Current Funding Opportunities

The programs below are listed by college, but we encourage you to browse the entire list as some may be applicable to other colleges as well.

College of Health Professions

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 5/2025 through 2026
    Description: Seeks proposals to support the development and implementation of research education programs in the field of aging for undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 6/5, 10/5, and 2/5 annually until 2027
                                                                  LOI: 30 days prior to application due date
    Description: Invites robust collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of disasters on healthcare systems and care delivery that serve populations that experience health disparities, including the influence of risk factors or vulnerablities of both the systems and the communities preceding the event(s). 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Due Date: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
    Description: Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. We are concerned both with the direct impacts of structural racism on the health and well-being of people and communities of color (e.g., Black, Latina/o/x, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander people, and other races and ethnicities)鈥攁s well as the ways in which racism intersects with other forms of marginalization, such as having low income, being an immigrant, having a disability, or identifying as LGBTQ+ or a gender minority.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Borealis Philanthropy
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The FTG is committed to providing rapid-response funding to trans-led organizations responding to emerging needs in their communities.FTG's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund supports mutual aid and care support networks; healing and virtual wellness spaces; online/virtual programming needs; living stipends for members and/or staff; survival needs (i.e. food, rent support, shelter, utilities); and organizing and advocacy. FTG also offers general rapid support funding to organizations and communities in need of additional resources to respond quickly to organized opposition and unanticipated events.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: Deadlines depend upon program, but applications are accepted anytime when no relevant RFAs or Pas exist
    Description: Supports a broad spectrum of obesity-related research, including research toward preventing & treating obesity through lifestyle modification & through pharmacologic, surgical, or other medical approaches; & research toward breaking the link between obesity & associated health conditions; & cross-cutting research topics, including health disparities, technology, fostering of interdisciplinary research teams, investigator training, & translational research.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Anthem Foundation
    Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime
    Description: Funds specific public health-related initiatives that address disparities and social determinants that can positively affect conditions identified through our signature Healthy Generations program.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Social Security Administration
    Due Date: Deadlines vary based on program
    Description: SSA offers fellowship and small grant opportunities for junior faculty researchers interested in and/or disability policy issues.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: Annual Proposals Accepted Anytime, call to determine interest
    Description: Supports applications on development, growth, and maintenance of skeletal muscle tissue; basic biology of satellite cells and muscle stem cells; excitation-contraction coupling; skeletal muscle fitness and adaptation to exercise; muscle metabolism; & muscle imaging.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Small grants support initiatives and activities in Maryland that are consistent with and will have an impact that lasts beyond the time during which the grant is funded. The grants provide funding for a range of projects, from awareness campaigns and activities and needs assessments to training and workshops.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs accepted anytime, full proposal upon invitation
    Description:
    • Board Grants: 1-3 years in duration; selected three times each year at our board meetings.
    • President鈥檚 Grants: 1 year or less in duration, no more than $35,000; can be given at any time, evaluated and awarded by the foundation president.
    • Priorities:
      • Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
      • Increasing Collaboration Among Future Health Professionals
      • Preparing Future Health Professionals to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Seeks proposals that are primed to influence health equity in the future. RWJF is interested in ideas that address any of these four areas of focus: Future of Evidence; Future of Social Interaction; Future of Food; Future of Work. Additionally, the foundation welcome ideas that might fall outside of these four focus areas, but which offer unique approaches to advancing health equity and progress toward a Culture of Health. RWJF wants to hear from scientists, anthropologists, artists, urban planners, community leaders鈥攁nyone, anywhere who has a new or unconventional idea that could alter the trajectory of health, and improve health equity and well-being for generations to come. The changes sought require diverse perspectives and cannot be accomplished by any one person, organization or sector. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund
    Due Date: LOI: Accepted on a Rolling Basis, Proposals Due Upon Invitation
    Description: Supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy through four programs: delivery system innovation and improvement; health policy reform; health system performance assessment and tracking; and international program.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Partnerships for Clean Competition
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The Micro-Grant Program was developed by the PCC to quickly fund quality research projects which fill immediate gaps in anti-doping knowledge and/or gather preliminary data to strengthen a regular cycle PCC Grant application or re-submission.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through February 2025
    Description: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood.  These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 11/03/2025
    Description: Through this award, investigators will endeavor to develop a mature and sustainable research infrastructure to support projects that address key interdisciplinary aging research questions.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
    Due Date: 11/03/2025
    Description: Develops novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
    Due Date: 2/28, 10/28 through October 2025
    Description: Encourages R21 applications that propose to conduct secondary analyses using existing human datasets in areas relevant to the National Heart, Lung, Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders Institute (NHLBI) scientific mission. The FOA aims to stimulate the use of existing human datasets to investigate novel scientific ideas, and/or generate new models, systems, tools, or technologies that have the potential for significant impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research. Generation of new primary data is not allowed.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through October 2025
    Description: Seeks proposals for small research projects focused on analyses of childhood cancer and/or structural birth defects genomic datasets generated by the Kids First program and/or associated phenotypic datasets.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
    Due Date: 02/16, 06/16, 10/16 through 2025
    Description: Supports the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive original data collected with NICHD funding.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
    Due Date: 01/09/2026
    Description: Solicits innovative research to optimize HIV prevention and care which is aligned with NIMH Division of AIDS Research (DAR) priorities. Applications may include formative basic behavioral and social science to better understand a step or steps in the HIV prevention or care continuum, and/or the initial development and pilot testing of innovative intervention approaches.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Due Date: 1/25, 5/25, 9/25, annually
    Description: Supports a discrete, specified health services research project. The project will be performed by the named investigator and study team. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and priority research interests of AHRQ.  
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Due Date: 1/25, 5/25, 9/25, annually
    Description: Funds large research demonstration and implementation projects that pertain to ambulatory care settings and long-term care facilities with a focus on implementing evidence-based processes to improve patient safety, especially those involving transitions in care. AHRQ is interested in studies in these two settings that develop, utilize, and evaluate strategies to implement existing measures, metrics, tools or practices that have already been validated and have been shown to be efficacious in improving patient safety sites.  
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    Due Date: LOI due 30 days prior to deadline; Application due 5/25 through 2025

