Research and Sponsored Projects

Research and Creative Activities Assistants

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Research and Creative Activities Assistants

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Graduate Dean's Research and Creative Activities Assistantships

The College of Graduate Studies and Research (CGSR) is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Graduate Dean’s Research and Creative Activities Assistantships (“RCA Assistantships”) for graduate students at 91Porn. The goal of these awards is to give graduate students an extended opportunity to experience and participate in the conduct of a research or creative activity project with an NEIU faculty member.

The RCA Assistantship award provides support for the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters. It includes one 3-credit-hour course tuition waiver per semester and a stipend of $1,200 per semester for 10 hours per week of work conducting your research project or creative activity with the supervision of a faculty mentor or assisting a faculty mentor with their research or creative activity project. The award also includes a research budget of up to $250. Note: Awards are contingent on available funding.

Submission Deadline: Monday, Aug. 5, 2024
Awards Announced: Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024

Eligibility: Graduate students who are in good standing in a degree program at Northeastern during the period of the award are eligible. Awards are contingent on students enrolling in at least one graduate-level course in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters.

Application Process

Submit the following materials in PDF format to graduatestudies@neiu.edu.

Copy of the student’s NEIU full transcript (unofficial transcript is acceptable) including both undergraduate and graduate level, if the student did undergraduate work here.
CV or resume (optional)
1-2 page outline of the research or creative activity project and plan, including a description of what will be produced. The first paragraph should be a lay summary of the project and plan. Proposed projects should include adequate precautions to ensure the safety of the participants as applicable.
Annotated budget up to $250 for research or creative activity support (if requesting this support)
Letter of recommendation for the student from the faculty member mentoring the student on the research/creative activity project, including a description of any objectives for the student’s growth experience as an RCA Graduate Assistant that complement the project plan.

Award process

A group of faculty solicited by the CGSR Dean will review the applications and budget proposals, and make its recommendations to the CGSR Dean. The committee encourages projects that develop the professional skills of the graduate assistant as well as further the research or creative activity itself.

Deliverables

The student will present in the spring at the John Sargon Albazi Student Research and Creative Activities Symposium, and will submit a 1-2 page research summary by the end of the spring term.

Please contact graduatestudies@neiu.edu with any questions about this assistantship opportunity.

Resources and Templates for Approved Research

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Resources and Templates for Approved Research

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CONTINUING REVIEW OF NON-EXEMPT RESEARCH PROTOCOLS

Studies approved by the convened IRB must be reviewed if they continue longer than one year past the date of IRB approval. You can submit a Continuing Review Application on Mentor. Below is a helpful PDF on how to submit a Continuing Review on Mentor:

How to Submit a Continuing Review

Under the revised Common Rule, the following no longer require continuing review:

Most expedited studies. The IRB may require continuing review for some expedited studies.
Studies approved by the convened IRB that have completed subject intervention/interaction, where the activity is limited to either the final analysis of identifiable data/biospecimens or involves accessing follow-up clinical data from procedures that subjects would undergo as part of clinical care.

Expedited studies not subject to annual reviews will receive annual survey reminders with information regarding researcher responsibilities and project termination.

AMENDMENTS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED RESEARCH

If a principal investigator needs to add researchers or make other changes to their protocol, they must file an amendment to their previously approved research. You can submit an Amendment Application on Mentor. Below is a helpful PDF on how to submit an Amendment on Mentor:

How to Submit an Amendment

ADVERSE EVENTS

It is critical that principal investigators report any adverse events occurring in the course of their research. Please review these documents to ensure that the University is aware of any such events.

Guidelines and Adverse Event Report Form

CLOSING RESEARCH

The principal investigator must formally close their research when the study is finished. You can submit a Closure Application on Mentor. Below is a helpful PDF on how to submit a Closure Application on Mentor:

How to Submit a Closure Application

Questions about these processes? Please contact the IRB office at irb@neiu.edu.

Getting Started

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Getting Started

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Determine if you need to apply to the IRB

Determination of Human Subject Research: Please fill out the pre-question survey in Mentor to determine whether your project would be considered research on human subjects.

When logging in to Mentor, the Institution ID is "neiu" (lower case). The username and password is the same as your NEIUport login credentials.

