Please join the Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) program for a webinar on Tuesday, May 10th, 2021 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT. There will be a short presentation, followed by an open Q&A session with cognizant Program Officers. BRC-BIO is a new NSF program intended to enhance research capacity and broaden participation …
Category: Solicitation
Did you miss it? April 2022 Virtual Office Hours Recap: BIO-LEAPS
The slides are available here. The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held a Virtual Office Hour on April 21st, 2022 where we spoke about the Leading Culture Change Through Professional Societies of Biology (BIO-LEAPS, NSF 22-542). Program officers active in this opportunity visited to discuss and answer questions that the audience had. BIO-LEAPS aims …
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Learn more! Updates in the 2022 CAREER Program Solicitation
A new CAREER Program solicitation has been released. A few changes from previous years appear in the 2022 edition: The submission deadline for all Directorates is the 4th Wednesday of July at 5:00 pm local time. This year that is July 27, 2022.The purpose of the departmental chair letter has been clarified, emphasizing it serves …
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Did you miss it? March 2022 Virtual Office Hours Recap: Research Experiences for Teachers Sites in Biological Sciences (BIORETS)
The slides are available here. The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held a Virtual Office Hour on March 17, 2022 on the Research Experiences for Teachers Sites in Biological Sciences (BIORETS, NSF 21-584). Program officers active in this opportunity attended to discuss the funding opportunity and answer questions. BIORETS supports biological research experiences for …
Building Intentionally Diverse Teams via RCN
While collaboration is key to innovation, most scientists receive little or no formal training in how to work together. Instead, many of us rely on interpersonal intuition to build a lab team. Conferences extend the reach of the lab, and, if one can meet and connect with the right people, then labs can work together. …
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Did you miss it? December 2021 Virtual Office Hours Recap: Mid-Career Advancement
The slides are available HERE The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held a Virtual Office Hour on 16 December 2021 providing information on the Mid-Career Advancement solicitation (MCA, NSF 21-516). We were joined by program directors who work directly on this funding opportunity. The MCA funding opportunity focuses on researchers at the Associate Professor …
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Learn More About a New Dear Colleague Letter from IOS: Organismal Systems and Infection Biology (OSIB)
NSF 22-016 With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) the Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS) calls for proposals that build on our ongoing programs to move forward our understanding of infection processes in natural systems. All study systems are appropriate, except those that focus solely on human diseases. Proposals that focus on building a mechanistic understanding …
Did you miss it? October Virtual Office Hours Recap
Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) The slides are available HERE. The IOS Virtual Office Hour for October 2021 focused on the Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO, 21-622) solicitation. We were joined by program directors who work directly on this funding opportunity. The IntBIO solicitation replaced the Rules of Life Track formerly featured in the core …
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Learn More About a New IOS Solicitation! Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC): Expanding Understanding and Improving Predictions of Life on a Warming Planet (22-513)
BIO’s new solicitation, Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC), calls for proposals focused on understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of organismal response to climate change to improve our ability to predict and to mitigate maladaptive biological responses to rapidly changing environments and to facilitate organismal adaptation and persistence. Full Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2022 In particular, …
New BIO Opportunity: Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) Solicitation NSF 22-500
BRC-BIO is a new solicitation intended to enhance research capacity and broaden participation of new faculty of biology at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs), and other universities and colleges that are not among the nation’s most research-intensive and resourced institutions. Some key information from the solicitation: Primary investigators must hold at least a 50% tenure-track (or tenure-track equivalent) position as an assistant professor …
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