Upcoming Events

Exciting events are in the works! The NSF-EPIIC-CAFE will soon host a series of expert-led training sessions, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities designed to support research collaboration and professional growth. Please check back soon for event details, dates, and registration information.

Upcoming NSF EPIIC CAFE Events

  • 3/9 – Journal Club

Journal Club: Back in Session! Join us for an Interdisciplinary Journal Club Discussion (sponsored by NSF EPIIC, NSF Award #2433183) featuring the peer-reviewed article by Chen et al. (2025) on “Transforming Healthcare: Intelligent Wearable Sensors Empowered by Smart Materials and Artificial Intelligence.”

Registration – https://fdu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tIUojNSNT7qlH-k2_IkL7Q

  • 2/24 – Interdisciplinary Collaborative Grant Writing Initiative Round 2

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Grant Writing Initiative Round 2 launches the next NSF EPIIC-sponsored cycle, building on the last round’s success. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration among FDU faculty members to develop competitive proposals in priority areas and pursue targeted external funding. Selected participants receive a $500 professional development award.

Registration – https://forms.office.com/r/WcGCgSBYDX?origin=lprLink

  • 2/18 – EPIIC Seed Grant Funding Opportunity Round 2

Fairleigh Dickinson University’s NSF-EPIIC-CAFE SEED Grant provides up to $5,000 for one year to help full-time FDU faculty members build externally partnered initiatives that broaden participation in regional innovation and research ecosystems and support competitive external funding, scalable programming, and adoption-ready results.

Application Link – https://fdu.jotform.com/260434237353958

  • 10/13 2 PM Applied AI for Academic Impact: Teach, Research, and Streamline Operations

This workshop demonstrates practical, responsible uses of AI across three core dimensions of academic work. Teaching: enrich course design, formative assessment, and feedback. Research: scope studies, explore literature, organize data, and structure competitive proposals. Operations: streamline communication, documentation, and scheduling. Emphasis is on responsible use, clear guardrails, and equity-minded practices. Participants will leave with tools and tips that they can use immediately.

PresentersNick Stelzner (University of Washington) and Dr. Christopher Stubbs (Gregory H. Olsen College of Engineering and Science).

Registration – https://fdu.zoom.us/meeting/register/vtAXho2PR5-Eqs52zV2TBw

  • 9/15 2 PM – Journal Club 2.0: “Mind Meets Machine”

The Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects at Fairleigh Dickinson University invites you to the next session of Journal Club 2.0 Presents: Mind Meets Machine: Ethical Frontiers & Educational Futures in the Age of AI, an interdisciplinary conversation on AI’s evolving role in higher education, its ethical, social, and instructional impacts, and discuss real-world applications across disciplines, grounded in current research on AI adoption. This second Journal Club, sponsored by NSF EPIIC and led by Dr. Hong Zhao of the Gregory H. Olsen College of Engineering and Science, is designed to strengthen networking across campuses, with participating faculty eligible for a $250 professional development award.

Registration – https://fdu.zoom.us/meeting/register/btyzSM43Rb6KJigEzFgt2A

  • 9/15 Grant Writing Assistance

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPIIC, we are pleased to provide professional grant writing and editing assistance to faculty preparing research proposals to improve proposal competitiveness. Services include editing and proposal development. 

Registrationhttps://forms.office.com/r/r93GXRTAC5

  • 9/10 Interdisciplinary Collaborative Grant Proposal Initiative 

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPIIC, this kickoff launches our interdisciplinary collaborative grant proposal initiative to develop interdisciplinary grant proposals in priority areas and pursue targeted external funding opportunitiesFDU faculty members who are selected will receive $500 professional development award for their participation. 

Registrationhttps://forms.office.com/r/v57vPaZV0d