GETTING STARTED WITH MENTOR

Submit a New Protocol (Faculty/Staff)

Determine if you are eligible to be a Principal Investigator

Human Subjects on-line training requirements: Researchers using human subjects must receive training in human subjects protection before applying for and receiving IRB approval. This training is available for free online. You will need to register for a free account to access the training module. For information on getting started with CITI, please see these instructions.
Responsibilities of a Principal Investigator: The conduct of human subject research requires more consideration than types of research that do not include human subjects. Please review the guidelines about your responsibility for the safe and ethical conduct of human subject research.
Responsibilities of a Faculty Sponsor: Mentoring students in the safe and ethical conduct of human subject research requires careful oversight and thoughtful engagement with students about their responsibilities. This document will assist you in undertaking the responsibility of mentoring students on their research.

LEARN MORE about Institutional Review Boards

This video describes what an institutional review board (IRB) is and how IRBs serve to protect people who participate in research.

For more information on the IRB process, review this chart.

Questions about getting started? Please contact us at irb@neiu.edu.

QuickLinks

IRB video

Institutional Review Board Leadership

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Institutional Review Board Leadership

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Dr. Shedeh Tavakoli is the Chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Dr. Tavakoli is a faculty member and Chair of the Counselor Education Department. She is a clinician and researcher with experience in trauma-related mental health disorders. Her research interests include risk and predictor factors of posttraumatic stress, posttraumatic growth; neurobiology of attachment and interpersonal trauma; complex trauma; acculturative stress, supervisee anxiety and the supervisory relationship; interpersonal neurobiology, emotion focused therapy, and expressive writing.

Dr. Tavakoli has served on the NEIU IRB since 2014.

Resources and Templates for New Research

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Resources and Templates for New Research

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Applying to the IRB

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is excited to announce that it is transitioning from a paper-based submission system to an electronic application platform, Axiom Mentor. Virtually all IRB business will be conducted using this new system. Using the Mentor system, you can submit, receive reviewer comments, amend, and receive approval letters electronically. Logging into Mentor uses your NEIUport login.

Studies that do not qualify for exemption or expedited review must be reviewed by the IRB at a convened meeting (Full Board review). Studies requiring Full Board review present more than minimal risk to subjects, and/or involve populations, such as children, prisoners, and/or other groups with diminished capacity to consent (e.g., Alzheimer's patients) or vulnerable to coercion or undue influence. Only the IRB can make a final determination concerning the level of review required for a given study.

Getting started with mentor

When logging in to Mentor, the Institution ID is "neiu" (lower case). The username and password is the same as your NEIUport login credentials.

Appendices

Appendices are required to be submitted with your application for research with certain subject pools:

Ceding to external irb

NEIU Authorization Agreement

Human Subjects Research at the Chicago Public Schools

If you are conducting research in the Chicago Public Schools, a separate proposal must be submitted to the Chicago Public Schools Research Review Board (CPS RRB) for review. Read information about the CPS RRB and its policies and procedures.

Protocol Checklists

Recruitment Materials

Research Involving Children

Translation Certification

NEIU Translation Certification Form

Submission Instructions

Please submit your IRB application with the supporting materials on Mentor.

Questions about the application process? Contact the IRB Office at irb@neiu.edu.

IRB Policies and SOPs

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IRB Policies and SOPs

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This section contains policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for IRB review and administration. The SOPs reflect the IRB’s understanding and interpretation of the federal regulations that protect human subjects in research, applicable state and local laws, and best practices. The SOPs serve as a reference for IRB members, IRB staff, and investigators involved in human subjects research at Northeastern.

Human Subjects Research Policy

Policy on Human Subjects Research

IRB Standard Operating Procedures (Faculty)

IRB Standard Operating Procedures (Students)

IRB Standard Operating Procedures (External Researcher)

SOP External Research Requests

Opportunity: Research Internships for undergraduates and graduate students

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Opportunity: Research Internships for undergraduates and graduate students

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Apply for a paid research internship!

