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IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
🧑🏫 Internal Grant Announcement - Various Deadlines
💵 Funding Opportunities!
📊 Quarter 2 Data Report
💰 Award Announcements!
🏗️ Tip: Featured Video: The "Always On" Funding Mindset
📅 Office of Research Office Hours
📚 News from the Leatherby Libraries
2026-2027 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity Now Open!
Our office is now accepting proposals for the 2026-2027 Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activity (FGRSC). This internal grant provides competitive, merit-based support for research, scholarly, and creative activities in humanities, fine arts, performing arts, social sciences, education, and other related disciplines.
The call for proposals, guidelines, and supporting documents can be found on our resource page.
RSVP for our FGRSC workshop on Wednesday January 21st from 10am-11:30am, which will cover an overview of the grant, application, and review process.
Proposals are due Monday, March 2, 2026, at 12pm (Noon).
New Funding Opportunities to Enhance Research and Scholarly Competitiveness and Productivity!
Our office is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities for full-time faculty (tenure, tenure-track, and NTT with research and scholarly expectations):
- The New Research Exploration
Award, a one-time funding opportunity to support faculty in pursuing new research, scholarly, and creative directions.
The call for proposals, guidelines, and supporting documents can be found on our resource page.
Proposals are due Monday, February 16, 2026, at 12pm (Noon). - The Grant Resubmission Support provides critical funding to faculty to strengthen previously reviewed but unfunded grant proposals for resubmission.
The call for proposals, guidelines, and supporting documents can be found on our resource page. This is an ongoing submission deadline until funding has been depleted.
Federal Agencies Updates
Currently, many federal agencies are updating their policies and solicitations in response to recent Executive Orders and related federal administration and agency directives. Official new policy documents are being developed, and agencies have started to release interim guidance documents. Click here to read more about the new policies and guidance documents.
Our Research Compliance staff is here to assist with your research ethics-related questions, concerns, and education needs. Staff have regulatory expertise in areas including Research Security, Human and Animal Research, Conflicts of Interest, Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research, Foreign Engagement, and Research Misconduct. They are available for workshops, seminar presentations, training sessions, and small, large, or 1:1 discussions and consultations. Please email donais@chapman.edu.
New! Funding Fridays Series Spring 2026
Grants funding can be critical to faculty careers, but difficult to pull off on your own given limited time. Join the Office of Research and your peers in a flexible, 8-session workshop series that will motivate, inform, and support your writing of grants for submission.
Stop by each session for collaborative learning that will help you stay on track for your goals or hop in for only the sessions you need. Fridays from 1 to 2:30 PM. See the list of topics and full schedule here.
First session: Finding Funding that Fits my Research, with Molly McCarty (Office of Sponsored Project Services – Pre-Award) and Martina Nieswandt (VP of Research)
February 13, at 1 PM, Killefer Conference Room A, RSVP here!
I Got a Grant! Now What?
Congratulations! Your project has been funded. Now what? Join SPS for a 1-hour webinar on Friday, February 20th from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm to learn what happens after an award is received, what tools and services SPS provides for staying on track, actions you need to take as PI, and what to do if changes are necessary during the course of your project. Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the workshop.
Funding Opportunities
- January 20, 2026 – NSF | National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)
- February 9, 2026 – NSF | Growing Convergence Research (GCR)
- NEW! February 24, 2026 – Spencer Foundation | Large Research Grants on Education (Pre-proposal Deadline)
- February 27, 2026 – NSF | EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
- NEW! March 11, 2026 – NSF | Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning for K-12 (Phase I Proposal Deadline)
- May 19, 2026 – NSF | National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)
- July 22, 2026 – NSF | Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Proposals and Awards - Quarterly Data
Proposals submitted and awards received during the second quarter are now available by sponsor and by school/college. Click here to view the reports.
Kudos to Chapman Faculty Award Recipients
Please join us in congratulating the following faculty who received a new award in 2025. Keep up the amazing work!
Zhen Cong for "Collaborative Research: Home Mitigation for Hurricane Induced Multi-Hazards: A Multilevel Interdisciplinary Vulnerability and Resiliency Approach" for $133,453 from the National Science Foundation.
Sun Yang for "Development of small molecule selective inhibitors of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) for melanoma treatment" for $3,051,479 from the National Cancer Institute.
