Greetings Colleagues, 

 

There are three items from NSF that I would like to bring to your attention. I know that some of you may think NSF to be a stretch for your particular fields or interests, but as these three deal with (1) education and workforce development to increase the understanding of clean energy; (2) language diversity relating to behavioral sciences and linguistics; and (3) funding conferences that promote equity and diversity, you might consider ways in which they resonate with your work. The first two are applications using the Dear Colleague Letter funding mechanism. The Clean Energy Technology DCL is initiated with a brief concept paper to an NSF program officer. The Stimulating Diversification in Language Science Research expands thinking in several Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences grant competition areas. Finally, there is a Webinar that will be held next week for the NSF GRANTED competition .  

 

Dear Colleague Letter: Clean Energy Technology RAISE or EAGER Proposals can be reviewed at the following link:  

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23109/nsf23109.jsp?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery 

Of interest of COEHD faculty is area “f”. Namely, Education and workforce development efforts: Example topics include understanding of workforce education and training needs; broadening participation opportunities; and new pedagogical approaches in order to advance and strengthen the U.S. competitiveness in the research areas listed above. A project’s scope may span from preK-12 through graduate school and career levels. Example efforts across different career and education levels include, but are not limited to, developing new curricula or teaching materials in clean energy, building partnerships with stakeholders to share data or software tools aiming to improve learning of clean energy concepts, partnerships with the private sector or government research institutions to create new training opportunities, involving undergraduate students in research, offering faculty or professional development workshops for experiential learning of clean energy concepts and applications, designing novel approaches to helping researchers and graduate students to understand lab-to-market processes, or building transfer pathways from community colleges to 4-year colleges. 

A three-page concept paper and one-half page budget to a program officer initiates the application process.  

 

Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Diversification in Language Science Research (LangDiv) can be reviewed at the following link: 

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23103/nsf23103.jsp?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery 

The following paragraph from the DCL illustrates what topics are to be addressed in terms of “Diversification”. Examples of possible topics suitable for this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) include but are not limited to: language science in variable contexts (e.g., acquisition in bilingual/multilingual or bi-dialectical communities); effects of socioeconomic status on language development; effects of language, culture and experience on cognition; neuroscientific studies within diverse language communities; and effects of cross-linguistic variation on language processing. In their proposals, PIs should follow scientifically guided approaches to diversity (e.g., a cross-linguistic comparison study with well-founded scientific motivation) and clearly explain why the specific approaches to diversification or integration in the proposal will have an impact on developing more generalizable theories of language development, the mechanisms of language learning and processing or the neural basis of language. 

Here are the grant areas with their deadlines: 

• Cognitive Neuroscience—August 14, 2023 
• Developmental Sciences—July 31, 2023 
• Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Documenting Endangered Languages—September 15, 2023 
• Linguistics—July 17, 2023 
• Perception, Action, and Cognition—May 15 2023 - June 15, 2023 – Window (The May-June proposal window is only for conference proposals, not for research proposals. Proposals for conferences that will be held less than one year after submission may be returned without review.)  July 15 2023 - August 1, 2023 – Window (The July-August proposal window is for research proposals only. Conference proposals should not be submitted during this submission window.) 
• Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence—August 2, 2023 

 

Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) provides support for symposia, conferences, and meetings to address systemic barriers within the nation’s research enterprise by improving research support and service capacity at emerging research institutions. GRANTED is a whole-of-NSF approach that will transform NSF and the science and engineering community to develop the collective knowledge, skills, talents and desire to serve within the nation’s science and engineering enterprise. 

Here is a link to register for an NSF GRANTED webinar taking place on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. https://new.nsf.gov/events/nsf-granted-program-description-webinar/2023-05-24 

 

Please contact me if I can be of any assistance to you in applying for these grants. In addition, I previously notified faculty of the Artificial Intelligence in K-12 DCL, and COEHD Research is very interested in providing support to groups or individuals seeking funding under this DCL.  

 

Thank you. 

 

--Iwan