March 2023 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News – We list funding opportunities for scholars in the humanities, social sciences and the arts.

AFRI Foundational Review Criteria & Narrative Format  – We discuss the new USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Foundational and Applied Science Program RFA.

NSF Office Hours and the PRoSPCT Tool – We discuss new approaches to help PIs connect with NSF Program Directors. 

Grants: Native American Graves Repatriation Act  – The National Parks Services makes grant available to museums, Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, as well as affiliated university to repatriate or transfer collections of certain Native American cultural items. We discuss these grants.

Budget of the US Government FY23/Agency Allocations – President Biden’s new proposed budget for FY 2023 was released last week. We discuss what it means for research funding. 

Basic Research: The Trial-and-Error Trap  – Reviewers for basic research agencies such as NSF and NIH dislike projects that take a trial-and-error approach. We discuss this trap and how to avoid it (reprinted from the March 2019 issue). 

How the Department of Energy Reviews Your Proposal – We discuss how the Department of Energy reviews proposals (reprinted from the May 2019 issue).

How Your Research Fits in Your Discipline’s State of the Art – We discuss how to explain how your project fits into your discipline’s current and emerging state of the art (reprinted from the May 2019 issue).