Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration

East Tennessee State University

Funding Opportunities

 

R15 Important 2021 Change in Eligibility Information

 

SPIN Funding Database

ETSU's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has transitioned to the use of SPIN

  • SPIN provides over 40,000 opportunities from more than 10,000 global sponsors.
  • SPIN offers active searching, automated opportunity matching, and daily opportunity notifications.
Request a SPIN profile 

For more information about SPIN, please contact Lindsay Keitzer at keitzer@etsu.edu or 439-6048.

Funding Insights Dashboard by ExLibris

Take advantage of this free-to-access website to view a quarterly snapshot of the global funding landscape and trends.  View funding opportunity dollars based on country, discipline, top funders, and funding type.

Grants.gov

  • Clearinghouse of all federal funding opportunities.
  • Use Grants.gov Search Tips to find federal grants that align with your work.

Philanthropy News Digest

Site for non-profits and foundations to post funding opportunities.

GuideStar

GuideStar offers the most complete, up-to-date nonprofit data available. 

LaunchTN Microgrant Program

LaunchTN offers grant-writing support for Entrepreneurial Researchers interested in seeking SBIR/STTR funding for their Tennessee-based, early-stage companies.  The TN Microgrant Program provides up to $6,000 for companies to engage grant writing help on SBIR/STTR applications.

NEH Summer Stipends

Funding for Humanities Projects - internal deadline August 27, 2021.
Sponsor Deadline is September 22, 2021.

To be considered for a NEH Summer Stipend fill out the Nomination Request form and submit it to research@etsu.edu by 4:30 on Friday, August 27. 

 

ETSU Funding Programs

ETSU offers internal funding programs for research and scholarly activities. Details about these opportunities can be found on ORSPA's Internal Funding Opportunities webpage, and include:

 

2021-2022 Faculty Research Mentoring Cohort Program

The ETSU Faculty Research Mentoring Cohort is accepting proposals for the 2021-2022 academic year in partnership with the Office of Planning and Decision Support, the Provost’s Office, and the Applied Social Research Laboratory. The goal of this microgrant/mentoring program is to develop a research community to support faculty research design knowledge, skills and abilities. The program will support a select group of ETSU faculty in designing and implementing systematic, rigorous research investigations. The deadline for applying is May 31, 2021.

For proposal guidelines, visit: https://www.etsu.edu/cas/sociology/asrl/ 

ETSU Crowdfunding

ETSU supports crowdfunding campaigns for as many as 10 scholarly projects at any given time.  Projects may be proposed by Faculty, Staff or Students.  Scholarly projects within any academic discipline supported at ETSU may be considered.

Announcements

Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) 

“A federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.”

Sponsor Deadline is December 4, 2020

NIH R15 Eligibility 

NIH restricts eligibility for R15 awards to institutions that receive less than $6M/year in NIH funding in 4 of the last 7 years; calculated on an institution-wide (total) basis for REAP awards to health professional colleges and calculated college-wide for AREA awards to non-professional biomedical sciences colleges.

ETSU has enjoyed many years of NIH REAP eligibility, receiving more than $7M in total NIH funding in 2020 and more than $6M in 2019 and 2018. Given this level of success, we expect to surpass $6M in total NIH awards again in 2021, making ETSU health sciences faculty ineligible for at least 4 years. The last date we will be eligible to submit REAP R15 applications will be for the June 25, 2021 deadline.

At this time, faculty in the non-professional colleges, including Arts and Sciences, remain eligible for R15 AREA awards as ETSU has not yet reached the $6M/year threshold for even one of the required 4 of 7 years.

Please contact ORSPA if you have any questions.

Click here to view a Quick Guide to the 2019 Changes to NIH R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) Program

STEM Graduate Fellowship & Postdoc Positions Available

The Institute for Broadening Participation maintains a database of available fellowship and postdoc positions.
The database includes openings with NSF, NASA, NIH, and more!

  • 29 Masters Level Fellowships
  • 32 Doctoral Level Fellowships
  • 25 Postdoc Positions. 

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