External Opportunities

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

Arts and Humanities

Social Sciences

When you find a funding source that fits your project, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) for assistance with your proposals and grant applications.

Note: OSP requires 10 business days for review and approval of all proposal submissions. This timeline provides at minimum five (5) business days to assist in creating the internal business-related elements and five (5) business days for internal routing and approvals. Read more about this timeline.

Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award

This opportunity provides $25,000 (with a $25,000 match required) and expert external reviews to an assistant professor to support his/her research and strengthen the researchers’ results to be more competitive for a faculty early career award. The new RFP can be found here.

STEM Opportunities

NSF launches trainee track to help prepare graduate students to enter STEM careers

The new track will expand the NSF Research Traineeship Program in key technology areas

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new track of the NSF Research Traineeship program (NRT) designed to help graduate students at non-R1 institutions of higher education (IHEs) – institutions without high research activity – develop the skills, knowledge and competencies needed to pursue a range of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The NSF Research Traineeship Institutional Partnership Pilot (NRT-IPP) will catalyze a new partnership approach, bringing industry to the table to in turn enable students to receive industry-relevant experience in key technology areas as outlined in the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022."

The NRT program has long been dedicated to shaping and supporting effective training of students at the graduate level. The program focuses on high-priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas using comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. NRT-IPP advances these goals with further emphases on industry and specific focus areas within STEM.

The program invites proposals to test, develop and implement innovative and effective STEM graduate education models leading to industry-relevant graduate programs at non-R1 institutions. These institutions will collaborate with industry partners and partners at IHEs who have successfully implemented or are implementing NRT projects in the chosen focus area(s) identified for this new track.

Click here to view more information about this funding opportunity.

EPSCoR Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (EPSCoR CREST Centers) | NSF - National Science Foundation.

A program from the U.S. National Science Foundation, focused for EPSCoR jurisdictions, has come to our attention from the NSF Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) and the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES). Eligible institutions are Institutions of Higher Education that offer doctoral degrees in NSF STEM areas and are located in EPSCoR jurisdictions (like Nebraska) and are Emerging Research Institutions. Please see the following link for details: EPSCoR Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (EPSCoR CREST Centers) | NSF - National Science Foundation.

Deadline: December 6, 2024

Questions? unosponpro@unomaha.edu

Information Management Prototype for Clinical and Translational Research (IMPACT-CTR)

Dear Translational Team Leaders:

I invite you to participate in a study I’m conducting to understand how funded translational research teams manage their information. This study, Information Management Prototype for Clinical and Translational Research (IMPACT-CTR), is funded by an R01 from the National Library of Medicine and aims to understand the tools and strategies teams use in seeking, using, creating, sharing, storing, and retrieving information while conducting collaborative clinical and translational research. (For more information on this topic, please see our two JCTS papers on this topic, linked below.) We will use what we learn to create training materials to help teams develop evidence-based information strategies that can make CTR - and all scientific work - more efficient and effective.

To participate in this study, please complete this interest form, and a member of the research team will reach out to schedule a brief informational call!

Please see below and attached for more information and feel free to forward this note on to any other translational team leaders who might be interested in participating. I look forward to hearing more about your information practices and strategies!

Thanks,

Betsy

Betsy Rolland, PhD MLIS MPH

Principal Investigator, IMPACT-CTR

Associate Director, Team Science

Sage Bionetworks

betsy.rolland@sagebase.org

Why should you and your team participate?

You will be contributing to science! By sharing your strategies and challenges around information, you will help us create best practices that other teams can implement, saving everyone time and energy.

• You will be improving your team work! In previous research, we have found that the simple act of discussing team processes, like how your team manages information, will have a positive impact on how your team works together. Teams rarely take the time to discuss their approach to teamwork, which can lead to conflict and less effective teams. By participating in this project, your team will begin to pay attention to how you work together, instead of focusing exclusively on your scientific tasks.
• You will be modeling for your trainee and staff that “doing science” is more than just the data collection and analyses! By participating in discussions around teamwork, you’re providing essential training to future scientists in leading effective teams.
• You will have access to expert-facilitated Collaboration Planning and the new information learning module! At the end of the interviews, I will schedule a 90-minute facilitated Collaboration Planning session with your team, where I walk you through honing your team’s approach to collaboration. Once the new information-focused learning module is complete, your team will have early access to it.

Who is eligible to participate?

Any funded team working in CTR, broadly defined, is invited to participate! Your work could fall at any phase in the translational research process, from basic to clinical to population to community-based research. If your work has translational potential, we would love to talk with you! Teams should have a minimum of four members (including the PI) who are interested in participating, preferably representing multiple roles (e.g., project manager, data manager, scientist, student, etc.). If you are unsure about your eligibility, please reach out, and we would be happy to discuss!

What does participation entail?

Participation in this study requires you and members of your team to each complete a brief (~10 min) survey about your team’s processes, then participate in an interview about your team’s collaborative work (1 hour). There is no advanced preparation required for this interview, and most people find it quite fun to talk about the ways in which they collaborate! A few teams will be asked to allow a member of our study team to attend 1-2 team meetings to observe your team’s collaborative work in action and a few individuals will be asked to participate in an additional user experience interview (30-60 min) in which they demonstrate various tools or strategies for information management. All of these interviews and observations will be scheduled at your team’s convenience.

This study was deemed “not-research” by the WCG, IRB#1-1706645-1.

Where can I find more information about IMPACT-CTR?

Please visit https://impactctr.sagebionetworks.org/ for more information about this study and how you can participate!

Previous JCTS Papers on Information Behaviors of Translational Teams:

Chladek J, Kelly PW, Rolland B. Freelance information management agents: why information management is so hard on translational teams. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2023;7(1):e209. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.616

Kelly PW, Chladek J, Rolland B. Toward a translational team science hierarchy of needs: Exploring the information management challenges of team science. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2023;7(1):e210. doi:10.1017/cts.2023.614

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Arts and Humanities Opportunities

Humanities Nebraska 2024 Grant Opportunities

A Grant Program with an Emphasis on "Connections"

This grant program focuses on the humanities in our everyday lives with a special "connections" emphasis.

Learn more here

Nebraska Arts Council 2024 Grant Opportunities

Arts Learning Projects Grants

This grant program supports initiatives with a strong educational emphasis in preK-12 schools or in community settings. Community-based projects must incorporate educational learning outcomes in the arts. School-based projects must incorporate local or national educational learning standards in the arts and may also be aligned with standards in other disciplines.

Learn more here

Social Sciences Opportunities

RWJF Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health - Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline.

RWJF Evidence for Action - Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline.

Nebraska Academic Research and Development Grant - Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline.

Omaha Community Foundation - Applications are accepted on a rolling deadline.