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Posted July 16, 2025
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Looking for a Collaborator?
Posted July 16, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Looking for a faculty member to collaborate with on your next research project, check out the “Faculty Experts” link on the Current News page (bottom left corner).
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SIUE Research Centers Spotlight: The STEM Center
Posted July 16, 2025
Discipline(s): All
SIUE Research Centers Spotlight: The STEM Center
Dr. Sharon Locke
slocke@siue.edu stemcenter@siue.edu
The STEM Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provides a variety of programming and services to broaden STEM education throughout the region. From organizing and hosting engaging STEM events to developing and testing innovative curricula, our team of researchers, educators, and creators works to define be...
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Summer Faculty Productivity Series
Posted July 16, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Start Date/Time: May 27, 2025
End Date/Time: August 14, 2025
When: Weekly | Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Center for Faculty Development and Innovation, Lovejoy Library (2nd Floor) 2030
Description: Recharge your summer with focused, community-driven productivity! Join us for a weekly series designed to help you prepare, write, and create with purpose. Whether you’re prepping for fall, pushing forward on a man...
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Free Grant Development Training
Posted July 09, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Together with the Midwest Climate Collaborative (MCC), SIUE is offering free grant development and writing workshops to enable communities to tap into federal, state and private funds for climate work. While our initial focus was primarily through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) we understand that this landscape is changing with the new administration. These grant trainings are still useful for all types of funding opportunities....
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GrantForward Database
Posted July 09, 2025
Discipline(s): All
GrantForward is the prime funding and faculty profile tool for SIUE. It allows researchers to search and save opportunities and create funding alerts. Access to GrantForward can be gained from any SIUE IP address, and off campus through an account profile.
Did you know you can use your SIUE sign-in credentials to login to GrantForward.com?
If you have it bookmarked, the new url is https://www.grantforward.com/saml/siue-edu. If you kept your...
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Summer Faculty Productivity Series
Posted July 09, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Start Date/Time: May 27, 2025
End Date/Time: August 14, 2025
When: Weekly | Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Center for Faculty Development and Innovation, Lovejoy Library (2nd Floor) 2030
Description: Recharge your summer with focused, community-driven productivity! Join us for a weekly series designed to help you prepare, write, and create with purpose. Whether you’re prepping for fall, pushing forward on a man...
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Foundations Funding Opportunity E-Newsletter – July 2025
Posted July 02, 2025
Discipline(s): All
The Graduate School's Office of Research and Projects (ORP) is offering this monthly e-newsletter of foundation-sponsored grant opportunities available to support the diverse research and creative activities of all faculty.
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Distinguished Scholar Awards
Summary: Funds research on violence and aggression from social and natural sciences.
Grant Cap: $15,000–$75,000 per year for 1–2 years
Deadli...
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Office Hours with ORP: Dr. Alaaeldin Elsisi
Posted July 02, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Over the past four years, Dr. Alaa Elsisi has emerged as a dynamic force in structural engineering research, securing over $2 million in competitive funding through his roles at SIUE and the University of Missouri (MU). As an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering department at SIUE, Dr. Elsisi has combined technical expertise with strategic collaboration, contributing significantly to the academic and applied research landscape.
In this video link Dr. Elsi...
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Summer Faculty Productivity Series
Posted July 02, 2025
Discipline(s): All
Start Date/Time: May 27, 2025
End Date/Time: August 14, 2025
When: Weekly | Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Where: Center for Faculty Development and Innovation, Lovejoy Library (2nd Floor) 2030
Description: Recharge your summer with focused, community-driven productivity! Join us for a weekly series designed to help you prepare, write, and create with purpose. Whether you’re prepping for fall, pushing forward on a man...
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Foundations Funding Opportunity E-Newsletter - June 2025
Posted June 25, 2025
Disciplines: All
The Graduate School's Office of Research and Projects (ORP) is offering this monthly e-newsletter of foundation-sponsored grant opportunities available to support the diverse research and creative activities of all faculty.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Grant Opportunity: Cottrell Scholar Award
Summary: Supports early-career faculty in chemistry, physics, and astronomy at U.S. or Canadian institutions.