The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is a virtual organization dedicated to providing open, persistent, robust, and secure access to biodiversity and environmental data, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. They are offering paid, 9-week internships on a wide range of research projects from May 23rd to July 22nd, 2016. There is no specification for background degree or major for most of the projects:

Exploring the Impact of DataONE: Data Publication and Access Metrics
Semantic Entity Extraction and Linking for Annotation and Ontology Evolution
Developing a Survey Instrument for Evaluation of Teaching Materials
Emerging Research Communities: Fulfilling the Potential of Open Access Earth Science Data
Reproducibility of Script-Based Workflows: A Case Study and Demonstration

The deadline to apply is March 14th, midnight mountain time.

Learn more about DataONE

For eligibility and application information and details about the projects, please visit DataONE Internships below.

DataONE Internships

Financial Conflict of Interest

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Financial Conflict of Interest

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Financial Conflicts of Interest for Funded Research

91Porn requires that investigators disclose any significant financial interest that would reasonably appear to affect sponsored research. Specifically, researchers funded by PHS must disclose significant financial interests (SFIs) that are reasonably related to the research or to an investigator’s University responsibilities that in any way could bias the design, conduct or implementation, management, and reporting of research data. The University will have a mechanism for the investigators to disclose SFIs and University-designated officials to determine if an SFI represents a Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI). Determination of the existence of an FCOI will lead to the development of a University-approved management plan to manage or eliminate the FCOI. The disclosure and management of the FCOI will occur before the University releases any funds to investigators for expenditure.

The resources below provide researchers with more information about recognizing and disclosing FCOI’s.

Policy on Financial Conflicts of Interest for Public Health Services (PHS) Investigators
Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form for Sponsored Projects
Getting Started with the CITI Program Conflicts of Interest Basic Course
- Guidelines for users already registered with CITI
- Guidelines for users who are new to CITI

Questions? Please contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects at ORSP@neiu.edu or (773) 442 4671.

Post-Award Conference

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Post-Award Conference

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Once a grant has been awarded, Principal Investigators must make an appointment with ORSP to have a post-award conference. This conference reviews the terms of the grant, the approved budget, the implementation of the institutional commitment, and other aspects of grants management critical to the successful stewardship of external funds. Below are the expectations for the conference:

Before the meeting:

Send Grant Cover Sheet and Budget Sheet to Project Director/ Principal Investigator (PD/PI)
Receive filled out Grant Cover Sheet and Budget Sheet electronically from PD/PI

At the meeting:

Review the award notification/letter/email/(sub)contract agreement
Review terms and conditions, key allowable/unallowable costs
Review report schedule
Review time and effort of key personnel, provide reminder to inform Chair and Dean about any course releases and/or summer months.
Remind PD/PI to ensure course release(s) and/or summer month(s) paperwork is initiated at department level
Review the submitted proposal as needed for:
1. Project objectives
2. Timeline
3. Human subjects (IRB) requirements, as appropriate
Post-award Packet - PD/PI signature(s) for these items:
1. Budget Transfer Request
2. Application for Fund Number
3. Signatory Cards: Payroll-white, Accounts payable-green, Purchasing-green
4. Financial Information Request Form – Banner access Provide PD/PI responsibilities sheet

After the meeting: Copy and scan Post-award Packet before submitting to the Budget Office, email PD/PI and other Fiscal Agents a scanned copy.

For more information, please contact ORSP staff at orsp@neiu.edu

Grant Prospects for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Grant Prospects for Faculty from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

These proposal deadlines are for 2015-2016. Please click on the web address for the grant you are interested in. Read the application guidelines carefully to determine if the grant is a good fit for your project. For further guidance on considering these opportunities, please contact your chair and the staff of the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (orsp@neiu.edu).

