NSF Spring Grants Conference

The National Science Foundation has sent out a 'Save the Date' for their always popular Spring Grants Conference. It will be held at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center on June 4th and 5th. The registration will open on March 15th at 12pm EST at this link: NSF Spring 2018 Grants Conference.

A Note about the Government Shutdown

As with the previous shutdown a few years ago, many federal funders have temporarily dismissed their "non-essential" employees and some have blacked out their websites. While the Feds are staffed by skeleton crews, many grant-related tasks will not be undertaken: awards may be delayed; Fordham will not be able to draw down funds; proposal deadlines will be pushed back indefinitely; program officers and grant management staff will not answer phone calls or respond to emails. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to your OSP contact. We're here to get you through this.

Additionally, here is a list of contingency plans submitted by Federal agencies to the Office of Budget and Management.

NIH's 'All of Us' is looking for research topics

The NIH's 'All of Us' program looks to create a diverse database of more than one million people across the country willing to share information about their health, habits and the conditions where they live. Anyone can sign up! And now the NIH is looking to researchers to provide them with ideas about what topics are most important to study. You can submit your research ideas and questions at the All of Us Research Priorities website: https://allofusresearchpriorities.ideascale.com/. What do YOU think is the most important medical research we should be using this database for? The submission window is open until February 9th, 2018.

NEH upcoming grant deadlines

As recently as late Fall, it was not clear that the National Endowment for the Humanities would be able to issue grant announcements for the Spring (see: "NEH Head Says Humanities Funding Still a Question Mark," NET News, October 20, 2017).
We're happy to share the NEH's announcement of upcoming grant competitions, including some which may be of particular interest to Fordham faculty:

• NEH Public Scholar (due 2/7/18)

• Summer Seminars and Institutes (due 2/22/18)

• NEH/Melon Fellowships for Digital Publication (due 4/11/18)

• NEH Fellowships (due 4/11/18)

• Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (two deadines: 1/16/18 and sometime in June)

More information about these and other opportunities may be found on the NEH website: https://www.neh.gov/grants.

History of Medicine lecture series

The US National Library of Medicine announces its History of Medicine Lecture Series for 2018, kicking off on January 29th. Lectures are held at 11am on the National Institutes of Health campus, and are free, but to insure adequate space attendees are requested to register for the lectures. If you can't make it in person, the lectures are also live-streamed, and archived for later watching. Lectures include:

• Theresa MacPhail, PhD, Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Evolution of Viral Networks: H1N1, Ebola, and Zika;

• A Conversation about Graphic Medicine, a special program in conjunction with Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn, a new NLM special display, traveling banner exhibition, and online exhibition launching soon;

• Trevor Owens, Head of Digital Content Management, Library of Congress, Scientists' Hard Drives, Databases, and Blogs: Preservation Intent and Source Criticism in the Digital History of Science, Technology and Medicine;

• Heidi Morefield, MSc, 2017 NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine, Doctoral student, Department of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Transplanting Technology: Dr. Michael DeBakey and Cold War Technology Transfer;

• David S. Jones, MD, PhD, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Making the Case for History in Medical Education

For more information on the lecture series, check out NLM's announcement here.

2017 NSF Fall Grants Conference webcasts available

The NSF Grants Conferences are always popular events that can't accommodate everyone that wants to attend; thankfully they've posted the videos from the conference proceedings so everyone has a chance to learn. Visit the NSF Resource Center to view the videos.

Big Data training and symposium

The Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) and Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) programs, both initiatives of the NIH Common Fund, announce their 2018 Summer Research Training Program in Biomedical Big Data Science. This is a research intensive, ten-week training for undergraduate and graduate students starting June 4, 2018. Applications are due on February 1st. For more information on how to apply, and to see past training fellows and their research projects, see the Training and Outreach page of the BD2K-LINCS website.

BD2K-LINCS also announces the 2018 Data Science Symposium, January 31-February 2, 2018, in sunny Miami, Florida. This year's topic is "Studying Systems Biology by Cellular Perturbations". For more information on the symposium, see their News and Events page.