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This week, The Office of the Vice President for Research encourages faculty to apply for funding through the Racial Justice and Equity Research Fund, shares new resources and COVID-19 testing opportunities for faculty and staff, and highlights new journal publications on how the novel coronavirus pandemic is affecting researchers around the world.
In this edition of the Weekly Research Update, we highlight an upcoming COVID-19 virtual town hall for UofSC faculty and staff, share an NSF fellowship opportunity for graduate students in STEM fields, provide an update on the bipartisan RISE Act and more.
This week, we highlight Tuesday night's COVID-19 virtual town hall meeting for faculty and staff, remind readers about the new Racial Justice and Equity Research Fund, seek faculty reviewers to support our internal funding programs, provide registration information for a series of faculty forums on digital accessibility and an NIH roundtable, and share new COVID-19 information resources from Elsevier.
This new program is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research in partnership with the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with funding made available through the ASPIRE Program. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis from Wednesday, July 15 through Wednesday, September 30, 2020.
In this edition of the Weekly Research Update, we announce a new internal funding program to support research on racial equity, share a comprehensive report on mitigating COVID-19 risk in university research settings and connect readers with a recording of the July 7 UofSC virtual town hall for faculty and staff.
Take a tour of the new UofSC COVID-19 website, check out a limited submission funding opportunity from SCRA and learn about web-based event offerings for researchers of all disciplines hosted by the NIH in this edition of the Weekly Research Update.
In this edition we cover the bipartisan RISE Act to support U.S. research, note an extension of the NSF CAREER Award proposal deadline, connect readers with information on COVID-19 testing for UofSC employees, encourage researchers to check our COVID-19 expertise listing to find collaborators and share remote learning opportunities for researchers and scholars coming up in July.
The Weekly Research Update for Thursday, June 18, includes news of a large grant to professor Xiaoming Li to study COVID-19 in South Carolina, an effort by theNIH Center for Scientific Review to eliminate racial disparities in research funding, a call for undergraduate research presentation reviewers and more.
This week's research update includes a look at the NSF's new Vision 2030 report, opportunities to nominate early-career scientists for recognition by the AAAS and an overview of employee-focused information and resources available on the university's COVID-19 website.
In this week's edition, we celebrate a major new award of $29 million over five years, mark UofSC's ranking among the top 100 worldwide patent-receiving universities, share new research guidance and workplace resources for returning employees to campus and invite postdoctoral scholars working throughout the system to join the UofSC Postdoctoral Association.
The Office of the Vice President for Research, in conjunction with the University's Future Planning Group Three: Academics and Research, have developed detailed guidance for university research personnel returning to campus beginning June 2, 2020.
In this edition, read new details about the university's Return to Work Plan, get the latest on NSF proposal formatting requirements and preview bipartisan federal legislation that, if signed into law, would add a technology arm to the NSF.
Subscribe for news and resources from the Office of the Vice President for Research, delivered to your inbox weekly. This week's edition includes an update on the COVID-19: Return to Work Plan, Purchasing Department plans to disperse PPE, a GIS workshop and research databases available through the University Libraries website.
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The Office of the Vice President for Research is proud to announce the recipients of our 2020 ASPIRE faculty research grants. Since it began in 2012, ASPIRE has funded promising research and shared research infrastructure, to enhance research and scholarship throughout the UofSC system.
The virtual town hall meeting will feature 15-minute presentations by three UofSC health sciences faculty experts and an audience Q&A session. This event is free and open to the public. Access link now available.
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A total of 42 projects involving 82 faculty members across five campuses, eight colleges and 29 departments will receive funding to complete innovative research projects addressing a wide variety of issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Summer 2020 on-campus research programs and events for undergraduate students have been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Office of the Vice President for Research requests that UofSC faculty with research expertise relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic submit summary information to be published on our website to facilitate research connections and collaborations across the university and throughout the state.
Proposals for this special funding initiative must be submitted in USCeRA by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Faculty from all disciplines and campuses are encouraged to apply.
In a letter to the University of South Carolina research community, Vice President for Research Prakash Nagarkatti provides guidance for researchers and research administrators on research activities and services while system campuses are closed. This letter, initially published on March 17, 2020, will be updated as new information is available.