Grants & Contracts News

Call for Proposals: NEH Summer Stipend 2014 Internal Competition

Deadline: June 24th, 2013

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced the 2014 Summer Stipends competition for projects beginning May 2014. Please visit the website below for general information, application guidelines, FAQs, and proposal samples.

http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends

Universities are only allowed to submit two nominees for this opportunity.

To select the nominees, pre-proposal applications will be reviewed by a panel at Northern Michigan University, and two will be selected for submission to NEH.

Internal Selection Process:

Applicants should prepare the following items according to the Summer Stipend Guidelines, and submit them to grants@nmu.edu by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, June 24, 2013.

Project narrative (limited to 3 single-spaced pages)

Bibliography (limited to 1 single-spaced page)

CV (limited to 2 single-spaced pages)

Appendix (ONLY REQUIRED for editions, translations, database projects, or  for proposals that include visual materials)

Name, e-mail address, and affiliation for two reference letter writers (letters are not due, only the contact information for those who will be a reference)

If selected by the campus panel, the applicant will submit the final proposal using Grants.gov by the September 26, 2013 deadline and provide reference letters online by the October deadline (to be established by NEH).

Contact for questions/comments on NEH Summer Stipends: Kristin Beck (krbeck@nmu.edu, x2440).

NMU nets $378K in external funding Dec. 2012-March 2013

Faculty and staff at Northern Michigan University received a total of $378,875 in external funds during the quarter December 2012 to March 2013. Awards range in size from $2,000 to $120,000, with every dollar benefiting programs that support students, faculty and other stakeholders at NMU.

Projects range from law enforcement training to support for a traveling original theater performance to a study of avian botulism, and much more. A complete list of awards and program directors is available: NMU Dec-Mar Awards.

The Grants and Contracts Office wishes to congratulate all individuals and teams who received funds, and encourage everyone on NMU's campus interested in scholarly activities to start the conversation regarding funding support. The Grants and Contracts office is located in 401 Cohodas. Come visit:

Erica Franich, director, ext. 2456 or efranich@nmu.edu.

Kristin Beck, grant coordinator, ext. 2440 or krbeck@nmu.edu.

NSF unveils new reporting system

As of Feb. 1, 2013 investigators are advised to stop using the NSF FastLane Project Reporting System and instead log in to NSF's new Research.gov reporting system tool. Investigators will use the new system for all annual, final and interim reports for NSF funded projects.

Investigators will lose access to the FastLane reporting system and will be required to submit all reports using Research.gov by March 18,02013.

According to a Dear Colleague Letter released by NSF, the new platform offers:

• A more consolidated project reporting dashboard that includes the Annual, Final, Interim and Project Outcomes Reports;
• A more structured collection of the project reports data for enhanced NSF use; and
• The adoption of a federal-wide data dictionary to increase the consistency of implementation across federal research agencies.

For the full announcement, read the NSF Dear Colleague Letter.

See NSF FAQs for quick information and answers to questions about NSF funding opportunities, proposal submission and other topics.

NMU Receives Department of Education Funding for McNair Scholars Program

NMU McNair Scholar Brittney Dodge presents her research at a recent conference.

The Department of Education approved five years of funding for NMU’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. The McNair Program is one of three federally-funded TRIO programs offered at NMU.  Each year NMU receives over $1 million in federal grants for TRIO programming. Click here for more info.

The TRIO programs at NMU:

1) Student Support Services
2) McNair Scholars Program
3) Upward Bound Math-Science