    Description: Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation鈥檚 biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through 2026

    Description: Supports translational and clinical research to (1) advance precision medicine in pregnant persons, lactating persons, and children through the development of novel tools, models, and other technologies that could have a direct clinical or health impact; (2) enhance the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of drug action, including the role of pediatric ontogeny and the dynamic physiological changes that occur during pregnancy and lactation; and (3) discover and develop novel therapeutics or enhance the usage of existing drugs or drug repurposing for safer and more effective medications in pregnant and lactating persons, neonates, and children.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 06/16, 10/16, 02/16 through February 2026
    Description: Supports innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum, from cancer etiology and cancer risks through survivorship, and ways to prevent or mitigate negative health effects. This includes, but is not limited to, studies to improve knowledge of the impact of climate change related environmental effects on cancer risks, control and behaviors.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Commonwealth Fund
    Due Date: LOIs accepted on a rolling basis
    Description: Supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: LOI: 30 days prior to application due date; Application: 10/16, 2/16, 6/16 through June 2026
    Description: Seeks to solicit applications for research projects that address the link between social disconnection including both objective social isolation as well as perceived social isolation (otherwise known as loneliness) and suicide in late life. Emphasis is placed on research that identifies neurobiological and environmental mechanisms associated with social isolation and loneliness that increase risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior in late-life, that uses an experimental therapeutics approach to identify targets and develop and test interventions to prevent late-life suicide, and that develops new and modifies existing service delivery models to enhance social connection in late-life to prevent suicide.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Social Security Administration
    Due Date: Various application periods between October and February, annually
    Description: SSA offers fellowship opportunities for researchers interested in retirement and/or disability policy issues. Two are highlighted below.
    • $45,000 grant (up to 3) to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement or disability issues. Due October-January.
    • Up to $45,000 grants to support poverty research related to retirement and disability policies and programs. Due December-February.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: LOI: 30 days prior to the application due date; Application: Deadline every other month from August 2023 through December 2025
    Description: Intended to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the NOFO is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Full proposal accepted anytime
    Description: Supports fundamental engineering research that will improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the development of new theories, methodologies, technologies, or devices. Disabilities could be developmental, cognitive, hearing, mobility, visual, self care, independent living, or other. Proposed projects must advance knowledge regarding a specific human disability or pathological motion or understanding of injury mechanisms.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Due Date: 02/12, 06/12, and 10/12 until 03/13/2025
    Description: The primary purpose of the AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01) program is to provide support for qualified individuals for an intensive, mentored research career development experience in comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods as applied to patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Due Date: 02/12, 06/12, and 10/12 until 03/13/2025
    Description: Invites applications for Mentored Career Enhancement grant awards (K18) in Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR). The program targets established mid-career and senior investigators who are interested in developing new skills in comparative effectiveness research methodology and applying these methods to patient-centered outcome research (PCOR).

