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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Dear Colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">I am writing to bring to your attention and exciting funding opportunity from the Simons Foundation that could be relevant to several folks in our college.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">The Simons Foundation’s collaborative funding model brings together interdisciplinary teams to tackle fundamental scientific questions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Its Life Sciences division is now soliciting
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F4761">vision statements</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761"> for new
<a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-collaborations-in-ecology-and-evolution/?utm_source=Simons+Foundation&utm_campaign=be283a8b1a-2026_LS_COLLABS_IN_ECO_%26_EVO&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-dea4c45f3e-746269491">
Ecology & Evolution Collaborations</a> focused on basic ecological and evolutionary dynamics—especially bold, cross-scale projects that other funders may deem too risky.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Funded projects are interdisciplinary and multi-institutional. Letters of Interest will be reviewed, provided feedback, and a subset will be invited for full proposals.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Each selected team will receive five years of support (with one renewal possible) at $1–4 million USD per year (up to $8 million total annually across 1–3 awards, including 20%
indirect costs). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Key dates:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Letter of Interest (LOI) available August 4, 2025;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• LOI deadline October 16;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Full-proposal invitation March 2, 2026;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Full-proposal deadline April 30;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Finalist presentations the week of December 7;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Award notifications February 1, 2027;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Funding begins April 1, 2027.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Eligible PIs hold a Ph.D., faculty appointment, and institutional research space;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">• Submit LOIs via the Simons Award Manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Please feel free to reach out to me if I can provide any assistance with questions/ideas/concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#0F4761">Jon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Jon Chorover<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Interim Associate Vice President/Associate Dean for Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Professor, Department of Environmental Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Division of Agriculture, Life & Veterinary Sciences, & Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences (CALES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Phone: (520) 626-5635<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Email: <a href="mailto:chorover@arizona.edu"><span style="color:#0F4761">chorover@arizona.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">I am on ancestral lands of the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#0F4761">Tohono O'odham and
<span style="background:white">Pascua Yaqui</span>.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0F4761"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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