Grant Name	Deadline	Web Address	Notes
Awards for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions	4/13/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/awards-faculty-hispanic-serving-institutions	Faculty award. Supports individual faculty or staff members at Hispanic-Serving Institutions pursuing research of value to humanities scholars, students, or general audiences. Awards are designed to be flexible, allowing applicants to define the audience, type of research, award periods, and administrative arrangements that best fit their projects. Awards can be used for a wide range of projects that are based on humanities research. Eligible projects include pursuing research in primary and secondary materials; producing articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources; and conducting basic research leading to the improvement of an existing undergraduate course or the achievement of institutional or community research goals. Common to all applications—regardless of their outcome—must be humanities research supporting the goals of the project.
Dialogues on the Experience of War	9/15/2015	http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/dialogues-the-experience-war	The program supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war, in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others to think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. The humanities sources can be drawn from history, philosophy, literature, and film—and they may and should be supplemented by testimonials from those who have served. The discussions are intended to promote serious exploration of important questions about the nature of duty, heroism, suffering, loyalty, and patriotism. The program awards grants of up to $100,000 that will support 1. the recruitment and training of discussion leaders; and 2. following the training program, the convening of at least two discussion programs. The discussion groups can take place on college and university campuses, in veterans’ centers, at public libraries and museums, and at other community venues. Most of the participants in the discussion groups should be military veterans; others, such as men and women in active service, military families, and interested members of the public, may participate as well.
NEH Fellowships	4/28/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships	Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.
Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions	6/23/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/humanities-initiatives-hispanic-serving-institutions	NEH Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions are intended to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities in subjects such as history, philosophy, and literature. These grants may be used to enhance existing humanities programs, resources, or courses, or to develop new ones.
Public Scholar Program	2/2/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/public-scholar-program	The Public Scholar program aims to encourage scholarship that will be of broad interest and have lasting impact. Such scholarship might present a narrative history, tell the stories of important individuals, analyze significant texts, provide a synthesis of ideas, revive interest in a neglected subject, or examine the latest thinking on a topic. Books supported by this program must be grounded in humanities research and scholarship. They must address significant humanities themes likely to be of broad interest and must be written in a readily accessible style. Making use of primary and/or secondary sources, they should open up important and appealing subjects for wider audiences. The challenge is to make sense of a significant topic in a way that will appeal to general readers. By establishing the Public Scholar program, NEH enters a long-term commitment to encourage scholarship in the humanities for general audiences. In the early rounds of the competition, NEH especially welcomes applicants who are in the writing stages of their projects or who already have a commitment from a publisher. However, the Public Scholar program also supports projects in the early stages of development. The program is open to both individuals affiliated with scholarly institutions and independent scholars.
Summer Seminars and Institutes	2/25/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/summer-seminars-and-institutes	These grants support faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers and for college and university teachers. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as five weeks. NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes extend and deepen knowledge and understanding of the humanities by focusing on significant topics and texts; contribute to the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; build communities of inquiry and provide models of civility and excellent scholarship and teaching; and link teaching and research in the humanities. An NEH Summer Seminar or Institute may be hosted by a college, university, learned society, center for advanced study, library or other repository, cultural or professional organization, or school or school system. The host site must be suitable for the project, providing facilities for scholarship and collegial interaction. These programs are designed for a national audience of teachers. Note that NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes may be held only in the United States and its territories. Projects in foreign countries are no longer supported.
Summer Stipends	10/1/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends	Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. Summer Stipends support continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. Summer Stipends support projects at any stage of development. Summer Stipends are awarded to individual scholars. Organizations are not eligible to apply.
Collaborative Research Grants	12/9/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/collaborative-research-grants	Collaborative Research Grants support interpretive humanities research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; field work; applications of information technology; and technical support and services. All grantees are expected to communicate the results of their work to the appropriate scholarly and public audiences. Eligible projects include research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding of the humanities; conferences on topics of major importance in the humanities that will benefit scholarly research; archaeological projects that include the interpretation and communication of results (projects may encompass excavation, materials analysis, laboratory work, field reports, and preparation of interpretive monographs); and research that uses the knowledge and perspectives of the humanities and historical or philosophical methods to enhance understanding of science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.
