Please see below regarding upcoming Spring Research Development Office events and programs. Please share widely.

Seminars and Workshops

Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators – January 24

Learn to maximize your spent searching for funding opportunities and project collaborators by using Pivot to save time and effort. Register here.

OVPR DEI Supplements and OVPR DEI Team Awards Info Session – January 25

Learn about the OVPR DEI Supplements and OVPR DEI Team Awards (due March 1 and April 3, respectively) awards during an interactive session featuring past awardees and program staff. Register here.

Broader Impacts/Research Impacts Seminars – February/March

The Training Team from ARIS will conduct five interactive virtual sessions with strategies for addressing not only NSF’s broader impacts criteria but research impacts, broadly. 

• Session 1: Broader Impacts 101 (Feb. 3 @ 9-11am) - This activity-based workshop will cover the history of the BI criterion, provide strategies for conceptualizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating BI activities, and share tips on leveraging existing resources and establishing robust partnerships to build your “BI identity.”
• Session 2: Broader Impact Evaluation/Broadening Participation (Feb. 17 @ 9-11am) - This session will explore broadening participation activities, why they are a priority for the NSF, and how to plan, implement, and assess them successfully. Several specific examples will be presented and discussed.
• Session 3: NSF CAREER Awards (March 3 @ 9-11am) - This session will focus on strategies for developing a competitive NSF CAREER Award, with emphasis on the broader impacts and education plan.
• Session 4: Broader Impacts Partnerships (March 17 @ 9-11am) - This session will explore aspects such as where do you go to find a good BI partner? What are the elements of a successful partnership? And how can you ensure that the relationship is mutually beneficial for both members of the partnership? These and other questions will be explored in this interactive session.
• Session 5: Broader Impacts Identity (March 31 @ 9-11am) - This interactive workshop will introduce the concept of a broader impacts identity and walk investigators through a process for starting to define BI identity. While any researcher is likely to benefit from this workshop, it is particularly relevant to early-career researchers.

Register here for one or all the sessions.  

Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) Application Information Session – February 10

This session will share information on about the Office of the Vice President for Research’s AHI program. You will learn about AHI, hear from past reviewers, and have your questions answered. Register here by February 8.

OVPR Community Engaged Scholars Workshop: Pitch Your Proposal – February 17

This workshop hosted by the Office of Community Engagement and RDO will provide participants with an opportunity to workshop their ideas for a community-engaged research project, pitch their proposal concepts and receive constructive feedback. Register here.

Seed Funding Opportunities

OVPR Community Engaged Scholars – February 3 (LOI Deadline); April 14 (Full Application Deadline)

Awards up to $50k to assist in creating and solidifying community research and scholarship partnerships within Iowa. The goal is to enable and sustain community engaged research and scholarship partnerships that reciprocally benefit the University and Iowa communities. See the RFP here.

OVPR DEI Supplements – March 1

Awards up to $25k to advance science while recruiting, retaining, and advancing UI students who support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in research, with a preference for students from traditionally marginalized groups. PIs should advance the aims of their externally funded award’s science while engaging these students in mentored research and training experiences that prepare them to excel as next generation researchers and scholars. See the RFP here.

OVPR DEI Team Awards – April 3

Awards up to $25k to support disciplinary teams consisting of multiple investigators working with a collection of undergraduates with a preference for students from traditionally marginalized groups. The goals are to engage these students in mentored research and training experiences that prepare them to excel as next generation researchers and scholars. See the RFP here.