Research Round-Up
Research Round-Up is a communication devoted to sharing information related to open funding opportunities and research administration procedures.
For additional information on deadlines, processes and procedures, please instead see our Sponsored Programs Support Services webpage.
Friendly Reminder: Proposal Request Form
Individuals serving as principal investigator on a CEHS-led proposal or co-investigator/collaborator on a grant proposal led by another college or external organization must submit a Proposal Request Form a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the proposal due date. Doing so ensures the timely routing of your proposal for review and approval by College administration, Central Sponsored Programs Administration (formerly known as University Research Services), Grants & Contracts Financial Administration, and, if required, University Research Compliance.
Please address any questions or concerns regarding the information contained below to the CEHS Sponsored Programs team: Kayley Watson (Kayley.Watson@okstate.edu), Samar Abid (SamarAA@okstate.edu), or Erin Brown (Erin.Brown10@okstate.edu).
Tip of the Month
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FREE Sponsored Programs Webinar: Cultivating Foundation Relationships
Free webinar!
Cultivating Foundation Relationships
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
from 11AM – 12PM Central Time
Online via ZoomThis webinar will explore some of the ways in which foundations are different from public grantmakers. What does the foundation application process look like, and how is it different from public grantmakers? How do you engage foundation staff, particularly with funders that don’t accept uninvited proposals, and how can your institution’s foundation support you in that process? What is stewardship, and why is it particularly important with foundations?
If you would like more information about this webinar, please contact Stephen Clarke or Kayley Watson.
For Your Information
- OSU Webpage for Guidance and News Related to Recent Executive Orders and Federal Actions
OSU’s Vice President for Research office has crafted a web page that includes internal communication, as well as helpful resource information from national associations (e.g., APLU’s Council on Research; Council on Government Relations) regarding the recent executive orders (and rescinding these orders).
https://research.okstate.edu/faculty-resources/guidance-executive-orders.html
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New Mileage Reimbursement Rate for 2025
The IRS announced an increase in the mileage reimbursement rate effective Jan. 1, 2025, to $0.70 per mile. This is an increase from the $0.67 IRS rate for 2024 (refer to Internal Revenue Notice 2024-312 released Dec. 19, 2024). All state agencies may use the IRS rate for travel incurred on and after Jan. 1, 2025.
The AIRS system will be programmed so that trips occurring on or after Jan. 1, 2025 will automatically apply the correct mileage rate.
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Proposed FY26 Fringe Rates have been posted
For fiscal year FY26 (effective 07/01/2025 – 06/30/2026), the following employee fringe rates have been proposed: https://adminfinance.okstate.edu/budget/fringe-benefit-rates.html
CEHS faculty generally fall under “General University” rates, but please note that when partnering with faculty/staff/students from the College of Agricultural Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, or other OSU campuses, the fringe rates applied are different.
All CEHS proposal budgets will automatically have the correct rates corresponding to the listed employee’s position. If you have a question about this on your budget, please let us know.
- GRA Tuition Remission on Externally Sponsored Programs
According to OSU policy 3-0421,
“All grant and contract writers shall include tuition waiver funding in all proposed budgets to prospective funding sources for GRAs working in support of the associated projects.”
Each year, the OSU calculates a “tuition remission rate” to be used in externally sponsored proposal budgets. The current FY25 GRA Tuition rate being applied to proposed budgets is 19.24%. This rate is automatically featured on your proposal budget template, which is set to calculate the amount for GRA tuition by multiplying the amount budgeted for the GRA’s monthly salary or stipend by the tuition remission rate relevant to the fiscal year.
Starting August 1, 2025, the FY26 rate of 18.63% will be used, effective through July 31, 2026.
The tuition remission rate must be included on all sponsored program budgets that propose funding for a GRA’s stipend, unless the sponsor disallows tuition as a budget item. In that case, according to OSU policy, “If a sponsor does not or will not support a GRA or the GRA is not assigned to a specific sponsor, the University will fund the tuition waivers for eligible GRA positions.”
Funding Opportunities
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[William T. Grant Foundation] Scholars Program
https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program
DEADLINE: July 1, 2025
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.
Focus Areas
- Reducing Inequality:
In this focus area, we fund research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins.