Common Heritage	6/21/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/common-heritage	America’s cultural heritage is preserved not only in libraries, museums, archives, and other community organizations, but also in all of our homes, family histories, and life stories. The Common Heritage program aims to capture this vitally important part of our country’s heritage and preserve it for future generations. Common Heritage will support both the digitization of cultural heritage materials and the organization of public programming at community events that explore these materials as a window on a community’s history and culture. The Common Heritage program recognizes that members of the public—in partnership with libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations—have much to contribute to the understanding of our cultural mosaic. Together, such institutions and the public can be effective partners in the appreciation and stewardship of our common heritage. The program supports day-long events organized by community cultural institutions, which members of the public will be invited to attend. At these events experienced staff will digitize the community historical materials brought in by the public. Project staff will also record descriptive information—provided by community attendees—about the historical materials. Contributors will be given a free digital copy of their items to take home, along with the original materials. With the owner’s permission, digital copies of these materials would be included in the institutions’ collections. Historical photographs, artifacts, documents, family letters, art works, and audiovisual recordings are among the many items eligible for digitization and public commemoration. Projects must also present public programming that would expand knowledge of the community’s history. Public programs could include lectures, panels, reading and discussion, special gallery tours, screening and discussion of relevant films, presentations by a historian, special initiatives for families and children, or comments by curators about items brought in by the public. These public programs should provide a framework for a deeper understanding of the community members’ shared or divergent histories. The programs may take place before, during, and/or after the day of the digitization event. Applicants may but need not include in their proposals a topic around which the event and the public programming would be organized. Topics proposed for the public programming may also be proposed for the digitization event. The applicant institution must plan, promote, and organize the event and ensure that a wide range of historical materials can be digitized and also contextualized through public programming. Since the help of additional institutions and organizations in the community may be needed to accomplish this work, the applicant must take responsibility for enlisting appropriate organizations or institutions, such as local libraries and museums, to contribute to the project, as needed. NEH especially welcomes applications from small and medium-sized institutions that have not previously received NEH support.
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants	2/17/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-implementation-grants	This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities. The program can support innovative digital-humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public. Applications from recipients of NEH’s Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants are welcome. Unlike NEH’s start-up grant program, which emphasizes basic research, prototyping, experimentation, and potential impact, the Digital Humanities Implementation Grants program seeks to identify projects that have successfully completed their start-up phase and are well positioned to have a major impact. Proposals are welcome for digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Implementation Grants may involve research that brings new approaches or documents best practices in the study of the digital humanities; implementation of computationally-based methods or techniques for humanities research; implementation of new digital tools for use in humanities research, public programming, or educational settings; efforts to ensure the completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources (typically in conjunction with a library or archive); scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society; scholarship or studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanities, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; or implementation of new digital modes of scholarly communication that facilitate peer review, collaboration, or the dissemination of humanities scholarship for various audiences.
Digital Humanities Start-up Grants	9/16/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-start-grants	The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program awards relatively small grants to support the planning stages of digital projects that promise to benefit the humanities. The program supports both new projects in early stages of development and efforts to reinvigorate existing or dormant projects in innovative ways. Proposals should be for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods or techniques for humanities research, teaching, preservation, or public programming; pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical or practical implications and impact of digital humanities in specific fields or disciplines; or revitalizing and/or recovering existing digital projects that promise to contribute substantively to scholarship, teaching, or public knowledge of the humanities. Experimentation, reuse, and extensibility are hallmarks of this grant category, which incorporates the “high risk/high reward” paradigm often used by funding agencies in the sciences. NEH is requesting proposals for projects that take some risks in the pursuit of innovation and excellence. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation. They can also be used to revitalize or recover projects in innovative ways that will allow greater access, reuse, and extensibility.
Digital Projects for the Public	6/8/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/public/digital-projects-the-public	Digital Projects for the Public grants support projects that significantly contribute to the public’s engagement with the humanities. Digital platforms—such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments—can reach diverse audiences and bring the humanities to life for the American people. The program offers three levels of support for digital projects: grants for Discovery projects (early-stage planning work), Prototyping projects (proof-of-concept development work), and Production projects (end-stage production and distribution work). While projects can take many forms, shapes, and sizes, your request should be for an exclusively digital project or for a digital component of a larger project. All Digital Projects for the Public projects should deepen public understanding of significant humanities stories and ideas; incorporate sound humanities scholarship; involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and production; include appropriate digital media professionals; reach a broad public through a realistic plan for development, marketing, and distribution; create appealing digital formats for the general public; and demonstrate the capacity to sustain themselves. All projects should also demonstrate the potential to attract a broad, general, nonspecialist audience, either online or in person at venues such as museums, libraries or other cultural institutions. Applicants may choose to identify particular communities and groups, including students, to whom a project may have particular appeal.
