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AWS Mechanical Turk (MTurk) will close on September 30, 2026. MTurk is a “crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually.” Some of those jobs included research and surveys.

If you have an approved protocol that currently uses Amazon MTurk, please check out these FAQs to prepare for the closure. If you’ll be continuing your re...

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The Graduate School is seeking applications for the Distinguished Research Professor award. The Distinguished Research Professor rank recognizes faculty members who have made an outstanding contribution to research or creative activities as a result of their continued commitment to scholarship beyond the period of their promotion to Professor. Recipients of the Award will be recognized with the rank of "SIUE Distinguished Research Professor" for the duration of their tenure a...

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Some external funding programs limit the number of submissions from an institution (this could be letter of intent (LOI) or full submission).   When this is the case the university must decide which proposals will go forward and an internal competition is held. To facilitate a fair decision-making process, faculty/staff who wish to apply to a limited submission funding opportunity, prior to submitting an LOI (if required) or submitting a full proposal must notify OR...

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The search for grants eats up hours that could go toward applying, creating art, or running arts programs. It shouldn’t be this hard.

That's why Arts Midwest built the Arts Funding Finder, the newest addition to their online resources for artists and arts organizations, made possible by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Program.  Their new tool helps Midwestern creatives and arts organizations explore grants and research funders, cutting throug...

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The Graduate School now provides university-wide access to Pivot-RP, a comprehensive database of funding opportunities and an expertise database to help you identify potential collaborators across SIUE and at institutions worldwide. This database enables quick and easy access to funding opportunities aligned with your areas of expertise, and also enables automated funding alerts tailored to their interests.

Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding...

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The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (NSF MPS) has published five new funding opportunities supporting foundational research in astronomical sciences, chemistry, materials research, mathematical sciences and physics.

The five funding opportunities collectively span more than 40 research programs supported by NSF MPS. Each funding opportunity includes multiple foundational research programs grouped as follows:

• MPS Astronom...

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The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

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About the series

Monthly virtual office webinars will focus on updates from the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences that may be of interest to the biological sciences research community.

Upcoming webinars

Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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The Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a SIUE faculty member in order to recognize the role of interdependence of research/scholarship and teaching. The Award confirms SIUE's belief that an individual must be a good scholar to be a good teacher.

The Paul Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A certificate and a $5...

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In August it was communicated the Representing Research Impacts Competition (formerly known as Visualizing Research Impacts-VRI) would occur October.  It has been decided the program will not be available in FY2027.  We apologize for any confusion this has caused.

Any questions concerning this program may be directed to the Graduate School at siueresearch@siue.edu.

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The Graduate School is seeking applications for the Distinguished Research Professor award. The Distinguished Research Professor rank recognizes faculty members who have made an outstanding contribution to research or creative activities as a result of their continued commitment to scholarship beyond the period of their promotion to Professor. Recipients of the Award will be recognized with the rank of "SIUE Distinguished Research Professor" for the duration of their tenure a...

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The IAC FY 27 Creative Project Grant was formerly known as the Creative Catalyst Grant. Creative Project Grant is an IAC grant program that supports arts project and programming requests from individuals, 501(c)(3) organizations, units of government (i.e., schools, parks, and libraries, etc.) or institutions of higher education. The general premise is that IAC no longer sets parameters for arts projects, but applicants drive what arts projects need funding. IAC...

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The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (NSF MPS) has published five new funding opportunities supporting foundational research in astronomical sciences, chemistry, materials research, mathematical sciences and physics.

The five funding opportunities collectively span more than 40 research programs supported by NSF MPS. Each funding opportunity includes multiple foundational research programs grouped as follows:

• MPS Astronom...

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The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

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About the series

Monthly virtual office webinars will focus on updates from the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences that may be of interest to the biological sciences research community.

Upcoming webinars

Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Due to the limited number of applications allowed by institutions, all SIUE faculty interested in submitting an NSF MRI proposal for the 2026-2027 award cycle must submit a letter of intent in Kuali Build no later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

About the Program

The National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Grant (MRI) Program accepts applications for projects to purchase major equipment in support of outstanding research initiati...

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The Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a SIUE faculty member in order to recognize the role of interdependence of research/scholarship and teaching. The Award confirms SIUE's belief that an individual must be a good scholar to be a good teacher.

The Paul Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A certificate and a $5...

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Update: Program will not be available FY27.

Any questions concerning this program may be directed to the Graduate School at siueresearch@siue.edu.

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The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

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The Representing Research Impacts (RRI) competition is designed to encourage SIUE scholars to communicate to the public the results and impacts of their research and creative activities.

The product can be any public facing representation of the scholar/artist/researcher’s research including photo, drawing, painting, collage, sound recording, digital data visualization, diagram, recorded piece of performance art, and so forth.  Scholars can create the product indi...