- Improving the Use of Research Evidence:
In this focus area, we support research on strategies focused on improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We want to know what it takes to get research used by decision-makers and what happens when research is used. We welcome studies that pursue one of these broad questions.
While an extensive body of knowledge provides a rich understanding of specific conditions that foster the use of research evidence, we lack robust, validated strategies for cultivating them. What is required to create structural and social conditions that support research use? What infrastructure is needed, and what will it look like? What supports and incentives foster research use? And, ultimately, how do youth outcomes fare when research evidence is used? This is where new research can make a difference.
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[Russell Sage Foundation] Future of Work
https://www.russellsage.org/research/funding/future-work
DEADLINE: July 16, 2025 (for required Letter of Inquiry)
The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on the Future of Work supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of changes in the quality of jobs for low- and moderately paid workers and their families in the U.S. We seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on employment, earnings, and job quality. We are especially interested in proposals that address questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers.
RSF prioritizes analyses that make use of newly available data or demonstrate novel uses of existing data. We support original data collection when a project is focused on important program priorities, projects that conduct survey or field experiments and qualitative studies. RSF encourages methodological variety and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Proposed projects must have well-developed conceptual frameworks and rigorous research designs. Analytical models must be well-specified and research methods must be appropriate.
RSF priorities do not include analyses of health or mental health outcomes or health behaviors as these are priorities for other funders. For the same reason, RSF seldom supports studies focused on educational processes or curricular issues but does prioritize analyses of inequalities in student achievement or educational attainment
The kinds of topics and questions of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work and Workers
- “The Big Shift”? Changes in Labor Force Participation and Increased Turnover During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Labor Market Power and Institutions
- Workforce Development, Training, and the 21st Century American Workplace
- Changes in Employer Practices and Alternative Work Arrangements
- Changing Economies, Changing Families and Policy Responses
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[National Science Foundation] Developmental Sciences (DS)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ds-developmental-sciences
DEADLINE: July 30, 2025
The Developmental Sciences program supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of perceptual, cognitive, social, emotional, language, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults (including aging populations), and non-human animals. The program also supports research investigating factors that affect developmental change, including family, peers, school, community, culture, media, physical, genetic, and epigenetic influences. The program funds research that incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-method, and/or longitudinal approaches; develops new methods, models, and theories for studying development; and integrates different processes (e.g., memory, emotion, perception, cognition), levels of analysis (e.g., behavioral, social, neural) and time scales. The program funds basic research that advances our understanding of developmental processes and mechanisms; the program does not fund clinical trials and research focused primarily on health outcomes.
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[NASPGHAN Foundation] CPNP Nutrition Research Grant
https://naspghan.org/research/naspghan-foundation-grants-2/
DEADLINE: July 1, 2025
Duration: 1 year
Amount: The NASPGHAN Foundation will award grants ranging from $500 to $5000
Description/Topics: This grant supports research activities that have the potential to advance nutrition care of patients and families of children with nutritional disorders.
CPNP applicant must:
- Be a Registered Dietitian with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and state licensure/certification as applicable.
- Be a full member of CPNP in good standing and maintain membership for the duration of the grant and research process.
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[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] Systems for Action: Community-Led Systems Research
to Address Systemic Racism
DEADLINE: June 4, 2025
This 2025 call for proposals (CFP) will provide funding for a new cohort of community-led pilot studies to produce new, actionable evidence about how to help medical, social, and public health systems work together to address forms of systemic racism. This CFP focuses specifically on systems alignment (SA) interventions that have the potential to dismantle or disrupt the health effects of systemic racism and to positively affect the health and wellbeing of communities that experience systemic racism. S4A prioritizes SA interventions that, if successful, can be rapidly replicated and spread to many communities and contexts across the U.S. in order to achieve broad national impact.
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[National Science Foundation] Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate
for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU)
DEADLINE: July 16, 2025
The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EDU is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public. In pursuit of this goal, IUSE: EDU supports projects that seek to bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, that adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices into STEM teaching and learning, and that lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. In addition to innovative work at the frontier of STEM education, this program also encourages replication of research studies at different types of institutions and with different student bodies to produce deeper knowledge about the effectiveness and transferability of findings.