Documenting Endangered Languages	9/15/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/documenting-endangered-languages	The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6000-7000 currently used languages, this effort aims also to exploit advances in information technology. Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. DEL funding is available in the form of one- to three-year project grants as well as fellowships for six to twelve months. At least half the available funding will be awarded to projects involving fieldwork. All DEL applications are submitted to NSF for review. Upon completion of the review process, the administration of awards is conducted separately by NEH or NSF. Application materials are available on the National Science Foundation's website.
Enduring Questions	9/10/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions	The NEH Enduring Questions grant program supports faculty members in the preparation of a new course on a fundamental concern of human life as addressed by the humanities. This question-driven course would encourage undergraduates and teachers to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential ideas, works, and thinkers over the centuries. What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate. Are there universals in human nature? What is the source of moral authority? What is evil? Can war be just? Is peace possible? What is worth dying for? What is the value of education? Can greed be good? What is good government? What is progress? Am I my brother’s keeper? Enduring questions persist across historical eras, regions, and world cultures. They inform intellectual, ethical, artistic, and religious traditions and engage thoughtful people from all walks of life. They transcend time and place but are also relevant to our lives today. Enduring questions have more than one plausible or compelling answer, allow for dialogue across generations, and inspire genuine intellectual pluralism. The course is to be developed by one or more (up to four) faculty members at a single institution, but not team taught. Enduring Questions courses must be taught from a common syllabus and must be offered during the grant period at least twice by each faculty member involved in developing the course. The grant supports the work of faculty members in designing, preparing, and assessing the new course. It may also be used for ancillary activities that enhance faculty-student intellectual community, such as visits to museums and artistic or cultural events. An Enduring Questions course may be taught by faculty from any department or discipline in the humanities or by faculty outside the humanities (for example, astronomy, biology, economics, law, mathematics, medicine, or psychology), so long as humanities sources are central to the course.
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan	4/28/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships-advanced-social-science-research-japan	The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan's international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations. The program encourages innovative research that puts these subjects in wider regional and global contexts and is comparative and contemporary in nature. Research should contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of issues of concern to Japan and the United States. Appropriate disciplines for the research include anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, political science, psychology, public administration, and sociology. Awards usually result in articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources. The fellowships are designed for researchers with advanced language skills whose research will require use of data, sources, and documents in their original languages or whose research requires interviews onsite in direct one-on-one contact. Fellows may undertake their projects in Japan, the United States, or both, and may include work in other countries for comparative purposes. Projects may be at any stage of development.
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources	7/19/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/humanities-collections-and-reference-resources	The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR) program supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. HCRR offers two kinds of awards: 1) for implementation and 2) for planning, assessment, and pilot efforts (HCRR Foundations grants).
Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities	3/15/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/institutes-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities	These NEH grants support national or regional (multi-state) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities. The projects may be a single opportunity or offered multiple times to different audiences. Institutes may be as short as a few days and held at multiple locations or as long as six weeks at a single site. For example, training opportunities could be offered before or after regularly occurring scholarly meetings, during the summer months, or during appropriate times of the academic year. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. Today, complex data—its form, manipulation, and interpretation—are as important to humanities study as more traditional research materials. Datasets, for example, may represent digitized historical records, high-quality image data, or even multimedia collections, all of which are increasing in number due to the availability and affordability of mass data storage devices and international initiatives to create digital content. Moreover, extensive networking capabilities, sophisticated analytical tools, and new collaboration platforms are simultaneously providing and improving interactive access to and analysis of these data as well as a multitude of other resources. The Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program seeks to enable humanities scholars in the United States to incorporate advances like these into their scholarship and teaching.
Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers	2/25/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/education/landmarks-american-history-and-culture-workshops-school-teachers	The Landmarks of American History and Culture program supports a series of one-week residence-based workshops for a national audience of K-12 educators. NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops use historic sites to address central themes and issues in American history, government, literature, art, music, and related subjects in the humanities. Each workshop is offered twice during the summer. Workshops accommodate thirty-six school teachers (NEH Summer Scholars) at each one-week session. The goals of the workshops are to increase knowledge and appreciation of subjects, ideas, and places significant to American history and culture through humanities reading and site study; build communities of inquiry and provide models of civility and of excellent scholarship and teaching; provide teachers with expertise in the use and interpretation of historical sites and of material and archival resources; and foster interaction between K-12 educators and scholarly experts. NEH Landmarks Workshops are academically rigorous and focus on key primary sources and scholarly works relevant to major themes of American history and culture. Leading scholars should serve as lecturers or seminar leaders. Workshops should also enable participants to work with primary documents and develop a project. NEH Landmarks Workshops are held at or near sites important to American history and culture, such as presidential residences or libraries; colonial-era settlements; major battlefields; historic districts; parks and preserves; sites of key economic, social, political, and constitutional developments; and places associated with major writers, artists, and musicians. Applicants should make a compelling case for the historical significance of the site(s), the material resources available for use, and the ways in which the site(s) will enhance the workshop. NEH Landmarks Workshops may be hosted by institutions or organizations such as community colleges, universities, four-year colleges, learned societies, libraries or other repositories, centers for advanced study, cultural organizations, professional associations, and schools or school systems. NEH expects host institutions to provide facilities conducive to scholarly engagement with topics and sites. Host institutions should arrange suitable housing for participants, which participants pay for from stipends provided by NEH.
Preservation and Access Education and Training	5/3/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training	The Preservation and Access Education and Training program is central to NEH’s efforts to preserve and establish access to cultural heritage collections. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture collections, electronic records, and digital objects. The challenge of preserving and making accessible such large and diverse holdings is enormous, and the need for knowledgeable staff is significant and ongoing. Preservation and Access Education and Training grants are awarded to organizations that offer national or regional (multi-state) education and training programs. Grants aim to help the staff of cultural institutions, large and small, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that introduce the staff of cultural institutions to new information and advances in preservation and access practices.
Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions	5/3/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-assistance-grants-smaller-institutions	Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials. Applicants must draw on the knowledge of consultants whose preservation skills and experience are related to the types of collections and the nature of the activities on which their projects focus. Within the conservation field, for example, conservators usually specialize in the care of specific types of collections, such as objects, paper, or paintings. Applicants should therefore choose a conservator whose specialty is appropriate for the nature of their collections. Similarly, when assessing the preservation needs of library, museum, or archival holdings, applicants must seek a consultant specifically knowledgeable about the preservation of these types of collections. The program encourages applications from small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant. The program also encourages applications from presidentially designated institutions (Hispanic-serving institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Tribal Colleges and Universities), and from Native American tribes with significant humanities collections.
Research and Development	6/21/16	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/research-and-development	The Research and Development program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of organizing, searching, discovering, and using such materials. This program recognizes that finding solutions to complex problems often requires forming interdisciplinary project teams, bringing together participants with expertise in the humanities; in preservation; and in information, computer, and natural science. All projects must demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in supporting humanities research, teaching, or public programming.
Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants	12/9/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants	Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. Typically, the texts and documents are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials; but other types of work, such as musical notation, are also eligible. Projects must be undertaken by a team of at least one editor or translator and one other staff member. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Applicants should demonstrate familiarity with the best practices recommended by the Association for Documentary Editing or the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions. Translation projects should also explain the approach adopted for the particular work to be translated. Editions and translations produced with NEH support contain scholarly and critical apparatus appropriate to the subject matter and format of the edition. This usually means introductions and annotations that provide essential information about the form, transmission, and historical and intellectual context of the texts and documents involved. Proposals for editions of foreign language materials in the original language are eligible for funding, as well as proposals for editions of translated materials.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections	12/1/15	http://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections	Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections. Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country face an enormous challenge: to preserve collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities. Ensuring the preservation of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects requires institutions to implement measures that slow deterioration and prevent catastrophic loss. This work is best accomplished through preventive conservation, which encompasses managing relative humidity, temperature, light, and pollutants in collection spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguarding collections from theft and from natural and man-made disasters. As museums, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, they must find ways to implement preventive conservation measures that are sustainable. This program therefore helps cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies that pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact. Sustainable approaches to preservation can contribute to an institution’s financial health, reduce its use of fossil fuels, and benefit its green initiatives, while ensuring that collections are well cared for and available for use in humanities programming, education, and research. All applicants, whether applying for planning or implementation projects, are required to focus on sustainable preventive conservation strategies.

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