CSDE Trainee Mark Nepf (Evans School) received the Applied Research Fellowship from UW’s Population Health Initiative for Summer 2025. This program, implemented in partnership with CSDE, offers students training in data analysis, critical thinking and team science skills that will help them solve complex population health challenges on their way to becoming future leaders in population health. Learn more about this fellowship here.

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas.

Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community.

Proposed research plans must address questions that are relevant to policy and practice in the Foundation’s focus areas:

1) Reducing inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5–25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins, and

2) Improving the use of research evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States.

Pre-Proposal Instructions:

Please submit as one combined pdf labeled with PI’s Lastname, Firstname:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach.
2. If the final application requires a diversity statement or statement of broader impacts, please summarize your plans to address the specific requirements on an additional page.
3. CV (not biosketch) of the PI.

to limitedsubs@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Proposals are due to the sponsor 7/1/2025, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 6/20/2025 if given the go‐ahead by the Limited Submissions review committee. Note: there is also a 6/11/25 sponsor deadline for mentor and reference letters.

The CSDE Development Core is once again hosting its annual Grant Writing Summer Program (GWSP) to assist scholars in preparing applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Applications are now open for this program! More info is available here, and the application page here. Make sure to read all the FAQ’s – there’s lots of good info in there! Past participants report great success, and lots of support and even fun along the way.

Applying to the GWSP is open to CSDE affiliates (UW and external) as well as to local post-docs writing K awards with one or more CSDE affiliates on their mentoring team. If accepted, the program is free for applicants in these groups. Other researchers in the Seattle area are also eligible to apply and may be accepted if space is available.  The program fee is $7,500 for these applicants. (Current graduate students are not eligible to apply, sorry).

Application review will begin on May 9. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis until May 23.

Questions?  See the info page, or contact Steve Goodreau (goodreau@uw.edu).

The Office of Research invites you to join a group of UW researchers in a peer learning workshop on documenting and communicating the societal impacts of research. We seek interested researchers from any of the three campuses, any department or school, and any position responsible for leading research. Due to substantial interest in this event, this workshop will be held twice. Learn more and apply here.