CUNY Office of Research

🚨 Attention CUNY STEM Tenure-Track Assistant Professors and Department Heads! 🚨 Applications are now open for the Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY 2025-26 NSF CAREER Proposal Bootcamp! 📝 📅 Deadline: Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 5 PM (ET) 📌 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eZ-jiFJT This bootcamp helps eligible faculty develop competitive proposals for NSF’s prestigious CAREER award. Don't miss this opportunity! 📩 Questions? Contact: lvigdor@gc.cuny.edu #CUNYFaculty #NSFCAREER #STEMResearch #CUNY ASRC

🎉 Exciting News from the Office of Research! 📚✨ We are thrilled to announce the relaunch of the Book Completion Award (BCA) grant program! https://lnkd.in/evdkN5hp This program supports faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who are transforming their research projects into publishable book manuscripts. Whether you're in the development and prospectus stage or finalizing a manuscript that’s been accepted for publication, this grant is here to help you cross the finish line. 🏆 What’s at stake? Up to $7,500 in RF funding Award period: April 2025 – June 30, 2026 Up to 20 awards available 📅 Important Dates: Proposals Due: March 12, 2025 Awards Announced: April 2025 For full guidelines and details, visit our website (linked above) Let’s support groundbreaking scholarship together! #FacultySupport #BookCompletionAward #ResearchinFocus

Interested in the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship? It is an $8,000 unrestricted cash grant available to artists living in New York State and/or one of the Tribal Nations. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant, but is intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, at all levels of their artistic development.Deadline is December 17, 2024. https://lnkd.in/e-VHVA9S

Hunter College Professor of animal behavior, Dr. Josh Plotnik, talks about his work studying elephants on 60 Minutes. https://lnkd.in/eghSti5f

It’s back! The Research in the Classroom (RIC) grant program. Eligible full-time faculty and lecturers across all disciplines are invited to apply for a RIC Fellowship, worth up to $10,000. These grants can be used for course releases, summer salaries, research materials, or student travel. Awardees are expected to implement their course designs in the 2025-2026 academic year and share their curricular materials as Open Educational Resources (OER).  Proposals are due by January 3, 2025. https://lnkd.in/eAHgx9e8

The CUNY Climate Consortium (C3) invites you to the first event in its Collaborative Research Workshop Series, focused on New York City's FloodNet project. This workshop will bring together CUNY’s diverse expertise to collaboratively address flooding challenges in NYC and similar urban areas. By harnessing knowledge from across disciplines, we aim to co-create equitable solutions and foster new research partnerships. The event will take place on Thursday, November 21st, from 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the CUNY Central Office,205 E 42nd st, Room 818. We encourage participation from faculty, students, and staff across CUNY who are interested in climate research, data science, urban planning, public health, and community engagement. If you have any inquiries or require additional information, please contact Parisa Setayesh at msetayesh@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

Congrats to CUNY! 10 CUNY Colleges have been designated by the State Department as 'Fulbright HSI Leaders'. This is the most of any university system in the nation and the only schools with the designation in NY state. The 2024 list includes the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center in the doctoral category; and Baruch College, the College of Staten Island, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lehman College and Queens College for master’s programs. In the associate degree category, Borough of Manhattan Community College and Bronx Community College each received the HSI Leader designation for the first time

The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) is excited to announce our 2024 Network Challenge Grantees, whose public interest technology (#PIT) projects will advance equitable innovation in technology across academia, government and civil society. In its sixth year, the Network Challenge will distribute just under $1 million to 10 projects led by PIT-UN members. City University of New York Pipelines and Pop-ups: Generating Pathways into Careers in Public Interest Technology Principal Investigators: Kathleen Cumiskey, Effie MacLachlan 2024 Network Challenge Announcement Graphics We’re honored to be a #PITUN #NetworkChallenge24 grantee! Principal Investigators Kathleen Cumiskey, Effie MacLachlan will build on our partnership with BetaNYC to create accessible tech credentials in the CUNY system, build our PIT Lab as an innovation hub, and launch the NYC PIT Pop-Up. Check out our fellow Network Challenge grantees and the impact of this unique program to advance equitable innovation in technology: https://lnkd.in/e_9FH_fx

CUNY faculty make the case for climate justice at the start of Climate Week in New York. https://lnkd.in/gaThxrzs

CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez reports a record-high $672 million in External Research awards for fiscal year 2024. This milestone reflects CUNY's efforts to support more than 10,000 faculty researchers and expand the impact of their work.