Research News Roundup - August 2025

Welcome to our August edition! We’re excited to bring you the latest highlights that matter most to our research and academic community. Inside this issue, you'll find new funding opportunities to support your work, important updates from the National Institute of Health (NIH) that may impact your grant strategies, and a wide variety of workshops and events designed to spark ideas and foster collaboration. Plus, don’t miss the latest news and resources from the Leatherby Libraries—your hub for discovery and innovation. Let’s dive in and explore what’s ahead!

Reminder: Please reach out to us immediately, if you receive any communication from funding agencies (or primary recipients, when Chapman holds a subward), about existing federal awards, programs or pending proposal, so that we can coordinate an appropriate response in line with Chapman policies and funding requirements.

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Fulbright 2026-2027 Competition

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is offering more than 380 awards in more than 130 countries this year. Please share these opportunities with your colleagues who would make great Fulbrighters. The deadline to apply to U.S. Scholar awards is September 15, 2025 (5:00pm Eastern, UTC -5:00)

Upcoming Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation

NSF 25-543: Computer and Information Science and Engineering : Future Computing Research (Future CoRe), supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Deadline: September 11, 2025
NSF 25-540: Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) – due September 16, 2025, or January 20, 2026, or May 19, 2026
NSF 21-588 – EDU Core Research – Supports research on STEM education in one or more of three research areas: STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development. Due October 2, 2025.
NSF 24-503 – Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science – Supports summer research experiences for K-14 educators that foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts and industry partners. Due October 8, 2025.
NSF 20-558: PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) – due November 10, 2025

Department of Health and Human Service

Food and Drug Administration: NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens – Letter of Intent Due March 2, 2026 for April 1, 2026 application due date

National Endowment for the Humanities

Public Humanities Projects – due September 10, 2025
Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence – due October 1, 2025

Department of Defense

Defense Health Agency: BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) for Extramural Biomedical and Human Performance Research and Development
Department of the Navy: FY25 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) Education and Workforce Program

Other

Samsung GRO 2025: The GRO program is an annual call for proposals that invites the world’s leading universities to propose innovative research ideas that will be evaluated for their novelty and alignment with Samsung’s various research fields. Internal Deadline August 21, 2025
Sony Research Award Program 2025: The Sony Focused Research Award provides an opportunity for university faculty, research institutes, and Sony to conduct this type of collaborative, focused research. The award provides up to $150K USD in funds, and may be renewed for subsequent year(s). Internal Deadline September 8, 2025
Willima T. Grant Foundation Institutional Challenge Grant – Supports university-based research institutes, schools, and centers in building sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Due September 15, 2025, 3 PM EST.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policy Updates

NIH announced a new policy limiting Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator to six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications for all council rounds in a calendar year, effective Sept. 25, 2025. Furthermore, NIH will not consider applications that are either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas of the applicants. NIH will use technology to detect such content, with potential penalties for violations.
How Does the NIH Initiative to Prioritize Human-Based Research Affect Research Proposing the Use of Laboratory Animals? | Grants & Funding clarifies last week’s announcement about NIH eliminating animal-model-only NOFOs. See NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research (NOT-OD-25-131 )
Flexibilities for Registration and Results Reporting of Prospective Basic Experimental Studies with Human Participants (NOT-OD-25-134 )

Connect With Members of The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

Join National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) for the following Zoom events:

"Cultivating Your Network of Mentors, Sponsors & Collaborators" on August 14
Beyond Course Evaluations: Documenting Teaching for Tenure & Promotion on September 9
Overcoming Academic Perfectionism on September 11
"Being Agile in Uncertain Times: Scrum Project Management for Faculty" on August 20
Fall 2025 14-Day Writing Challenges starts on September 7. Check the events calendar for more information!

Workshops Supporting Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities

All workshops are designed to support faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers in every stage of their research journey. Visit our events page for more information.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Info Session- August 27, 2025 on Zoom

Explore opportunities for U.S. citizens to go abroad with the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. With more than 400 awards annually in over 135 countries to teach, conduct research, and carry out professional projects, find the right Fulbright opportunity for you and ask questions at one of the Upcoming Scholar Office Hours.