College of Education

  • Title:
    Sponsor: Brady Education Foundation
    Due Date: 4/1, 8/1, 12/1 through 2025
    Description: Seeks proposals that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Second Wednesday in October, annually
    Description: Supports summer research experiences for K-14 educators that foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts and industry partners.

College of Business & Economics

  • Title:
    Sponsor: IBM Center of the Business of Government 
    Due Date: 10/1/2024
    Description: The aim of the IBM Center for The Business of Government is to tap into the best minds in academe and the nonprofit sector who can use rigorous public management research and analytic techniques to help public sector executives and managers improve the effectiveness of government.  We are looking for very practical findings and actionable recommendations - not just theory or concepts - in order to assist executives and managers to more effectively respond to mission and management challenges.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 and 8/15 annually 
    Description: Supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to global and national security. Research proposals are evaluated on the criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts; the proposed projects are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) international relations, global and national security, human security, political violence, state stability, conflict processes, regime transition, international and comparative political economy, and peace science. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 8/19/2024; 1/18 and 8/18, annually thereafter 
    Description: Supports research projects, dissertation research, workshops, and small grants for time-sensitive and high-risk projects to increase understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Topics of interest include judgment and decision making, decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design.  
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 8/19/2024; 1/18 and 8/18, annually thereafter
    Description: Supports research designed to improve understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. Supports research in almost every area of economics, including econometrics, economic history, environmental economics, finance, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics, and public finance. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 8/29/2024; Last Thursday in January and August, annually thereafter
    Description: Supports the development of analytical and statistical methods and models with potential utility in multiple fields of the social, behavioral and economic sciences. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: FINRA Investor Education Foundation
    Due Date: Project Concept Forms are accepted any time; full proposals will be due at any time during the year
    Description: FINRA supports innovative research and educational projects that give investors tools and information needed to better understand markets and the basic principles of saving and investing. Projects are encouraged in: using behavioral finance to improve saving and investing; meeting financial and investor education needs of underserved audiences; creating new marketing and distribution channels for financial and investor education; and helping retirees manage finances.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries
    Due Date: LOIs accepted anytime for quarterly review
    Description: Pursues a research agenda that aims to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in Low-Income Countries (LICs). PEDL will support approaches that promise to produce credible research results that will be useful for policy-making. It will promote research related to private enterprises of all sizes and will initially focus on four research themes: 
    • Market frictions, management and organizations
    • Trade and macro models - agglomeration and spatial location of firms
    • High growth entrepreneurship
    • Social compliance and the environment
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Institute of Management Accounts
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime 
    Description: The Research Grant Program awards grants for innovative research proposals relating to primary management accounting activities such as decision support, planning, and control.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation, Inc.
    Due Date: LOI accepted anytime, recommended deadlines are 3/10 and 9/10, annually
    Description: Supports a wide range of projects aimed at increasing economic literacy, especially the best way to teach the subject (research, curriculum development); the impact of economic education (policy studies, measurement of economic understanding); and encouragement of youth/young adults to participate in the economic system after finishing school (research, conferences, outreach programs).
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce
    Due Date: Concept proposals accepted on an ongoing basis until the termination of this NOFO or publication of a superseding RNTA NOFO

    Description: Supports efforts to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities. Funds support two project types: Research and Evaluation, for the development of tools, recommendations, and resources that shape federal economic development policies and decision-making; and National Technical Assistance program that supports best practices among communities trying to solve problems related to economic development goals.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Social Security Administration
    Due Date: Various application periods between October and February, annually
    Description: SSA offers fellowship opportunities for researchers interested in retirement and/or disability policy issues. Two are highlighted below.
    • $45,000 grant (up to 3) to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement or disability issues. Due October-January.
    • Up to $45,000 grants to support poverty research related to retirement and disability policies and programs. Due December-February.

