Events

Ready to move from learning about funding to working on your funding goals? The Funding Lab is an interactive virtual working session that provides participants with real-time guidance on funding opportunities, proposal development, and grant-related questions. Building on the Find It, Fit It, Fund It webinar series, this session allows participants to bring their own research ideas, funding opportunities, proposal materials, or specific questions to receive targeted feedback and support. Whether you are searching for the right funding opportunity, assessing whether your project aligns with a solicitation, or working to strengthen a proposal in development, the Funding Lab is designed to help you identify challenges, refine your approach, and determine actionable next steps. Participants are encouraged to submit questions and relevant materials in advance so facilitators can tailor the session to the group's needs. You do not need a completed proposal to participate. Presenter(s): Dr. Jehnae Linkins and Shadei Laird Register

Finding Non-federal Funding Opportunities that Align with Your Research Agenda explores strategies for identifying and securing non-federal funding opportunities that align with your research agenda in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing federal funding landscape. The presentation will highlight alternative pathways such as philanthropic foundations, state-level agencies, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations. Participants will learn practical approaches for matching their research interests with funder priorities while maintaining the integrity and impact of their work. The session will also include tips for building sustainable funding pipelines and positioning research for broader community and institutional support. This webinar is part of the series: Capacity Building for Applied STEM Education and Behavioral Sciences Research. Presenter(s): Toni Dancstep, Toya Frank, Naomi Hall-Byers, and Tori Smith. Register

Data are transforming nearly every aspect of higher education, scientific discovery, healthcare, and workforce development. Yet many educators, researchers, and institutional leaders have had little formal preparation in applying data science to their teaching, scholarship, program evaluation, or strategic decision-making. Data to Impact is a four-part professional development series designed to build practical data science capacity among faculty, researchers, administrators, and education leaders. Rather than focusing solely on programming or advanced analytics, the series demonstrates how data science can become a powerful tool for solving real-world problems, strengthening research, improving student outcomes, informing institutional decisions, and increasing competitiveness for grants and partnerships. Through interactive webinars, participants will progress from foundational concepts to real-world applications in STEM, education, research administration and institutional leadership. By the end of the series, participants will leave with practical tools, new perspectives and an action plan for applying data science within their own disciplines and organizations. Presenter(s): Amaka Nwankwo Register

Please join us for this interactive workshop to start or continue your experience utilizing AI. Attendees will set up and begin using Claude AI in this 90-minute workshop. ​After setting up Claude AI accounts, attendees will be guided to draft an AI transformed syllabus using Claude AI. Attendees should bring the following to this workshop: ​ AI policies/statements/guidance from their (1) department, (2) university, and/or (3) disciplinary professional societies or accrediting organizations (see examples below) ​ A current course syllabus as well as specific assignments ready for AI enhancement ​ Determination of which real time assessment (Start First Rule or Critique AI Output) you will integrate into your course​ Presenter(s): Frances Carter-Johnson and James Smith Register

Following a previous webinar on the basics of using the NSF resources for award management, this webinar delves into other post-award requirements and considerations addressed in Part II of the PAPPG including recipient standards and award disputes. This webinar is part of a series of webinars addressing how to navigate resources available from NSF from proposal preparation to awards management. Presenter (s): Sharmini Pitter Boghos and Jennifer Riehl Register

Data are transforming nearly every aspect of higher education, scientific discovery, healthcare, and workforce development. Yet many educators, researchers, and institutional leaders have had little formal preparation in applying data science to their teaching, scholarship, program evaluation, or strategic decision-making. Data to Impact is a four-part professional development series designed to build practical data science capacity among faculty, researchers, administrators, and education leaders. Rather than focusing solely on programming or advanced analytics, the series demonstrates how data science can become a powerful tool for solving real-world problems, strengthening research, improving student outcomes, informing institutional decisions, and increasing competitiveness for grants and partnerships. Through interactive webinars, participants will progress from foundational concepts to real-world applications in STEM, education, research administration, and institutional leadership. By the end of the series, participants will leave with practical tools, new perspectives and an action plan for applying data science within their own disciplines and organizations. Presenter(s): Amaka Nwankwo Register

NSF’s Data Management Sharing Plan Tool Demonstration: In complementation to the two-part “Developing supplementary proposal documents” workshop hosted by Drs. Carrie Hall and Christopher Atchison, this webinar focuses on the importance of a well thought out Data and Management Sharing Plan. In this session we will demonstrate how to use the new Data Management and Sharing Plan tool and participants will be given the option to follow along and build their own Data Management and Sharing Plan. Pre-session preparation instructions will be sent to all registrants approximately one week before the meeting. Presenter(s): Jennifer Riehl and Sharmini Pitter Boghos Register

Funding opportunities for Research Infrastructure Building explores funding opportunities that help institutions build the research infrastructure necessary to advance research and education goals. This webinar will include aspects of research infrastructure such as IRB review, data collection and analysis platforms that work across multiple institutions, and data storage approaches, as well as physical infrastructure, given that many funding opportunities limit or disallow equipment expenditures. Presenters will share opportunities and lessons learned to enhance research capacity through infrastructure. This webinar is part of the series: Capacity Building for Applied STEM Education and Behavioral Sciences Research. Presenter(s): Toni Dancstep, Toya Frank, Naomi Hall-Byers, and Tori Smith. Register

Series Recap and Discussion: Writing a Compelling Research Proposal for Funding Join us for the culminating session of the Capacity Building for Applied STEM Education & Behavioral Sciences Research series. This interactive session will provide a brief recap of the initial guiding webinar from the series—Writing a Compelling Research Proposal for Funding—followed by facilitated breakout rooms to answer your most urgent questions and delve into discussion to learn together. Breakout groups will respond to participants' interests, focusing on topics for improving researching capacity and proposals by: Leveraging collaborations; Harnessing literature; Aligning research questions and methods; Establishing outcomes and evaluation; and/or Finding funding opportunities. Presenter(s): Toni Dancstep, Toya Frank, Naomi Hall-Byers, and Tori Smith Register