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Subscribe to ORP NewsEPA Updated General Terms and Conditions
Posted April 03, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency has updated the EPA General Terms and Conditions for fiscal year 2025. These changes are effective today, March 25, 2025, and are summarized below:
- Added a new “Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws” T&C (See T&C #54).
- Added a new termination provision to the “Termination” T&C (See T&C #3).
- Revised the “Utilization of Disadvantaged business Enterprises” T&C (See T&C #27) in accordance with the recent c...
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Hanover Research Current Webinar Series
Posted April 03, 2025
The Graduate School is piloting a partnership with Hanover Research to provide a suite of grant proposal development resources and prospecting support to SIUE faculty who are interested in pursuing external funding. These resources include grantsmanship training, identification of funding opportunities, proposal review and revision support, and more. This support is an expansion of current available resources in the Office of Research and Projects.
Below is a link to the webin...
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IIN Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grants
Posted April 03, 2025
The Illinois Innovation Network aims to advance collaborative research within the state with its Social Innovation and Impact seed grant program. Social Innovation and Impact grants can be used to pursue a wide variety of projects that directly affect lives, address critical social problems, and build trusted partnerships in a given community.
Submit your proposals for IIN Social Innovation and Impact seed grants by Friday, April 18! Social Innovation and Impact grants...
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Limited Submission: Illinois Arts Council (IAC) FY26 Creative Projects Grant
Posted April 03, 2025
Due to the limit on the number of applications by institutions, all SIUE faculty interested in submitting a proposal to the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) FY26 Creative Projects Grant must submit a letter of intent in Kuali Build no later than 4:30 pm on Monday, May 5, 2025.
About the Program
The IAC FY 26 Creative Project Grant was formerly known as the Creative Catalyst Grant. Creative Project Grant is a new IAC grant program that supports arts project and programming req...
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Applying for External Funding
Posted March 19, 2025
Do you have a project developed and want to find external funding or do you want to identify external funding and develop a project? Here are the steps to follow in working with Pre-Award staff in the Office of Research and Projects (ORP), to find those resources, and submit a successful proposal.
Step 1 – Contact the Office of Research and Projects Early and Often!
More information can be found on our Where to Start Pages and our Proposal Development Pages
Are you loo...
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Hanover Research Current Webinar Series
Posted March 19, 2025
The Graduate School is in partnership with Hanover Research to provide a suite of grant proposal development resources and prospecting support to SIUE faculty who are interested in pursuing external funding. These resources include grantsmanship training, identification of funding opportunities, proposal review and revision support, and more. This support is an expansion of current available resources in the Office of Research and Projects.
Below is a link to the webinar...
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IIN Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grants
Posted March 19, 2025
The Illinois Innovation Network aims to advance collaborative research within the state with its Social Innovation and Impact seed grant program. Social Innovation and Impact grants can be used to pursue a wide variety of projects that directly affect lives, address critical social problems, and build trusted partnerships in a given community.
Submit your proposals for IIN Social Innovation and Impact seed grants by Friday, April 18! Social Innovation and Impact grants can be ...
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New Faculty Incentive Program - Upcoming NFIP Luncheon
Posted March 19, 2025
The New Faculty Incentive Program (NFIP) is intended to jumpstart the scholarly activities of new tenure-track faculty while encouraging the pursuit of external sources of funding to support their scholarly agendas. This program will provide new faculty with an incentive award for submitting a proposal to an external sponsor.
The Office of Research and Projects will be hosting a luncheon for out New Faculty Incentive Participants in April – more information to come.
If ...
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Hanover Research Current Webinar Series
Posted March 12, 2025
The Graduate School is in partnership with Hanover Research to provide a suite of grant proposal development resources and prospecting support to SIUE faculty who are interested in pursuing external funding. These resources include grantsmanship training, identification of funding opportunities, proposal review and revision support, and more. This support is an expansion of current available resources in the Office of Research and Projects.
Below is a link to the webinar...
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IIN Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grants
Posted March 12, 2025
The Illinois Innovation Network aims to advance collaborative research within the state with its Social Innovation and Impact seed grant program. Social Innovation and Impact grants can be used to pursue a wide variety of projects that directly affect lives, address critical social problems, and build trusted partnerships in a given community.
Submit your proposals for IIN Social Innovation and Impact seed grants by Friday, April 18! Social Innovation and Impact grants can be ...