Fisher College of Science & Mathematics

  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
    Due Date: 8/19/2024; 1/18 and 8/18, annually thereafter
    Description: Supports research projects, dissertation research, workshops, and small grants for time-sensitive and high-risk projects to increase understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, and organizations, and society. Topics of interest include judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Department of Defense (DoD)/Office of Naval Research (ONR)/Army Research Office (ARO)/Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR
    Due Date: 9/6/2024

    Description: DoD's MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program was initiated over 35 years ago and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies.

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Preliminary Proposal: 4/23/2024

    Full Proposal: 08/30/2024

    Description: Seeks proposals accelerate the translation of novel approaches to protein design and enable new applications of importance to the U.S. bioeconomy.

  • Title
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 10/21/2024

    Description: Supports the development and validation of novel, complex, and pathophysiologically relevant human cellular models of Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD). The cellular model system needs to reflect multiple aspects of the human condition as much as possible, such as capturing the multiple pathologies and brain cell types observed in ADRD.

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 8/19/2024; 1/18 and 8/18, annually thereafter
    Description: Supports research projects, dissertation research, workshops, and small grants for time-sensitive and high-risk projects to increase understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, and organizations, and society. Topics of interest include judgment and decision making; decision analysis and decision aids; risk analysis, perception, and communication; societal and public policy decision making; management science and organizational design. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Fourth Thursday in January, annually
    Description: Aims to support fundamental research about what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR). The ER2 program seeks to encourage science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) researchers, practitioners and educators at all career stages to conduct research with integrity and to educate other about RECR. Research questions of interest to the program could address ethical issues involving diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, bias, culture, transparency and mentoring or other interpersonal behaviors in research environments.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Fourth Thursday in January, annually
    Description: Aims to support fundamental research about what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR). The ER2 program seeks to encourage science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) researchers, practitioners and educators at all career stages to conduct research with integrity and to educate other about RECR. Research questions of interest to the program could address ethical issues involving diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, bias, culture, transparency and mentoring or other interpersonal behaviors in research environments.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Fourth Tuesday in January, annually
    Description: The goal of the RCN-UBE program is to link biological research discoveries with innovations in biology education to improve the learning environment in undergraduate biology classrooms. The program seeks to improve undergraduate education by leveraging the power of a collaborative network recognizing that new education materials and pedagogies can simultaneously teach biological concepts while creating a supportive and engaging learning environment for all. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Third Thursday in January, annually
    Description: BPC aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post-secondary degrees in the computing disciplines, and to encourage participation of other underrepresented groups in the discipline. All BPC projects must have the potential for widespread, national impact. The BPC program will support three categories of awards: Alliances, Demonstration Projects, and Supplements. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Third Thursday in January, annually
    Description: Seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering (S&E) research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Second Wednesday in January, annually
    Description: This program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning (ISL) experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Third Tuesday in January, annually
    Description: Supports analytic and methodologial research and engages in the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES invites proposals for individual of multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, workshops, experimental research, survey research and data collection and dissemination projects. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 and 8/15, annually
    Description: Supports basic scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of issues broadly related to global and national security. Research proposals are evaluated on the criteria of intellectual merit and broader impacts; the proposed projects are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include (but are not limited to) international relations, global and national security, human security, political violence, state stability, conflict processes, regime transition, international and comparative political economy, and peace science. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: First Tuesday in May, first Tuesday in September, and first Tuesday in January, annually 
    Description: Offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit. Funds support two tracks: the Technology Translation track and the Research Partnerships (PFI-RP). 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy
    Due Date: Application reviews and grant awards will be performed on a first-received, first-qualified basis.
    Description: Awards grants of used energy-related laboratory equipment for use in energy-oriented educational programs in the life, physical, and environmental sciences, technology, and engineering. Applicant institution not required to have a currently funded project with DOE to participate.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports efforts to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. Research areas must fall within the scope of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. Track 1 reengages investigators in a competitive funding opportunity with accommodations for gap in record that are a result of the research hiatus. Track 2 retrains investigators for whom the research hiatus has led to the need for new or updated techniques, such that retraining is required to return the investigator to competitive research activity.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