Keykavous Parang and Sun Yang for "Peptide-Doxorubicin Conjugates for Mitigating Cardiotoxicity and Overcoming Drug Resistance in Cancer" for $415,500 from the National Cancer Institute.
Jeff Goad for "A Prospective Survey Study Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Determine Factors Influencing Pharmacist's and Patient's Pneumococcal Vaccination Decision-making" for $106,095 from a major pharmaceutical company.
Uri Maoz for "An investigation of the cortical sources of self-initiated actions using brain stimulation" for $46,106 from Center for Open Science.
Julia Boehm for "Promoting Brain Health: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Psychosocial Assets and Cognitive Function" for $77,000 from the American Heart Association.
Laura Glynn for "Leveraging large-scale Data-Science and Deep Phenotyping to Determine the Impact of a Novel type of Early-life Adversity on Children's Health" for $55,000 from Children's Hospital of Orange County.
Christine O'Connell for "Interactive effects of ecosystem warming and shifting precipitation regimes on tropical soil greenhouse gas emissions" for $458,047 from the National Science Foundation.
Christopher Kim for "Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Earth and Environmental Sciences (SURFEES)" for $523,639 from the National Science Foundation.
Jerry LaRue for "Ultrafast dynamics of core-shell nanoparticle photocatalysts" for $404,530 from USD of Energy.
Rosalee Hellberg for "Addressing the Critical Need for Methods to Detect Salmonella enterica in Meat Analog Products" for $295,703 from NIFA.
Seth Benzell for "FMRG: Cyber: AI-enabled human-robot collaboration for on-site to-spec future manufacturing at recycling plants" for $314,268 from Wright State University (NSF PRIME).
Yuxin Wen for "Enhancing Privacy-Aware System Failure Prediction through Integrated Longitudinal and Survival Data Modeling" for $199,106 from the National Science Foundation.
Yuxin Wen for "Collaborative Research: From Awareness to Action: Integrating responsible AI practice into Undergraduate Engineering Education" for $149,951 from the National Science Foundation.
Douglas Fudge for "Integrative biology of fiber-reinforced slime in hagfishes" for $728,724 from the National Science Foundation.
Joshua Fisher for "Collaborative Research: FIRE-NET: Solving the Top Priority for a Fire Agency for Two Million People: Decision-Support Data Integration Network System (DeSDINY)" for $249,479 from the National Science Foundation.
Gabriela Shirkey for "CONNECT-SBG: Collaborative Nexus for Networking, Education, and Career Training in Surface Biology and Geology" for $223,704 from NASA.
Vikki Katz for "The Civil Discourse Accelerator: Harnessing Digital Innovation to Build Civil Strength" for $150,000 from the Glazer Foundation.
Featured Video: The “Always On” Funding Mindset
In this clip, NCFDD instructors explain a simple daily practice that keeps funding ideas active, strengthens proposal quality, and builds consistent progress across multiple projects. Try it out!
SPS Pre Award & Non-Financial Post Award: The first Thursday of every month from 11:00-12:00pm. Zoom Link.
SPS Post Award: The last Tuesday of every month from 9:30-10:30am. Zoom Link
IRB: The first Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00am. Zoom Link.
IACUC/COI/Export/Import: The fourth Tuesday of every month from 9:00-10:00pm. Zoom Link.
Industry Alliance and Commercialization: The third Thursday of every month from 3:00-4:00pm. Zoom Link.
Graduate Education: The last Thursday of every month from 10:00-11:00am. Zoom Link.
For a full schedule including quarterly and semester specific dates for additional departments and for Zoom information visit our events page.
Smarter Literature Reviews with AI - Workshop.
Recent years have seen the rise of AI "research assistants", "deep search", and more, which have transformed the way that research is collected and presented. Join our Data Services Librarian online on Tuesday, January 20, at 10 AM, to learn about AI-powered search and how you can utilize AI tools and techniques to streamline your literature review writing process.
Understanding Open Access and Data Sharing Mandates
Since the end of 2025, all federal agencies require funded researchers to make both their resulting publications and the underlying data open access (or publicly available) at the time of publication. Our librarians are here to point researchers to resources and services to help them navigate this funder landscape, understand what is required by their grants, and fulfill those obligations.
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