Faculty Webinars & Workshops

Join us for a town hall to explore the exciting possibilities with the NSF's CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine. Discover new funding opportunities and learn how you can actively participate in this new initiative!

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced that the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine is an inaugural NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines). The CO-WY Engine will initially receive up to $15 million for the next two years. Through the NSF Engines program, NSF aims to expand the frontiers of technology and innovation, spur economic growth across the nation, and transform entire geographic regions into world-leading hubs of innovation.

The CO-WY Engine is a groundbreaking initiative, set to catalyze a series of significant outcomes that will reshape the landscape of climate technology and regional economic development in Colorado and Wyoming. The first major outcome is the development and commercialization of advanced climate-resilient technologies. These technologies - spanning from environmental monitoring to predictive analytics - aim to empower communities, governments, and industries to effectively navigate and adapt to the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change.

By focusing on innovative solutions in areas like wildfire mitigation, water resource management, sustainable agriculture and adaptation to extreme weather events, the CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine is poised to revolutionize how we understand, predict and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

The CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine is set to have a profound impact on workforce development and community engagement, and places a strong emphasis on inclusive growth, ensuring that these economic benefits reach across diverse communities.

We look forward to hosting CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine leadership for their inaugural Town Hall for the CU Boulder campus.

• Who: CU Boulder scholars, researchers, creators, and innovators interested in the CO-WY Engine
• When: Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 9-10am
• Where: UMC Aspen Room 285

Register Here (Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) offers this 30-minute informal Office Hours with Research Development Specialist Donna Axel. Bring your questions about searching for funding opportunities, identifying appropriate sponsors, and learning ways RIO supports you in your scholarly research and creative work.

RIO's Search for Funding webpage

Please have your VPN activated and CU Boulder identikey credentials.

• Who: All CU Boulder Faculty, Research Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students
• When: June 5, 2024 2-2:30 p.m. MT
• Where: Virtual via Zoom

Register Here (Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

Join representatives from Core Facilities across the CU Boulder campus, as well as colleagues from Industry, for our showcase event highlighting CU Boulder's Core Facilities alongside representatives from Local Industry that work with our Cores! Open to those within and outside of the CU Boulder community, this event will connect you with the equipment, instrumentation and services to help you achieve your research goals, as well as local industry for future employment opportunities! Refreshments will be provided! Please register by Thursday, June 13th, for the 2024 CU Boulder Core Facilities Open House.

• Who: Anyone interested in using CU Boulder Core Facilities within academia, industry and beyond!
• When: Thursday, June 20, 2024, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. MT
• Where: Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) C120, 4001 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303
• Why?
  
  • Cores facilitate scientific discovery while increasing rigor and reproducibility.
  • Equipment sharing through cores advances efficiency and sustainability in research as well as inclusive and equitable access to resources. 
  • Strengthening our relationships with local industry increases our impact on the regional scientific community.

We encourage attendees to use public transportation options as parking is limited.

• Guest Parking Information for the SEEC Building.

Register Here by 6/13

Are you planning to submit a proposal to one of the many Fellowship opportunities with a deadline this Fall? Would you like to reuse, repurpose and recycle that proposal at a later date or for another opportunity? Join RIO Proposal Writer Donna Axel at this brief 30-minute introduction to RIO’s Fall Fellowship Writing & Peer Editing Program to see if this virtual program is right for you. From July through September, participants will draft proposals and participate in one peer editing workshop (August-September, TBD) to hone the narrative portion of Fellowship applications. These opportunities include: AAUW [American Association of University Women] due Nov. 1; ACLS [American Council of Learned Societies] due TBA, typically late Sept.; NHC [National Humanities Center] due Oct. 3; SHC [Stanford Humanities Center] due Oct. 1; Guggenheim due mid-Sept; or others—just let us know!

• Who: T/TT Arts and Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Faculty interested in applying for a Fellowship with deadlines this Fall.
• When: Tuesday, July 16, 2024.
  Attend either: 10am-10:30am OR 4pm-4:30pm

Register Here (10am) 

Register Here (4pm) 

(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

Categories and Requirements is a 1-hour webinar for faculty interested in applying for one or more of the Fellowships due this Fall. RIO Proposal Writer Donna Axel will demystify the solicitation by going over select opportunity’s instructions with a focus on the required categories and review criteria specific to the opportunity. In addition, Donna will highlight key ways to develop a strong proposal, including sharing sample categories used in winning narratives, as well as sample winning narratives. This is an excellent opportunity to ask any questions you might have before beginning your draft!

• Who: T/TT Arts and Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Faculty interested in applying for a Fellowship this Fall.
• When: Thursday, July 25, 2024
• Where: These events will be hosted via Zoom

Register for whichever session is of interest:

Register Here (10am) 

Register Here (4pm) 

​(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

Facilitated by Donna Axel, faculty participate in one small peer editing working group of 3-5. This workshop will provide space to discuss any feedback/suggestions from colleagues, and each session will last approximately 1.5-2 hours. One week in advance of this workshop, faculty will exchange drafts and provide comments using the NEH categories and requirements/review criteria. Then, during this peer review session, faculty will discuss their comments and use the time to ask questions regarding drafts. Day/time TBD by faculty group.

• Who: T/TT Arts and Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Faculty who are interested in applying for a Fellowship this Fall.
• When: TBD, Faculty determine one convenient day/time per group
• Where: These workshops will be hosted via Zoom
• Availability: Registration capped at 20 T/TT Faculty who have attended the Kickoff AND/OR the Categories and Requirements workshops. Small groups for peer editing will be 2-5 faculty.

Register here:

• TBD 

​(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) offers this 30-minute informal Office Hours with Research Development Specialist Donna Axel. Bring your questions about searching for funding opportunities, identifying appropriate sponsors, and learning ways RIO supports you in your scholarly research and creative work.

RIO's Search for Funding webpage

Please have your VPN activated and CU Boulder identikey credentials.

• Who: All CU Boulder Faculty, Research Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students
• When: August 1, 2024 2-2:30 p.m. MT
• Where: Virtual via Zoom

Register Here (Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)

Three CU Boulder faculty members will share their success stories—and their processes—for applying for fellowships:

• Elspeth Dusinberre from the Department of Classics, awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (2023)
• Emmanuel David from Women & Gender Studies, awarded the National Humanities Center (NHC) Fellowship (2022)
• Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders from History, awarded the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (2023)

This virtual program is designed to inspire faculty who are interested in applying for a fellowship. We celebrate these successful faculty and learn from their experiences applying for fellowships. What strategies did they use? Did they apply to more than one? Is it important to reuse, repurpose, and recycle proposals? Join us and learn their paths to successful winning proposals.

• Who: Details coming soon!
• When: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 (Time TBD)
• Where: These events will be hosted via Zoom
• Availability: Details coming soon!

Register Here 

(Please register using your CU Boulder IdentiKey Login email.)