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Announcements

• CAREER Proposal Writing Series – This is a three-part, in-person writing series which will be held from 9 am to 12 pm on 3/26, 4/16, and 4/30. Each session will be held in the Hunt Library Research Commons (5th floor).
• Introduction to Research Data Repositories: Finding a Home for your Data
  • About This Workshop – Have you recently found yourself in the process of submitting a manuscript for publication, only to be confused by a request to upload your data to a repository for public access? Have you applied for grant funding that specifies data sharing as one of the terms of award?
  • This workshop will introduce the topic of data repositories – what they are, what they should be used for, and how to find an appropriate one for your data. We will also introduce the Dryad Data Repository, NC State’s local solution for data sharing.
  • Thursday, April 3, 2025 10:00am to 11:30am Online only
  • Link for more information and to register

• NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
  • The NC State guidelines and internal timeline for this opportunity is as follows. Please see the RDO NSF MRI webpage for more details.
  • Internal Letter of Intent (LOI) due to ORI: April 18, 2025
    • Must be submitted by the ADR/College Research Office or Core Facility Director.
    • Each college/unit determines its internal deadline. – Our internal deadline is April 11, 2025
    • ORI Internal pre-proposal deadline: May 9, 2025
      • Note: only those PIs listed on the internal LOI will be invited to submit a pre-proposal to ORI
    • Pre-proposal review and notification of internal selections: June 2025 
    • NSF final proposal deadline: October 16, 2025 – November 15, 2025

External RFPs

• ORAU – FY26 ORAU-Directed Research and Development (ODRD) Program
  • ODRD projects are joint collaborations between ORAU and university researchers, designed as seed projects to explore innovative ideas that can lead to new external funding opportunities. ORAU researchers lead the effort as Principal investigators and are responsible for initiating and proposing the project. Funding for awarded projects is shared between both parties, and projects must be completed in one year. The period of performance is October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026.
  • Member university personnel with active relationships with ORAU staff are encouraged to reach out directly to those staff to discuss the potential for an ODRD project. To facilitate new partnerships between ORAU and university researchers, we invite university faculty to submit a potential collaboration request at the following link: https://orausurvey.orau.org/n/fy26odrd.aspx.
  • ODRD Collaboration Requests Due: March 31, 2025

• Translation and Diffusion (TD), NSF 25-528
  • This solicitation addresses issues of translation and diffusion that arise in moving knowledge gained from fundamental learning and education research toward application in PreK-12 STEM classroom practice or leveraging knowledge derived from effective practice toward driving fundamental research. The first goal of this funding opportunity is to encourage the scientific study of theories, frameworks, and models for the translation and diffusion of knowledge, especially between fields and across contexts and levels-of-analysis (e.g., biological to cognitive/socio-emotional to behavioral; individual to classroom to broader demographic variables; lab to classroom to school to district). The second goal is to advance or move specific practice, research or scientific discovery in STEM education reciprocally along the research-practice continuum.
  • Application Deadline: April 1, 2025

• NIIMBL – Resilient and Flexible Supply Chain Workshop
  • NIIMBL and CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute, have partnered with support from the Gates Foundation to explore developing and implementing a Supply Chain Data Exchange framework leveraging CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing Supply Chain model. To begin the project, we are looking for representatives from large biopharmaceutical companies, suppliers, academia, and other supply chain experts to participate in a 2.5-hour virtual workshop.
  • To learn more about this initiative, please review the flyer.
  • Date: April 11, 2025, from 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. ET

• State and Impact of the Humanities
  • The State and Impact of the Humanities program aims to expand our understanding of the role that the humanities play in private, public, and scholarly life by supporting data-grounded research studies that investigate the state, impact, and value of the humanities in the United States. This program will fund research that helps us better understand how and why the humanities matter, and how we can build a stronger, more impactful humanities.
  • Application Deadline: April 16, 2025

• NSF – Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI),NSF 25-534
  • Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF program seeking to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral or economic sciences, deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific focal infrastructure.
  • Application Deadline: April 17, 2025

• Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI),NSF 25-534
  • Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF program seeking to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral or economic sciences, deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific focal infrastructure.
  • Application Deadline: April 17, 2025

