GO News - August 2023

GO News – August 2023

Happy Summer, everyone!

Calls for Proposals (Reminder):

  • National Endowment for the Humanities: The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced their summer stipends competition for summer 2024. Applicants holding tenured or tenure-track positions must be nominated by the college. Williams may only submit two applicants, who will be determined through an internal application review and nomination process.

    Non-tenure-track, emeritus, and visiting faculty are also eligible to apply and do not have to go through the nomination process.

The NEH Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities by supporting advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. The program awards $6,000 to support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months; support can be for any stage of development, but NEH places emphasis on early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards can be most effective.

Summer stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for other times of the year. Projects may begin as early as May 1, 2024.

NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research, which can be of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

The Notice of Funding Opportunity can be found here. See the Application Components Table on page 8 for instructions on assembling your application. Please note that, for the August 23 CAP review deadline, full letters of recommendation are not required. Instead, provide the names and affiliations of your two confirmed reference letter writers, as well as any additional context for your letter writers.

For tenured and tenure-track faculty, Williams’ internal deadline for a review of applications by the CAP will be Wednesday, August 23, 2023 by 5pm. Applications can be submitted directly to Brenda in the grants office via email attachment. If selected by the CAP for nomination, the grants office will work with you to submit your proposal to the NEH via the grants.gov portal by September 20, 2023.

The deadline for non-tenure-track, emeritus, and visiting faculty to apply directly via the grants.gov portal is also September 20, 2023.

For your reference, successful NEH proposals written by Williams faculty can be found in the Faculty Grant Proposal Library in GLOW.

Please feel free to reach out to the grants office with questions! The NEH also welcomes questions directly. You can contact a member of the Summer Stipends program staff at [email protected] or 202-606-8200.

Just a Reminder:

  • This year’s grant writing workshop is coming soon! As mentioned in last month’s GO News, Drs Beverly and Bob Kahn will be coming to campus to share their grantwriting expertise with us on August 25. This workshop will be held in the Faculty Club from 8:30am to 4pm, and breakfast and lunch will be served. We hope you will join us for this workshop. Please RSVP here.

Did you know?

  • The National Science Foundation has added a new requirement for institutions to provide mentoring training and mentorship as part of the responsible and ethical conduct of research education program they provide to students engaged in NSF-sponsored projects.

    The new Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR) certification replaces the existing RECR certification and expands the training requirement to faculty and other senior personnel and mandates that the training cover mentor training and mentorship. This new requirement applies to all proposals submitted after July 31, 2023.

    More information and links to resources can be found at the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science.

  • The National Humanities Center 2024-2025 Residential Fellowships application portal is now open. The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships. Mid-career, senior, and emerging scholars from all areas of the humanities with a strong record of peer-reviewed work are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. EDT, October 5, 2023. For more information and to apply, click here.

Upcoming Opportunities:

  • Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation: Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program: The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early-career faculty in the chemical sciences at primarily undergraduate institutions, who are after the fourth and not after the twelfth years of their independent academic careers.

    The award, which requires an institutional nomination, is based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergraduates, as well as a compelling commitment to teaching, and provides an unrestricted research grant of $75,000. Deadline: August 3, 2023. 

  • National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH Summer Stipends Program: The NEH Summer Stipends Program awards $6,000 to support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months; support can be for any stage of development, but NEH places emphasis on early-stage research and late-stage writing in which small awards can be most effective.

    For tenured and tenure-track faculty, Williams’ internal deadline for a review of applications by the CAP will be Wednesday, August 23, 2023 by 5pm. Applications can be submitted directly to Brenda in the grants office via email attachment. If selected by the CAP for nomination, the grants office will work with you to submit your proposal to the NEH via the gov portal by September 20, 2023. (The deadline for non-tenure-track, emeritus, and visiting faculty to apply directly via the grants.gov portal is also September 20, 2023.)

  • Fulbright Scholar Program: U.S. Scholar Program: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields, can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. Application Deadline: September 15, 2023, 11.59 PM PST.
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship: Open to untenured scholars, working on or off the tenure track, who have earned a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences on or after September 29, 2015. Maximum award of $60K for six to twelve consecutive months devoted to full-time research and/or writing. Applications due by 9pm September 28, 2023.
  • New York Public Library: Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships: Offers fellowships (up to $75,000) to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the research collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.  Renowned for the extraordinary comprehensiveness of its collections, the Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.  Applications due September 29, 2023, 5 p.m. EDT. 
  • American Philosophical Society – Franklin Research Grants: Up to $6,000 grants designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.  Applications due October 2, 2023. 
  • National Humanities Center Fellowships: Residential fellowship providing fellows freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the services provided by the Center. Applicants must have a doctorate or equivalent; mid-career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply as well as emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work. Scholars from all humanities fields, as well as those in natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life engaged in humanistic projects are eligible. Stipend amount individually determined. Applications due October 5, 2023. 
  • American Chemical Society: Undergraduate Research & New Investigator Grants: Supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions in the US and other countries. ACS PRF grants are intended as seed money, to enable investigators to initiate a new research direction.  Undergrad research grants – $70K over 3 years; Undergrad new investigator grants – $55K over 2 years.  Applications due October 8, 2023. 
  • NIH Research Enhancement Award (R15): Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the nation’s research scientists but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. R15 goals are to: support meritorious research, expose students to research, and strengthen the research environment of the institution.  Awards of up to $300K over three years.  Applications due October 25, 2023.
  • Don’t forget! More upcoming grant application deadlines can always be found here.
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