IUSE: EDU also seeks to support projects that have high potential for broader societal impacts, including improved diversity of students and instructors participating in STEM education, professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques that meet the changing needs of students, and projects that promote institutional partnerships for collaborative research and development. IUSE: EDU especially welcomes proposals that will pair well with the efforts of NSF INCLUDES (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsfincludes/index.jsp) to develop STEM talent from all sectors and groups in our society.
For all the above objectives, the National Science Foundation invests primarily in evidence-based and knowledge-generating approaches to understand and improve STEM learning and learning environments, improve the diversity of STEM students and majors, and prepare STEM majors for the workforce. In addition to contributing to STEM education in the host institution(s), proposals should have the promise of adding more broadly to our understanding of effective teaching and learning practices.
The IUSE: EDU program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation.
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[Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood] Parenting Education, Early Childhood Welfare,
or Early Childhood Education and Play Grant
https://earlychildhoodfoundation.org/#program-guidelines
DEADLINE: May 31, 2025 (Letter of Intent)
The Foundation’s goal is to provide seed money to implement those imaginative proposals that exhibit the greatest chance of improving the lives of young children, on a national scale. Because of the Foundation’s limited funding capability, it seeks to maximize a grant's potential impact.
The Foundation provides funding in the following areas:
- Parenting Education: To help parents create nurturing environments for their children, we support programs that teach parents about developmental psychology, cultural child rearing differences, pedagogy, issues of health, prenatal care and diet, as well as programs which provide both cognitive and emotional support to parents.
- Early Childhood Welfare: Providing a safe and nurturing environment is essential as is imparting the skills of social living in a culturally diverse world. Therefore, the Foundation supports projects that seek to perfect child rearing practices and to identify models that can provide creative, caring environments in which all young children thrive.
- Early Childhood Education and Play: We seek to improve the quality of both early childhood teaching and learning, through the development of innovative curricula and research based pedagogical standards, as well as the design of imaginative play materials and learning environments.
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[National Institutes of Health] Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial
Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-25-007.html
DEADLINE: June 10, 2025
This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications from institutions/organizations that propose to establish core centers that are part of an integrated and existing program of nutrition and/or obesity research. The Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORC) program is designed to support and enhance the national research effort in nutrition and obesity. NORCs support three primary research-related activities: Research Core services, a Pilot and Feasibility (P and F) program, and an Enrichment program. All activities pursued by Nutrition Obesity Research Centers are designed to enhance the efficiency, productivity, effectiveness, and multidisciplinary nature of research in nutrition and obesity.
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[U.S. Department of Transportation] Safe Streets and Roads for All
https://www.transportation.gov/grants/SS4A
DEADLINE: June 26, 2025
The SS4A program supports the development of a comprehensive safety action plan (referred to as an “Action Plan”) that identifies the most significant roadway safety concerns in a community and the implementation of projects and strategies to address roadway safety issues. Action Plans are the foundation of the SS4A grant program.
SS4A requires an eligible Action Plan be in place before applying to implement projects and strategies.
The SS4A program provides funding for two types of grants: Planning and Demonstration Grants and Implementation Grants.
Planning and Demonstration Grants:
Planning and Demonstration Grants provide Federal funds to develop, complete, or supplement an Action Plan. The goal of an Action Plan is to develop a holistic, well-defined strategy to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries in a locality, Tribal area, or region.
Planning and Demonstration Grants also fund supplemental planning activities in support of an Action Plan and demonstration activities in support of an Action Plan.
Implementation Grants:
Implementation Grants provide Federal funds to implement projects and strategies identified in an Action Plan to address a roadway safety problem. Eligible projects and strategies can be infrastructural, behavioral, and/or operational activities.
Implementation Grants may also include supplemental planning and demonstration activities to inform an existing Action Plan, and project-level planning, design, and development activities.
Applicants must have an eligible comprehensive safety action plan (referred to as an “Action Plan”) to apply for an Implementation Grant.
New in FY24, potential Implementation Grant applicants could submit their Action Plan(s) for pre-application review so that USDOT may affirm their eligibility to apply for an Implementation Grant.