How to Enter the NSF 2026 Idea Machine Competition

The National Science Foundation NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition is an opportunity for researchers, the public, and other interested stakeholders to suggest pressing research questions that need to be answered in the coming decade: the next set of Big Ideas for future investment by NSF.

Participants can earn prizes and receive public recognition. For the Grand Prize, each final winning entry will receive $26,000 and its authors (individuals or teams) will be invited to a recognition event in the Washington, D.C. area.

To enter your idea, first review all the materials on the NSF 2026 Idea Machine website.

Then submit your entry by October 26, 2018 to

https://nsf-ideamachine.skild.com/skild2/nsfideamachine/loginPage.action.

You must provide the following information for your entry:

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Registration Is Open for the NSF Fall Grants Conference

Registration for the Fall 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference opened Sept. 6 on the Fall 2018 Grants Conference website.

The event will take place November 8–9, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Intercontinental New Orleans. The registration fee is $425. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided to all participants.

NSF anticipates that this event will reach capacity very quickly, so please register as soon as possible to secure your spot.

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Register for the 2018 UF Undergraduate Research Expo

Registration is open for faculty interested in attending the 2018 Undergraduate Research Expo.

The purpose of the expo is to provide an informal setting for undergraduate students to talk with research faculty. Faculty and graduate students from all fields are invited to this meet and greet.

The expo is an excellent place to recruit undergraduate researchers while providing an opportunity for students to learn about research at UF and to network with research faculty members.

This year’s event will be held September 24 from 5 pm – 7 pm in the Reitz Rion Ballroom.

Click here to register.

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Awarded Projects for August 2018

Congratulations to Cynthia Griffin, James Algina, Nancy Dana, and Walter Leite for their award from the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Herman Knopf for his subcontract award DHHS Flow Through from the University of South Carolina; Philip Poekert for his award Jim Moran Foundation Flow Through from the UF Foundation; Philip Poekert and Paige Pullen for their award from the Charleston County School District; Philip Poekert for his awards from Bright from the Start Georgia Department of ECL, Southwest Human Development, the School Board of Seminole County, and the Alachua County School Board; and Patricia Snyder for her award from the Santa Clara County Office of Education.

For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.

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Submitted Projects for August 2018

Best wishes to Christopher Anthony for his subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from Pennsylvania State University; Pasha Antonenko, Kara Dawson, Amber Benedict, and Swarup Bhunia for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Crystal Bishop, James Algina, Brian Reichow, and Patricia Snyder for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Mary Brownell for her proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Christopher Busey for his subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Missouri; Maria Coady and David Miller for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Ester de Jong, Maria Coady, Jo Kozuma, Sondra Smith, and Jacqueline Swank for their proposal to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education; Ester de Jong, Maya Israel, Christina Gardner-McCune, and Rose Pringle for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Joseph Gagnon and Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Joseph Gagnon for his subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from Georgia State University; Timothy Jacobbe for his subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from Florida State University; Dennis Kramer for his subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Tennessee; Holly Lane and Page Pullen for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Walter Leite and Katerina Marcoulides for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley and Amber Benedict for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Katerina Marcoulides for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Alabama; Katerina Marcoulides for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Louisville; Jonte Myers and Mary Brownell for their proposal to the American Educational Research Association; Dorothy Espelage and Philip Poekert for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Philip Poekert for his proposals to the Naples Children and Education Foundation and Study Edge; Brian Reichow and Patricia Snyder for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; Patricia Snyder, Crystal Bishop, and Darbianne Shannon for their subcontract proposal DHHS Flow Through from STG International, Inc.; Joni Splett for her proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/IES; and Joni Splett for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of South Carolina.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.

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IES Awards $160 Million in Grants for Education and Special Education Research

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has awarded 83 grants to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline for research that will increase the evidence base across a wide array of topics in education and special education. The 2018 grants, representing an investment of more than $160 million over five years, are offered through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). 

Education Research Grants Program (CFDA 84.305A)

NCER has awarded 54 grants for its 2018 competition to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline, representing an investment of more than $112 million. Forty-one colleges, universities, and research agencies received 2018 NCER Education Research Grants.

Click here to see the full list of 2018 NCER Education Research Grants with links to project abstracts. 

Special Education Research Grants Program (CFDA 84.324A)

NCSER has awarded 29 grants for its 2018 competition to applications considered under the August 2017 deadline, representing an investment of more than $49 million. The Special Education Research Grants have been awarded to 24 colleges, universities, or research agencies.

