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The manager of grant relations for the University College and Great Valley is the University Park-based resource for all UC and GV faculty and staff members interested in submitting a proposal for external funding. The grants manager provides a wide array of assistance for proposal development and submission. This assistance includes editing and advising on proposal content, preparing budgets and standard agency forms, reviewing proposal packages for conformance to guidelines, policies and federal circulars, and submitting proposals. In addition, the grants manager serves as the college liaison with the Penn State Office of Sponsored Programs and Office of Research Accounting, as well as any other Penn State office pertinent to the sponsored project. Also, the grants manager prepares the electronic proposal internal approval form (ePIAF) that is required for each proposal for external funding.

Contact the manager of grant relations:
Lisa Wiedemer, CRA
204 E. Calder Way, Ste. 208
State College, PA  16801
[email protected]
814-865-6014 (phone)
814-863-5513 (fax)

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Future Manufacturing

As noted in the 2022 National Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing (NSAM), advances in US manufacturing enable the economy to continuously grow as new technologies and innovations increase productivity, enable next-generation products, support our capability to address the climate crisis, and create new, high-quality, and higher-paying jobs. In accordance with that strategy, this solicitation aims to support fundamental research that will enable sustainable new manufacturing technologies and education to grow production and employment in America’s manufacturing sector.
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Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs

The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Core Programs Track supports research to understand why organisms are structured the way they are and function as they do. Proposals are welcomed in all of the core scientific program areas supported by the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS).
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Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs

MCB supports research that promises to uncover the fundamental properties of living systems across atomic, molecular, subcellular, and cellular scales. The program gives high priority to projects that advance mechanistic understanding of the structure, function, and evolution of molecular, subcellular, and cellular systems, especially research that aims at quantitative and predictive knowledge of complex behavior and emergent properties.
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Division of Environmental Biology

The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time.
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Humanities Initiatives

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs: Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities, Humanities Initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Humanities Initiatives at Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Humanities Initiatives at Community Colleges.
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Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models

The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) Program supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models.The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Dear Colleague Letter: New to IUSE

With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) encourages the submission of proposals to the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) Program from institutions that have not had prior funding from the IUSE: EDU Program.
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Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy invites applications

The Milken Institute invites applications to the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy, which aims to incentivize entrepreneurs who have ideas for solutions to advance progress toward UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
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Manufacturing Systems Integration

The Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI) Program supports fundamental research addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for the next industrial revolution, with particular emphasis on the digital integration of design and manufacturing within the larger life cycle ecosystem.
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NEA Research Grants in the Arts, FY2024

Research Grants in the Arts support research studies that investigate the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. The NEA welcomes research proposals that address priority topics and possible questions as outlined in the agency’s FY 2022-2026 research agenda.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) Conferences and Workshops

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to encourage nationally transformative ideas and scalable models to strengthen the Nation’s research enterprise, particularly at emerging research and minority-serving institutions. Broadly defined, the research enterprise includes human capital, practices and processes related to research development, research administration, technology transfer and commercialization, corporate relation/public-private partnerships, research integrity, compliance and security, research policy, student research training, and research leadership.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Proposals: NSF and DFG Opportunity for Collaborations in Physics

The pursuit of scientific goals recognizes no geographic boundaries and as such, international collaborations are today more the norm than the exception. To facilitate the support of collaborative work between US groups and their German counterparts, NSF’s Division of Physics (PHY) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Division of Physics and Chemistry (PC) have recently agreed on a review process for projects in those areas of physics that fall within the purview of PHY.
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Dear Colleague Letter: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplemental Funding in Computer and Information Science and Engineering

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites grantees with active CISE awards to submit requests for Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplements, following the guidelines in the REU Sites and Supplements solicitation. CISE also invites grantees with active CISE awards to submit requests for Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplements, following the guidelines in the RET in Engineering and Computer Science: Sites and Supplements solicitation.
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Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-Net)

Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide.
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ACLS invites applications for Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs Collaborative Programming Grants

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) supports the creation and circulation of knowledge that advances understanding of humanity and human endeavors in the past, present, and future, with a view toward improving human experience. To that end, ACLS invites proposals for Collaborative Programming Grants offered by the Luce/ACLS Program in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs, made possible by the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation.
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