Research Archive

  • WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2024 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. Proposals must be submitted electronically by close of business (5:00 pm CT) on Mon., April 1, 2024, to the Office of Sponsored Research

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  • I-Corps @ NCATS Training on ‘Scaling for Sustainability’ Starts February 2, 2024

    I-Corps @ NCATS Training on ‘Scaling for Sustainability’ Starts February 2, 2024

    Do you want to learn how to accelerate, scale and sustain the translation of your social science research, biomedical discoveries and health innovations into viable products, impactful services and programs? Enroll today in the I-Corps@NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translational Science) training program. 

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  • Registration Open for Winter Session of Essentials of Patient-Oriented Research (EPOR), “Ethics of Clinical Research”

    Registration Open for Winter Session of Essentials of Patient-Oriented Research (EPOR), “Ethics of Clinical Research”

    Please note that registration for the Winter session of Essentials of Patient-Oriented Research (EPOR), “Ethics of Clinical Research”, is now open. The Winter EPOR course meets the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training requirement for trainees receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) and/or National Science Foundation (NSF) funding.

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  • Community-Engaged Research Funding Opportunity for Early Career Investigators

    Community-Engaged Research Funding Opportunity for Early Career Investigators

    Sponsored by the Institute of Translation Medicine (ITM), this 4-hour seminar series targets early-career investigators conducting community-engaged research. Attendees affiliated with ITM will receive assistance with developing community partnerships, and be eligible to apply for $30,000 pilot awards towards direct costs beginning in summer 2024.

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  • Social Sciences Professor Spending Sabbatical in South Africa and India

    Social Sciences Professor Spending Sabbatical in South Africa and India

    With the support of a small grant from the Illinois Tech Department of Humanities, Patrick Ireland, Professor of Political Science, completed the field research this past March for a project begun during his last sabbatical in AY 2014-2015 that compares the presence and effects of West African migrants in urban spaces in Dakar, Tangier, and Barcelona: how urban development policies shape their lives and livelihoods and, in turn, how they challenge and alter the sociopolitical context, raising questions about rights, membership, and lived diversity. Since July, he has been a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa, writing up the study results.

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  • Volunteers With Current Binge Eating Sought for Sleep and Eating Study

    Volunteers With Current Binge Eating Sought for Sleep and Eating Study

    Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology are seeking participants for a research study examining sleep and other psychological factors that may contribute to eating disorder symptoms, such as binge eating.

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  • Participate in an Interview Study on Ethical Issues Connected With Antibiotic-Resistant Rapid Tests

    Participate in an Interview Study on Ethical Issues Connected With Antibiotic-Resistant Rapid Tests

    You are invited to participate in an interview study that explores the ethical implications of a rapid test for detecting antibiotic-resistant bacteria and similar infections, without the need to send biological samples to a laboratory.

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  • Volunteers With Current Binge Eating Sought for Sleep and Eating Study

    Volunteers With Current Binge Eating Sought for Sleep and Eating Study

    Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology are seeking participants for a research study examining sleep and other psychological factors that may contribute to eating disorder symptoms, such as binge eating. Participants must be at least 18 years old, assigned female at birth (including gender-diverse adults) and currently experiencing binge eating.

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  • Researchers Conducting Survey Study for Individuals With Lived Experience of Suicidality

    Researchers Conducting Survey Study for Individuals With Lived Experience of Suicidality

    Researchers from Illinois Institute of Technology's National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment are conducting a 15-to-20-minute anonymous online questionnaire about people's experience talking about (i.e.) disclosing suicidality. Participants will help researchers understand why people may or may not tell others about their past experiences with suicide.

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  • Community-Engaged Research Seminar: Pipeline to Funding

    Community-Engaged Research Seminar: Pipeline to Funding

    This 4-hour seminar series targets early-career investigators or more seasoned investigators who wish to add community-engaged research onto an existing project. Attendees affiliated with the Institute of Translational Medicine will receive assistance with developing community partnerships and be eligible to apply for $25,000 pilot awards beginning in fall 2023. Those not affiliated with the Institute of Translational Medicine are still eligible to apply and be a part of this training series.

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