Join us for an information session on Wednesday August 27th from 2pm - 3pm via Zoom. RSVP is required.

Shifting Focus while Utilizing Expertise - Part 1: Diversifying your funding portfolio – Webinar, September 4, 2025

Join Bryan Carlson, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, and Lawrence Lau, Director of Industry Alliances and Commercialization in this interactive webinar on the ins- and outs- of foundation and industry funding.

RSVP is required for the September 4, 2025,11:30-12:30 pm Zoom webinar.

Shifting Focus while Utilizing Expertise – Part 2: Developing collaborations - Webinar, September 8, 2025 @ Rinker Campus; September 9, 2025 @ Orange Campus

Join us for this workshop to explore the art and administration of building successful research partnerships! Learn about the benefits of collaborative research, techniques for integrating diverse expertise, and strategies for identifying and maintaining partnerships. Topics will include proposal preparation, managing external collaborations, navigating IRB and IACUC processes, and overcoming challenges in international collaborations. Plus, hear examples of successful projects and impactful teamwork. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your collaborative skills.

RSVP for September 8, 2025, 12 PM to 1:30 PM @ Rinker Campus CC 201

RSVP for September 9, 2025, 12 PM to 1:30 PM @ Orange Campus BK 401

Submitting Your First Study to Chapman's IRB - September 19, 2025 on Zoom

Does submitting your study to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) make you break out in a cold sweat? Dread no more! Join the IRB’s upcoming online workshop “Submitting your first study to Chapman’s IRB” on September 19, 2025 from 1:00-2:00 pm. The workshop is geared towards researchers new to Chapman. IRB staff will be walking you through use of Cayuse-Human Ethics.

Completion of either CITI course: “Biomedical Research”, or “Social and Behavioral Research” before the workshop is highly recommended to give you some baseline knowledge on what the IRB is.

Kudos to Chapman Faculty Award Recipients

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty who have received a new award in 2025. Keep up the amazing work!

Jerika Lam for "Amplifying equitable access to oral and injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis through community pharmacies" from a major maker of HIV prevention drugs (via subaward from an R1 research university) for $62,356
Jeremy Hsu for "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Completing the Research Experience: Maximizing the Impacts of Inclusive CUREs from Hypothesis to Undergraduate Conference Participation" from Westfield State University (NSF PRIME) for $76,723.00
Meghan Cosier for "Teacher Workforce Initiatives and High Quality Mathematics Instruction for All" from The Gates Foundation for 1,499,808

Writing Time Management Tips

Writing is core to academic success, but when your schedule gets filled with teaching, service, mentoring, administrative tasks, family, etc., writing is often the first thing that gets pushed aside. It is important to figure out how to sustain your writing when everything else feels more urgent. Check out NCFDD’s latest blog, that includes five practical strategies for protecting writing time in a demanding academic life.

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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.

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Application Now Open for 2025-2026 Library Open Access Award

The Supporting Open Access Research and Scholarship (SOARS) program is designed to provide financial support to Chapman University assistant and associate faculty publishing the results of their research, scholarship, or creative activity in an Open Access (OA) journal. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis through late April 2026. Interested participants can view the application here.

Teaching with the Library – A Virtual Library Workshop for Instructors

The Leatherby Libraries will be hosting a virtual workshop for faculty on Tuesday, August 12, at 12:15 p.m. that will provide a comprehensive overview of library resources and services, and they can be used to support your courses. This session will highlight how to locate and provide links to eBooks, scholarly articles, streaming media, and other resources in your syllabus and Canvas.

Pivot Funding Search – Office Hours

Our Data Services Librarian will be hosting office hours on the first Thursday of each month at 11 a.m. to help you craft your Pivot keywords for your profile and searches. Participants can drop in virtually or in person, or they can book a one-on-one consultation for help outside of office hours.

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