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NSF – Engineering Core Programs – From the Assistant Director for Engineering at NSF
Posted March 12, 2025
With the start of 2025, the U.S. National Science Foundation continues to support exciting engineering research and education projects that will power our economy and strengthen our nation's health and security.
In the past month, the NSF Directorate for Engineering (NSF ENG) has invested in new projects to advance semiconductors, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, manufacturing and more. This fiscal year we have already invested in groundbreaking ideas in 38 stat...
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One Week left to Apply - Illinois Arts Council Fiscal Year 2026 General Operating Support Grant Application
Posted March 12, 2025
This is a reminder that the Illinois Arts Council's (IAC) FY26 General Operating Support (GOS) with Youth Employment in the Arts (YEA) application deadline is Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 11:59 pm.
General Operating Support (GOS) Grants are available for Illinois non-profit organizations that provide ongoing arts programming. Optional Youth Employment in the Arts (YEA) Grants provide funds to GOS grantees for individuals between the ages of 14 and 22.
If your organization DI...
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Grants.gov Article: How to Determine Eligibility for Federal Funding Opportunities
Posted March 05, 2025
Disciplines: All
Determining your eligibility for federal grants is an important first step in the federal grant application process.
Funding opportunity eligibility requirements are defined by legislation and federal agency policies. To receive a grant, you must meet an opportunity’s eligibility requirements.
Here are some tips for finding federal funding opportunities for which you may be eligible:
- Know Your Applicant Entity Type
Are you a nonprofit organization? A township? A r...
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IACA - FY26 Creative Accelerator Fund
Posted March 05, 2025
The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) is thrilled to announce the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) award, offering a $10,000 taxable grant to support our vibrant creative workforce. To qualify, individual artists must demonstrate an active and sustained practice, be at least 21 years of age, be established as an Illinois resident, and not be currently enrolled full-time at a college or university in any undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral program.
Join us for...
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IIN Social Innovation and Impact Seed Grants
Posted March 05, 2025
The Illinois Innovation Network aims to advance collaborative research within the state with its Social Innovation and Impact seed grant program. Social Innovation and Impact grants can be used to pursue a wide variety of projects that directly affect lives, address critical social problems, and build trusted partnerships in a given community.
Submit your proposals for IIN Social Innovation and Impact seed grants by Friday, April 18! Social Innovation and Impact grants can be ...
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NEH - State and Impact of the Humanities
Posted March 05, 2025
NEH - State and Impact of the Humanities supports data-grounded research studies that investigate the state, impact, and value of the humanities in the United States. For the purposes of this program, the humanities are broadly defined as activities associated with exploring, interpreting, and preserving the diversity of human cultures, ideas, practices and experiences, past and present. See Section 2. Background for a more detailed legislative definition of the humanities.
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Hanover Research Current Webinar Series
Posted February 26, 2025
Disciplines: All
The Graduate School is piloting a partnership with Hanover Research to provide a suite of grant proposal development resources and prospecting support to SIUE faculty who are interested in pursuing external funding. These resources include grantsmanship training, identification of funding opportunities, proposal review and revision support, and more. This support is an expansion of current available resources in the Office of Research and Projects.
Below is a link to the...
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Illinois Arts Council Fiscal Year 2026 General Operating Support Grant Application
Posted February 26, 2025
Disciplines: All
The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) is pleased to announce the release of the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) General Operating Support (GOS) Grant, which includes optional application questions for IAC’s Youth Employment in the Arts (YEA) Grant. FY25 GOS grantees will complete a simplified continuing application as part of the GOS multi-year cycle. Applicants that did not receive FY25 GOS support are welcomed and encouraged to complete a full application for FY26 GOS.
The FY26...
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NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on The State and Impact of the Humanities
Posted February 26, 2025
NEH’s new “State and Impact of the Humanities” grant program, offered through the agency’s Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE), supports data-grounded research studies that investigate the state, impact, and value of the humanities in the United States.
The funding opportunity offers two levels of funding (up to $75,000 and $150,000) for research that seeks to understand the humanities in one or more of the following categories: Humanities E...
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SIUE Research Compliance Spring 2025 Newsletter
Posted February 26, 2025
Disciplines: All
SIUE Research Compliance Spring 2025 Newsletter
The ethical conduct of research and project implementation is everyone’s responsibility. In addition to upholding professional standards and university expectations, we are required to comply with mandates from the federal government, as well as funding sponsors. This website provides details regarding those requirements by compliance area, including optional and mandatory compliance education.
In this issue:
- IRB Protoc...
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