2025 IEE Seed Grant Program accepting energy, environmental project proposals
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Proposals are now being accepted for Penn State's Institute of Energy and the Environment’s (IEE) 2025 Seed Grant Program. All proposals must align with at least one of IEE’s research themes: climate and natural systems; health and the environment; integrated energy systems;…
Berks faculty receive grant to advance equity for underrepresented STEM students
Student innovation competitions, exhibitions and training programs are a crucial part of the university environment because they provide students with valuable experience that isn’t always achieved in the classroom. Researchers from Penn State Berks and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical…
Center for Socially Responsible AI invites seed funding proposals
Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) invites short proposals for its annual seed funding program. Applications will be accepted through Nov. 1, with projects expected to start in spring 2024 and last up to two years. Complete details on the program…
Penn State Berks faculty receive inter-institutional research seed grant
With approximately 12% of the population in Berks and Schuylkill Counties living in poverty, food banks are a critical resource for those who face hunger issues. Penn State Berks faculty are collaborating with faculty at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) to improve…
SSRI Seed Funding now open
SSRI invites proposals for its seed funding mechanisms to provide research support for investigators from diverse fields in the social and behavioral sciences. SSRI funding opportunities also help support research collaborations across disciplinary boundaries, colleges, and research centers. SSRI…
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Global Social Science Research Impact Grants
Through a partnership between the Center for Global Studies and the Social Science Research Institute, Global Social Science Research Impact Grants support tenured and tenure-track social science faculty at University Park with a grant of up to $5,000 to advance global social science…
Clinical and Translational Science Institute awards six pilot grants
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is helping to generate innovative health research ideas and promote collaboration through the awarding of pilot grants in its Bridges to Translation program. The institute has awarded $250,000, with co-sponsorship from the …
Vowel intelligibility testing may help monitor progression for people with ALS
Approximately 31,000 people are living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the United States, with an average of 5,000 new cases every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive…
Consortium to present seed grant recipients
Penn State’s Consortium on Moral Decision-Making will be hosting an event on April 19 at 2 p.m. for seed grant recipients to present their planned research. The event will take place in Moore Building room 130 and on Zoom. The seed grant program supports faculty researchers in initiating and…
News Topics: Consortium on Moral Decision-MakingSeed Funding
$3.1M NIH grant to fund project developing ALS communications interventions
A team of Penn State researchers was recently awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate clinical interventions to improve speech communications for people diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. The progressive…
Obesity research seed grant now available
Penn State’s Center for Childhood Obesity Research (CCOR) in collaboration with the Social Sciences Research Institute (SSRI) announces the Interdisciplinary Obesity Research Seed Grant Program to fund innovative, interdisciplinary research related to obesity and obesity-related health outcomes…
Inter-Institutional Program for Diversifying Research (IPDR) opens call for proposals
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences in collaboration with the Social Science Research Institute, Materials Research Institute, the Institute of Energy and the Environment, the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and…
Consortium on Moral Decision-Making Call for Seed Grants
The Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is seeking proposals for seed grants to support interdisciplinary research related to the conceptual and empirical study of human morality and ethical decision-making. How do people decide whether to help or harm others, whom to trust and cooperate with, and…
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SSRI funding open to all Penn State campuses
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute invites tenure-line faculty at all Penn State campuses to apply for its 2024-25 Mentored Early Career Faculty Fellows Program. The Faculty Fellows program supports tenure line faculty at the rank of assistant professor who are interested in…
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Seed grants fund research collaborations with minority-serving institutions
The first awardees of Penn State’s new Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research (IDPR) initiative have been selected, comprising a total of 16 collaborative projects that connect Penn State researchers with colleagues from minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The IPDR program,…
News Topics: Seed FundingRacial and Ethnic Minorities