The President has released his FY 2021 budget request to Congress. The following is a summary of the budget requests for the U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Science Foundation.
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider recently had the opportunity to welcome several hundred of the field’s experts to the annual peer review meetings for the Research Center’s grant applications. At that meeting, he talked about the importance of SEER Principles. He shared current IES thinking about one of them: scaling.
With the February 21 UFIRST update, the requirement at time of proposal to comply with Public Health Service (PHS) and National Science Foundation (NSF) regulations concerning research and Significant Financial Interest (SFI) compliance has moved from the DSP-05 PDF attachment to an activity within the UFIRST Smartform. This activity appears for Principal Investigators and Key […]
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has changed its place-based Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 17–21, 2020 to a virtual meeting due to the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). AERA is planning to host immediately a series of “Briefing and Listening Sessions” on the changes via Zoom: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00 pm–5:00 […]
The U.S. Department of Education (U.S. ED) has announced opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process by reviewing applications for competitive grant funding for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE), Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE), and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services OSERS. An individual interested in serving as […]
Grant and contract productivity is healthy for the COE, and we (the OER team) want to do whatever we can to support all principal investigators to accomplish their grant/contract goals. See OER Top Ten Reminders for COE Principal Investigators for some friendly reminders that will make things run as smoothly as possible as we support […]
The UF International Center is pleased to announce that Fulbright Awareness Month will be celebrated from March 10–April 10, 2020. In collaboration with the UF Fulbright Lectures Committee, UF Honors, the Graduate School, College of Arts, UF IFAS, Dial Center for Written and Oral Communications, College of Journalism and Communications, College of Education, Levin College of Law, […]
The PERSIST project workshop about NSF Noyce Track 4 grants scheduled for Saturday, March 14, prior to the now cancelled NARST conference, will be hosted as an online workshop instead. Now that the workshop will be online, and not constrained by physical space or food budget limitations, additional participants may apply by Wednesday, March 11, […]
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1) has been released and will be effective for proposals submitted or due, and awards made, on or after June 1, 2020. NSF conducted a webinar on February 6, 2020, covering the significant changes to the PAPPG (NSF 20-1). The […]
UF Research, Division of Research Program Development is sponsoring an NSF grants and CAREER award workshop for early-career tenure-track faculty hired between 2017 and 2020 (will be expanded if space constraints allow). When: April 1, 2020 8:30 am–5:00 pm Location: Reitz Union Chamber Room Presenter: Dr. John Robertson from Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops Please […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference will be held May 18–19, 2020 in Minneapolis, MN. Registration opens on March 17, 2020 at 12 pm EST. NSF anticipates the conference will reach capacity very quickly and encourages you to register as soon as it opens. In the meantime, please check www.nsfpolicyoutreach.com for the most up-to-date […]
General registration rates end March 30, 2020 for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Spring 2020 Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration to be held April 20–22 in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, see the NIH Regional Seminar website.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking public comment on the framework for the next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan. This plan, for fiscal years (FYs) 2021–2025, will serve as an update to the current FYs 2016-2020 plan. The Request for Information (RFI; NOT-OD-20-064) invites the public to provide feedback via the RFI webform through March 25, 2020. NIH is […]
Preparation is underway for the new FORMS-F version of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application forms and instructions required for due dates on or after May 25, 2020. NIH has posted the FORMS-F application guides on the How to Apply – Application Guide page. The significant changes section summarizes the new updates.
The System for Award Management (SAM) will introduce the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI), which is currently scheduled to replace the DUNS Number near the end of 2020. Users can expect to see UEI labels in March 2020 when Grants.gov implements the label change across the system in preparation for the SAM transition to the UEI. […]