• NEH – Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities
  • Humanities Initiatives grants can help strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at colleges and universities by supporting the development of new or improvement of existing humanities programs, educational resources, or coursework. Projects must address a core topic or focused set of themes drawn from humanities areas such as history, philosophy, religion, languages and literature, or humanities-informed composition and writing skills.
  • Application Deadline: May 6, 2025

• 2025 William T. Grant Scholars Program
  • 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. The Foundation’s mission is to support research to improve the lives of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We pursue this mission by supporting research within two focus areas. Researchers interested in applying for a William T. Grant Scholars Award must select one focus area: (please see RFP for details)
  • Reducing Inequality
  • Improving the Use of Research Evidence
  • Eligibility:
  • Applicants must have received their terminal degree within seven years of submitting their application. We calculate this by adding seven years to the date the doctoral degree was conferred. In medicine, the seven-year maximum is dated from the completion of the first residency.
  • Applicants must be employed in career-ladder positions. For many applicants, this means holding a tenure-track position in a university.
  • Applicants propose one to two mentors for the first two years of the award. Each proposed mentor must submit a letter. Mentor letters are not recommendations, and applicants should discourage cursory letters of support.
  • Three letters of recommendation must be submitted from colleagues, supervisors, or the department/division chairperson who nominates the applicant, respectively. Proposed mentors may not submit recommendation letters.
  • Click here for: Full Application Guide
  • Please Note: NC State may submit one nomination per college
  • Internal NOI Due: March 6, 2025 by 5 p.m. Submit NOI Here»
  • Key Sponsor Dates:
  • Application Deadline: July 1, 2025, 3 p.m. EST

• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
  • For more information, visit the Office for Faculty Excellence’s Fulbright U.S. Scholar page.
  • The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding.

• NC TraCS Clinical and Translational SCIENCE (CTS) Pilot Program
  • NC TraCS is seeking proposals that focus on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational research process, with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.
  • The NC TraCS Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Pilot Program supports investigation focused on developing, demonstrating, and disseminating scientific and operational innovations that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical translation—from identification to first-in-human studies to medical practice implementation to community health dissemination—so that advances can be applied to research on any target or disease.
  • To ensure that the proposed work is as responsive as possible to the goals of the CTS Pilot Program, prospective applicants are required to meet with Pilot Program staff to discuss their project prior to submission. Staff can advise on how to best present the translational science problem to be addressed, the general methodological approach, and whether any TraCS services might be useful. Applicants can request a Pilot Program consult through the Submit a Request page on the TraCS website.
  • FAQ Sessions: April 24, 2025 register here | April 29, 2025 register here
  • Application Deadline: July 8, 2025

• Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet),  NSF 23-619
  • The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations program (AccelNet) values cooperation over competition. Program goals are to 1) leverage prior NSF support for building research capacity towards activities that launch international research network of networks (NoN) that will lead to an accelerated advancement of an area of science after the award period and 2) recruit and foster a diverse and internationally competent US-based workforce trained in conducting and leading multi-team international collaboration. Any area funded by the National Science Foundation is eligible, particularly those addressing grand research challenges identified within research communities and/or by NSF.
  • Application Deadline: Sept. 15, 2025

Important Dates

SREE & Honorary Awards

The College of Design has a Scholarship, Research, Extension and Engagement (SREE) Committee consisting of four faculty on two-year appointments. This committee serves as an advisor to the Associate Dean for Research, Doctoral Programs and Global Engagement on research, extension, and engagement-related scholarly efforts and administration. Two faculty members who serve on the University Research Committee also coordinate and provide input to the Associate Dean of Research, Doctoral Programs and Global Engagement on a regular basis.

Current SREE Committee Members:

• Wayne Place (Architecture)
• Andrew Fox (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning/CDDL))
• Matthew Peterson (Graphic Design and Industrial Design)
• Andres Tellez (Media Arts and Design Technology)

University Research Committee College of Design Faculty Representatives:

• Deborah Littlejohn (Graphic Design and Industrial Design)
• Gavin Smith (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)

FY ’24 SREE AWARD RECIPIENTS:

We are excited to announce the winners of the inaugural Scholarship, Research, Extension, and Engagement (SREE) Awards. We received five nominations from our department heads, each showcasing significant dedication and contributions to the doctoral programs and their respective fields.

