must focus on biomedical science, provide opportunities for students to gain research experience and fit within the broad scientific focus areas of SC INBRE: (1) biochemistry/cell and molecular biology, (2) bioinformatics, (3) bio/biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine and (4) neuroscience.

South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence – Developmental Research Project Program
Letter of Intent Deadline: March 4, 2022
Application Deadline: April 4, 2022
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The South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) will solicit applications for the Developmental Research Project (DRP) Program, which is designed to foster faculty research programs at SC INBRE network institutions. DRP proposals must focus on biomedical science, provide opportunities for students to gain research experience and fit within the broad scientific focus areas of SC INBRE: (1) biochemistry/cell and molecular biology, (2) bioinformatics, (3) bio/biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine and (4) neuroscience.

South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence – Student-Initiated Research Projects Program
Letter of Intent Deadline: March 4, 2022
Application Deadline: April 4, 2022
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The South Carolina IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) and the SC INBRE Bioinformatics Core solicits applications for the Student-Initiated Research Project (SIRP) Program. This program is designed to enrich the academic experience of students and to better prepare future generations of researchers, investigators and entrepreneurs throughout the SC INBRE network. SIRP applications must apply bioinformatics tools to biomedical research questions. The project should include acquisition and/or computational analyses of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and/or health data. In addition, the project must fit within the broad scientific focus areas of SC INBRE: (1) biochemistry/cell and molecular biology, (2) bioinformatics, (3) bio/biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine and (4) neuroscience.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
Application Deadline: April 13, 2022
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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships are granted to scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines and encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. Get a link to the free online information session being held on Feb. 16, 2022, at 12:30 p.m.

National Endowment for the Humanities – Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
Optional Draft Proposal Application Deadline: Feb. 28, 2022
Application Deadline: April 20, 2022
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Through National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) – Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication, the NEH and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation jointly support individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. Applicants’ plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Competitive submissions embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis and clearly articulated value to humanities scholars, general audiences or both. All projects must be interpretive, advancing a scholarly argument through digital means and tools. Standalone databases, documentary films, podcasts and other projects that lack an explicit interpretive argument are not eligible. Get a link to the free online information session being held on Jan. 31, 2022, at 1 p.m.

National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadlines: Feb. 25, June 25, and Oct. 25, 2022
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The purpose of the Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions is to support small-scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for undergraduate students and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions. The research project must involve undergraduate students, and the research team must be composed primarily of undergraduate students. Student research involvement may include participation in the design of experiments and controls, collection and analysis of data, execution and troubleshooting of experiments, etc. Investigators supported under the AREA program will benefit from conducting independent research, and students will benefit from exposure to biomedical sciences research so that they consider careers in biomedical research.

Sea Grant Consortium – Program Development Grants
Applications Accepted on Rolling Basis, with Permission from the Organization
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The S.C. Sea Grant Consortium is a university-based program that supports the wide use and conservation of South Carolina’s coastal resources for a sustainable economy and environment. The consortium awards short-term, low-budget Program Development (“Seed”) Grants to individual projects requiring more urgent, unexpected funding support for their proposed project efforts. Program Development Grants are supported with federal Sea Grant funds and are provided only to those projects that are consistent with the goals and objectives of the consortium’s current Strategic Plan for FY 2018–2023. Three types of Program Development Grants are available: (1) technical, (2) outreach/education and (3) professional development. Project investigators interested in a grant should contact the consortium before proposal application submission.

Faculty planning to submit a proposal for external funding, should contact ORGA at grants@cofc.edu.

For further assistance with funding opportunities, email orga@cofc.edu, and follow ORGA on Facebook and Twitter for updates on funding opportunities, helpful tips and previous awards.