Click here to see the full list of 2018 NCSER Special Education Research Grants with links to project abstracts. Read more →

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NSF Idea Machine Competition Opening Soon

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is planning to open a new prize competition effort in late August to help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering for the next eight years. Read more →

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UFIT: Low-Cost Basic Storage Is Now Available

UF Information Technology (UFIT) now offers a basic storage tier. This is the lowest-cost durable SMB storage option available. Basic storage will be encrypted at rest by default and have a daily snapshot, which is retained for seven days for data recovery purposes. (The snapshots are intended for retrieving your data within a week’s time, provided the data center and the storage devices are intact and not impacted by any true physical damage or disaster.)

The basic storage tier is the simplest of offerings for the archiving and storing of large volumes of digital content/data/files and may be requested through the submission of a myIT ticket to the UFIT Storage Team. The features of the basic storage tier include the following:

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UF DSP Releases New Award Funding Dashboard

The Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) is pleased to announce the release of an interactive Award Funding Dashboard in Enterprise Analytics: the new, improved Enterprise Reporting.

The Sponsored Program data and report suite is now in Enterprise Analytics and the reports in Enterprise Reporting will be sunset and no longer supported as of August 31, 2018. Enterprise Reporting will continue to be the home of other UF data, until all data and reports move into the new platform at a later date.

Access is available via the “Enterprise Analytics” link in myUFL, or by logging in at reporting.it.ufl.edu, using your Gatorlink and password. Roles from Enterprise Reporting have transferred over to Enterprise Analytics, so access should be the same.

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Awarded Projects for July 2018

Congratulations to Lynda Haynes for her award from the Florida Department of Education; Elliot Douglas and Erica McCray for their award from the National Science Foundation; Philip Poekert and Page Pullen for their award from Children’s Services Council of Florida, Inc.; Philip Poekert for his award from Valley of the Sun United Way; and Stephen Smith, Joni Splett, and Ann Daunic for their award from the Institute of Education Sciences.

For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.
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Submitted Projects for July 2018

Best wishes to Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, Andreas Keil, and Stephen Miller for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Amber Benedict for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from the University of Connecticut; Kara Dawson for her subcontract proposal IES Flow Through from Pacific University; Herman Knopf for his subcontract proposal DHHS Flow Through from the University of South Carolina; Page Pullen and Holly Lane for their proposal to the US Department of Education/OSERS; Philip Poekert for his proposals to Study Edge; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Southwest Human Development; Philip Poekert for his proposal to Lauren’s Kids; Philip Poekert for his proposal to the Alachua County School Board; Christopher Redding, Isaac McFarlin, David Miller, and Justin Ortagus for their proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Patricia Snyder for her proposal to the Santa Clara County Office of Education; and Dennis Kramer for his proposal to General Services Administration.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.
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Summer Grant Proposal Submissions: Update

Faculty in the COE are submitting 11 proposals this summer including 8 Institute of Education Sciences (IES) proposals many with the same deadline. To accommodate all submissions, the OER requests that PIs schedule an appointment time with Brian Lane blane@coe.ufl.edu to ensure all proposals are finalized and uploaded successfully before the deadline.

Also, if you have not already done so, please send a Capital Needs form for each submission to Ana Puig anapuig@coe.ufl.edu and Brian Lane blane@coe.ufl.edu. Read more →

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IES Offers Webinars for FY 2019 Funding Opportunities

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is hosting webinars to offer information about FY 2019 funding opportunities. Staff from the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) and the National Center for Education Research (NCER) will provide presentations, transcripts, and closed-caption video recordings.

All webinars will be recorded and the recording, presentation, and transcript will be available soon after the live webinar is held.

IES has already hosted the following webinars:  Read more →

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Changes Are Coming to What Works Clearinghouse

Excerpted from Message from the IES Director

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is exploring ways to improve the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a flagship product of IES since its inception.

The WWC recently passed its 15th birthday and has gone through many changes since then to ensure that it continues to help the nation identify what works for whom and under what conditions.

Here are some of the general directions IES will be exploring:

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UFIRST FYI: Project IDC Returns

Each year, the Office of the Vice President for Research returns indirect costs collected from grants and contracts during the preceding fiscal year (July 1 – June 30) to principal investigators, department chairs, and if appropriate, directors of certain authorized centers. The current distributions are at Project Manager (formerly Project PI) 10%; Department 7.5%; and if a center is identified in UFIRST as supporting the project, then 7.5% to the Center. The remainder of the indirect costs collected are returned to the college after Sponsored Program Assessment (SPA) tax is assessed.

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