Scholarship and Research Award: Prof. Traci Rider

Extension and Engagement Award: Prof. Kofi Boone

Recent Funded Research Awards

Faculty Member	Agency	Award Amount	Award Title
Prof. Andy Fox	NC Dept. of Public Safety	$1,000,000	Eastern NC Community Floodprints: Accelerating Rural Recovery & Resilience
Prof. Carla Delcambre	NC Division of Parks and Rec (NCDPR)	$150,000	NC State Parks | Design Strategies Study: Phase One
Prof. Robin Moore	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	$133,336	Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Division Natural Play and Learning Development Program
Prof. Nilda Cosco	NC Department of Health and Human Services	$658,195	Relaunching & Extending a Supportive Network for Naturalized Outdoor Play and Learning Environments for North Carolina Child Care Facilities
Travis Klondike	Town of Pollocksville	$48,958	Main Street Building Elevations and Floodproofing

Current Select Funded Research Projects

*For full list of awards, please contact the College Research Office. A select list of funded projects are listed below:

Project Title: The Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) Support for Obesity Prevention

Lead PI: Nilda Cosco

Abstract – Secure technical, professional and scientific subject matter expertise for tasks that support and advance the work of DNPAO and its staff in knowledge of effective responses to obesity and promoting health equity among groups experiencing high risk factors for obesity.

Project Title: MOU AND INTERAGENCY SERVICES AGREEMENT between the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Rural Economic Development Division, and the Initiative for Community Growth and Development at NC State University

Lead PI: Carla Delcambre

Abstract –  The Initiative will provide landscape architecture design study and related support to local governments engaged in the CORE program (CORE communities). Design study and projects may vary in scale and complexity, depending on communities’ needs. The Initiative will customize its approach to projects accordingly.

Project Title: Warren County Outdoor Play and Learning Environments

Lead PI: Robin Moore

Abstract – In collaboration with Halifax Warren Smart Start Partnership for Children (HWSS), the Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) will offer professional development, design assistance, and technical support for implementation to support incremental development of two Warren County childcare center sites following the Preventing Obesity by Design POD Model. Selected childcare centers will work collaboratively with NLI to create schematic designs and improve their outdoor play and learning environment using seed grant funding offered by HWSS.

Project Title: Goldsboro Floodprint: Big Ditch Stream Restoration and Infrastructure Improvements

Lead PI: Travis Klondike

Abstract – Technical assistance and project management for “phase one” deliverables associated with the restoration of Big Ditch in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The scope of work will provide the City of Goldsboro and FEMA with the technical body of information necessary to support project feasibility and cost-effectiveness prior to the release of a “phase two” award for construction.

Project Title: Seeding Resilience in Princeville II: Community-driven Adaptation to Climate

Lead PI: Andrew Fox

Abstract – “Seeding Resilience” will convert vacant town-owned parcels to green infrastructure and community gardens. It will also employ local youth to build a recreational trail adjacent to a new farmers market in a park adjacent to the Tar River. This project is part of an ongoing, multi-faceted resilience engagement with and for the Town of Princeville, NC, the nation’s first town chartered by African Americans following emancipation. Princeville has been subject to repeated devastating floods. In this proposal, project partners build on their history of learning and cooperation with the residents of Princeville to implement a second round of community enhancements aimed at increasing resilience of property and people. The project incorporates lessons from initial collaborations that established overarching goals for the partnership: follow community-driven decision-making at every stage; move decisively from planning to implementation; build local knowledge and economic opportunity; and develop replicable strategies that address community environmental, economic, and social needs.

Research Initiatives and Labs

Our applied research guides key policymakers and informs how communities and products are designed. And compelling design methods like data visualization and virtual reality tech help bring important concepts to a wider audience.

Partner With Us

We’re always looking for unique partnerships in alignment with faculty expertise and partner interest. Through our work, we empower industries, government agencies and communities across the state, region, and the nation by applying smart, sustainable solutions in response to grand challenges.

For partnerships and further inquiries, please contact Soolyeon Cho, Associate Dean of Research, Doctoral Programs and Global Engagement at soolyeon.cho@ncsu.edu.