Grant Cap: $120,000 over 3 years
Deadline: July 1, 2025...
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Exploring Equitable Futures Call for Proposals
Posted June 25, 2025
Disciplines: All
Proposals due October 15th, 2025, 2:00pm cst
The purpose of this Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.
We aim to fund projects that:
- Explore the future by researching and experimenting with ideas that are ahead of the curve or at the edge of our collective imagination;
- Shine a light on the emerging trends and forces that are shap...
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
Posted June 25, 2025
Disciplines: All
New Research Support – Applications due July 16th, 2025, 2:00pm cst
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to improving health equity in the United States. RWJF has deepened its focus on partnering with affected communities to promote health equity and combat structural racism as the most fundamental barrier to health in America. One of the ways the Foundation does this is through Evidence for Action (E4A), a national program that funds action-oriented he...
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SIUE Research Centers Spotlight: NCERC – National Corn to Ethanol Research Center
Posted June 25, 2025
Disciplines: All
NCERC – National Corn to Ethanol Research Center
Dr. Yan Zhang yazhang@siue.edu
We are a motivated team of collaborators, validators and visionaries. Our unified goal is to make the world a better, more sustainable place to live. We are driven by a strong passion for excellence in everything we do.
We deliver superior results through adaptable, innovative thinking, supported by our plug-and-play facilities and unparalleled...
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Foundations Funding Opportunity E-Newsletter - June 2025
Posted June 18, 2025
Disciplines: All
The Graduate School's Office of Research and Projects (ORP) is offering this monthly e-newsletter of foundation-sponsored grant opportunities available to support the diverse research and creative activities of all faculty.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Grant Opportunity: Cottrell Scholar Award
Summary: Supports early-career faculty in chemistry, physics, and astronomy at U.S. or Canadian institutions.
Grant Cap: $120,000 over 3 years
Deadline: July 1, 2025...
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Illinois Capital Development Board’s Art-in-Architecture Program Now Accepting RFQs
Posted June 18, 2025
The Capital Development Board's Art-In-Architecture program (CDB/AIA) is pleased to announce a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Illinois professional artists to create permanent original public art for the Southeastern Illinois College Stanford D. Williams Career and Training Center in Carmi, Illinois. The Fine Arts Review Committee is seeking a wall installation in the lobby of the building across from the welcome desk. The available space is ... |
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NSF CISE Newsletter: Should I submit an NSF CAREER proposal?
Posted June 18, 2025
Disciplines: All
I would like to dedicate this newsletter to an important topic that is on the minds of many junior faculty: the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER). Many of you may be asking: Should I submit an NSF CAREER proposal this July?
The short answer is yes. If you have a compelling idea that is ready and the time to put together a strong proposal, you should move forward. This is the same advice we would have given a year ago, and it remains sound today.
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NSF Webinar: Lessons from the Field 2025: Perspectives on Catalyzing Convergence in GCR Phase II
Posted June 18, 2025
Join us as we discuss some of the challenges and benefits of working on deeply integrated cross-disciplinary projects. We have assembled a panel of investigators who have led successful projects funded by the NSF Growing Convergence Research program to share their insights on convergence and how it has manifested in their own projects.
Thursday, June 26th, 2025 – 2:30-4:00pm (cst)
Passcode: GCR
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Office Hours with ORP: Dr. Jerrica Ampadu
Posted June 18, 2025
Disciplines: All
Over the last seven years, Dr. Ampadu has secured more than $10 million in funding. In the video link below Dr. Jerrica Ampadu, Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs in Nursing and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for SIUE’s School of Nursing, shares her experiences in working with SIUE’s Office of Research and Projects.
Dr. Jerrica V. Ampadu is an Associate Professor at SIUE, where she currently serves as the Interim Assista...
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NEH - Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary
Posted June 11, 2025
Application Deadline: July 9, 2025
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs is accepting applications for the Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary program. This program supports cultural organizations in creating and developing scholarship-based public programs that celebrate the people, events, ideas, and legacies related to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The Public Impact Projects Celebratin...
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