🚨 NSF CAREER Webinar Alert — Don’t Miss This! 🚨

Are you planning to submit a National Science Foundation CAREER proposal this year? This is your chance to hear directly from program officers.

📅 Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 and/or  May 19, 2026

🕑 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM (EDT)
💻 Format: Virtual (Zoom)

Click here Free Registration:  Webinar Registration - Zoom

Join the NSF CAREER Program Informational Webinar to get:

✔️ Key insights into the CAREER solicitation
✔️ Guidance on crafting a competitive proposal
✔️ Clarification on requirements and expectations
✔️ Live Q&A with NSF program directors

The NSF CAREER Program is NSF’s premier award for early-career faculty, supporting those who integrate research and education while building long-term leadership in their field.

                                     Sponsored by NSF and promoted by  UMBC CNMS & COEIT

🚨 Now Recruiting:

Grant Writing Coaching for NIH Applicants!

The Leadership Alliance is now accepting applications for its Grant Writing Coaching Group (GWCG)—a powerful program designed to support postdocs and early-career faculty preparing NIH proposals.

🗓 Program runs: June 2026 – January 2027
⏰ Application deadline: May 15, 2026
📄 See attached flyer and details for application requirements

Interested? Reach out directly to Dr. Jane Indorf (jane_indorf@brown.edu), Assistant Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs, to learn more before applying.

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your grant writing and boost your NIH funding success!

Thank you,

UMBC and Brown University

Keith M. Harmon
Director
Meyerhoff Scholars Program
UMBC
410-455-3139 phone
meyerhoff.umbc.edu

Jane L. Indorf, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Undergraduate & Graduate Programs

The Leadership Alliance

Brown University

www.theleadershipalliance.org

                                      OSP Coffee Chat:                                

                     PIE Forms and Required PI Trainings 

When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22, 2026 · 11:30 AM - 12 PM 

Virtual:  Sign Up

The Office of Sponsored Programs Training Team would like to invite you to join us for a casual yet informative, virtual coffee chat. Bring your coffee and your questions to join us in this short information session. This invitation is for you if you are a faculty, staff, or otherwise active participant in sponsored research at UMBC and would like to learn more from your OSP Team on various topics including: Subawards, Modular vs detailed budgets, and more!

In an effort to create an even more open path to communication and education, and real-time answers, OSP’s virtual coffee chat series will continue Wednesday, April 22nd, 11:30 am -12:00 pm.

Present Topic: PIE Forms and Required PI Trainings

Presenters: Michael Walsh, Cameron McAdams, and Julia Kuhlman

Description: The present topic will go over the required forms and training needed to become PI eligible here at UMBC.

At the end of this session there will be time for some Q&A. Please feel free to comment with questions ahead of time to be answered during the current or future sessions. If you have questions that pertain to a specific grant, please reach out to your Grants Manager individually.

Joing the Webex Meeting Here: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m8eca6a4efd5b8bdf6a46ee12444696a6 

Join OSP Group to receive up to date grant information and sponsor & UMBC policies.

Thank you!

OSP training Team

Date: Monday, April 27, 2026 · 12 - 1 PM
Location: Hybrid · Fine Arts : 459

Come find out about financially attractive opportunities to pursue advanced degrees (MA/MS/PhD) in Germany 
Programs with English as Language of Instruction available in many fields/at many institutions

 
Particularly applicable to STEM fields, but open to all majors

• Amelia Wallace: Information Officer, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Danielle Bolden, J.D.: UMBC Center for Global Engagement; Fulbright Fellow, Germany 2010
• S. Maila Raphael, DAAD RISE Intern '22; UMBC '21 B.S. Chem. Eng., B.A. German
• Q&A Session

Register here: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mlli/events/152467

Effective immediately, travelers seeking an exceptions due to a religious, medical, or other accommodation must submit documentation to the designated office PRIOR to travel. 

Religious accommodation documentation must be sent to the Office of Equity and Civil Rights. Begin the online accommodation request here.

Medical or other accommodation must be submitted to the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services (OADS)  here.  No confidental information is included on the documentation included in Concur.

Where to include in Concur? Copy of approved accommodation must be included with travel request and the expense report as support documentation.  No confidental information is included on the documentation included in Concur.

When to get approval? All accommodations must be approved in writing by the relevant office prior to booking travel, to be considered during the travel approval process.

For questions concerning the accommodation process please contact:

Office of Accessibility and Disability Services: adasupport@umbc.edu

Effective immediately,  UMBC Accounts Payable is implementing the IRS accountable plan for employee reimbursements to ensure compliance with federal tax regulations.  

NON-TAXABLE:    Employee reimbursements that are business related and submitted for reimbursement within the "60-day IRS Safe Harbor" will be treated as non-taxable to the employee.  Travel related reimbursement should be submitted through Concur, while non-travel reimbursements should be submitted through PAW on a payment request.

POTENTIALLY TAXABLE:     Employee reimbursements that are business related and submitted for reimbursement more than 60 days after the date incurred, Accounts Payable (AP) will contact the requester to determine whether there are extenuating circumstances for the delay. 

If no extenuating circumstances apply, the AP professional will guide the requester on the process for submitting the reimbursement through payroll -- Payroll taxes will apply.

Are you an early career biomedical researcher or investigator interested in learning how to write a more persuasive grant to receive federal funding?

Join a free 6-week online course starting on Monday, March 30, 2026.  Sara Dobson, a grant writing expertise who has helped PI's receive more than $75M. She personally will be instructing the event sponsored by Edge for Scholars.

Space is limited.  Register directly at one of these links below. 

Sarah Dobson & Co

Grant Writing 101 – Edge for Scholars at Vanderbilt

OSP Coffee Chat Series: 2026 Season Starts Soon!

Topic: What is the UMBC Standard Proposal Information Page?  

The University System of Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore are pleased to co-host a symposium entitled:  Science at the Crossroads: Fostering Trust in Research, organized by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development. 

Event Details:

Please visit The Science at the Crossroads Website for the full agenda and to register.

Click here to RSVP:  

Science at the Crossroads: Fostering Trust in Responsible Conduct of Research