External Awards Received
The ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn Office of Research is pleased to congratulate the following faculty on their success in obtaining external project funding:
U-M Principal Investigator: Yulia Hristova
Project Title: Girls Get Math @Dearborn
Sponsor: Tensor Foundation (via Mathematical Association of America)
Awarded Amount: $6,000
GirlsGetMath @Dearborn is a selective week-long applied mathematics program at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. All high school students, regardless of gender, are invited to explore topics in applied mathematics such as image processing, graph theory, mathematics of voting, recommendation systems, and cryptology. Activities include games, interactive lectures, daily computer lab activities, panel discussions on careers in STEM fields, and college applications. The program will run from June 23 to 27, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. and is free for all admitted participants.
Announcements
New Research Security Training Requirement for Proposers to the Dept of Energy or Dept of Defense
Effective May 1, 2025, certain sponsors (e.g., Department of Defense, Department of Energy) require research security training to be completed within 12 months prior to submitting a funding proposal (check the terms and conditions of the proposal for any such training requirements.) (ÂÜÀòÉçICH login and password required.)
is listed as one of four elements of a Research Security Program required by National Security Presidential Memorandum 33, issued on Jan. 14, 2021, to safeguard our research ecosystem. The "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022," Section 10634, codifies the requirement for research security training for federal research award personnel in public law.
Updates to the ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn Campus Grants Program
The Office of Research is pleased to introduce an updated Competitive Campus Grants Program this fall. While the individual competitions will largely remain the same, we will revert to a single submission cycle for fiscal year 26 (FY26). This new cycle is scheduled to open on October 1 and will close on January 20 (submission deadline). Award decisions will be made and announced by April 30.
Key benefits to this change include:
- Longer application window: allows faculty more planning and submission flexibility
- Improved review process: more time for careful evaluation of grant applications; easier to compare the quality of all submissions and to choose the top ones to award
- Better budget management: allows for allocating the annual budget more strategically; the total amount of funds is more predictable and can be planned for accordingly
- Higher quality applications: more time for PIs to prepare proposals, resulting in higher quality applications
- Administrative efficiency: more manageable administrative workload (less frequent repetition of tasks like reviewing, communicating with applicants, and processing awards); increased RD team’s capacity to offer more support related directly to securing external funding
If you have questions or comments about this change, or the Campus Grants Program in general, please send them to: [email protected]
Research Events in June
- The OVPR Office of Research Development will host an opportunity kickoff on the NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. This session will provide an overview of the funding program, limited submission process, strategies for developing a competitive proposal from previous MRI awardees and information on how RD staff can support the proposal planning process.
- Friday, June 6, 2025 @ noon, virtual
- The FAST PACE Toolkit is a proven resource for fostering equitable and effective community-academic partnerships, particularly in crisis situations. This three-part virtual training series will equip researchers, community members, and practitioners with the skills and knowledge to:
- Build strong, trusting relationships with community partners
- Develop community-driven research protocols
- Navigate ethical considerations in community-engaged research
- Translate research findings into actionable solutions
- Session 1: Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 3 p.m.-5 p.m., virtual
- Session 2: Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 3 p.m.-5 p.m., virtual
- Session 3: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 3 p.m.-5 p.m., virtual
- The FAST PACE Toolkit is a proven resource for fostering equitable and effective community-academic partnerships, particularly in crisis situations. This three-part virtual training series will equip researchers, community members, and practitioners with the skills and knowledge to:
- RCR4K is a seminar that is designed to meet the requirements of the NIH K-23, or any federal or non-federal career development grant. The 5-session (10 hour) seminar is mostly interactive, practice-based, and focused on addressing RCR issues (ethics, integrity, and regulatory matters) that have arisen in the course of your own funded research. It’s relevant, interactive, and includes mentoring from experienced faculty.
- Session 1: Thursday, June 26, 2025, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. - History of research ethics, Human subjects research regulations
- Session 2: Thursday, July 17, 2025, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. - Research integrity: falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism
- Session 3: Thursday, August 14, 2025, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. - Authorship & Plagiarism
- Session 4: Thursday, September 18, 2025, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. - Clinical Trial Design: The Support Trial
- Session 5: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. - Public Health Research, and Research with data and specimens: Henrietta Lacks and the Common Rule debate
- ÂÜÀòÉç-Ann Arbor North Campus Research Complex, Bldg. 300, Room 376
- RCR4K is a seminar that is designed to meet the requirements of the NIH K-23, or any federal or non-federal career development grant. The 5-session (10 hour) seminar is mostly interactive, practice-based, and focused on addressing RCR issues (ethics, integrity, and regulatory matters) that have arisen in the course of your own funded research. It’s relevant, interactive, and includes mentoring from experienced faculty.
Research Resource Highlight: Overton
Every month, the Office of Research features a resource and/or tool that is available for researchers. This month, we are featuring Overton.
Overton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications, and white papers. Overton parses each document to find references, people, and key concepts and then links them to relevant news stories, academic research, think tank output, and other policies. As a user, you can search these documents to see where your ideas, papers, and reports are being cited or mentioned. Overton is available to U-M staff and researchers through the . Using Overton, you can:
- Track policy influence and impact: allows you to see where scholarly work is cited in policy documents.
- Search for policy documents: search or browse policy documents across all disciplines.
Questions about using Overton can be addressed to , U-M Library Informationist.
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
The Office of Research maintains a list of selected funding opportunities, organized by college on our website under Announcements. In addition, we encourage you to check out the Hanover Research subject area calendars with funding opportunities which we upload on a regular basis to our website.
Please refer to for more information and updates related to the Trump administration's changes to federal research funding.
Use the updated to look up internal (to U-M) funding opportunities and Limited Submission opportunities open to Dearborn researchers.
Contact the ÂÜÀòÉç-Dearborn Office of Research if you would like more information about submitting a proposal to any of the programs.