    Due Date: Applications are accepted and processed on an on-going basis
    Description: Sponsors program at Naval R&D centers & labs to increase the involvement of creative & highly trained scientists & engineers from academia & industry to scientific & technical areas of interest & relevance to the Navy. Supports about 40 new postdoc appointments/year. Current interests include: computer science, artificial intelligence, plasma physics, acoustics, chemistry, materials science, optical sciences, condensed matter & radiation sciences, electronics science, environmental sciences, marine geosciences, remote sensing, oceanography, and marine meteorology.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime; Investigators are advised that the dates from April 15th to June 15th should, optimally, be avoided for submissions.
    Description: Research supported by the Division of Materials Research (DMR) focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of materials, materials discovery, design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and materials-related phenomena. DMR awards enable understanding of the electronic, atomic, and molecular structures, mechanisms, and processes that govern nanoscale to macroscale morphology and properties; manipulation and control of these properties; discovery of emerging phenomena of matter and materials; and creation of novel design, synthesis, and processing strategies that lead to new materials with unique characteristics. These discoveries and advancements transcend traditional scientific and engineering disciplines. DMR supports research and education activities in the United States through funding of individual investigators, teams, centers, facilities, and instrumentation. Projects supported by DMR are not only essential for the development of future technologies and industries that address societal needs, but also for the preparation of the next generation of materials researchers.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Supplement proposals accepted any time
    Description: Provides supplements to allow faculty & students receiving NSF support to participate in research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology laboratories (the Chemical Science & Technology Laboratory & the Materials Science & Engineering Laboratory & Physical Measurement Laboratory & User Facilities are the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology & the Center for Neutron Research). Chemistry, materials research, molecular biology, bioengineering, & chemical engineering are centralized at these NIST laboratories.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports fundamental research on hard and soft materials, and materials-related phenomena; the development of associated analytical, computational, and data-centric techniques; as well as predictive materials-specific theory, simulation, and modeling for materials research. Focus areas include: advancing the understanding of emergent properties and phenomena of materials and condensed matter systems; developing materials-specific prediction and advancing understanding of properties, phenomena, and emergent states of matter associated with hard or soft materials; developing and exploring new paradigms to advance fundamental understanding of materials and materials related phenomena, or; fostering research at interfaces among relevant sub disciplines.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime; Approved PIs have up to 1 year from RARE approval to submit their Track 1 or Track 2 proposal
    Description: Supports efforts to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. Research areas must fall within the scope of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. Track 1 reengages investigators in a competitive funding opportunity with accommodations for gap in record that are a result of the research hiatus. Track 2 retrains investigators for whom the research hiatus has led to the need for new or updated techniques, such that retraining is required to return the investigator to competitive research activity.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Deadline depends on the program to which the proposal is submitted
    Description: Promotes university-industry partnerships through project funds, fellowships, and traineeships to support an eclectic mix of linkages. This is not a separate program, but rather a designation that can be added to any standing NSF opportunity. Special interest is focused on opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting, and to bring industry perspectives and interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports the development of tools, approaches and infrastructure necessary for direct tests of cause and effect hypotheses between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses and fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports quantitative, mechanistic, predictive, and theory-driven fundamental research designed to promote understanding of complex living systems at the molecular, subcellular, and cellular levels. While recognizing the need for thorough and accurate descriptions of biological complexes and pathways, the priority of the Division is to support work that advances the field by capturing the predictive power of mechanistic, quantitative, and evolutionary approaches. Proposals are solicited to support research relevant to the four MCB core clusters:
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports research to understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. The activities within this program combine observations, theory, and modeling.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: The Simon鈥檚 Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Bio-Techne
    Due Date: Awardees are selected monthly, submit anytime
    Description: Offers travel funding to attend scientific meetings and conferences. COVID-19 Note: No travel grants will be paid until travel and events are back to regular schedules. We will continue to select monthly recipients, but the checks will be postponed.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports meritorious requests for infrastructure that promote research and education in areas supported by the Division. 
    • Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field investigations and student research training opportunities in the Earth sciences.  The maximum request is $500,000. The maximum request for upgrade of research group computing facilities remains $75,000.
    • Development of New Instrumentation, Techniques or Software that will extend current research and research training capabilities in the Earth sciences.  The maximum request is $500,000.
    • Community Facility Support to make complex and expensive instruments, systems of instruments or services broadly available to the Earth science research and student communities. There are no maximum request limitations but potential proposers of new Community Facilities must contact cognizant Program Officers before submission.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports research involving studies of cloud physics; atmospheric electricity; radiation; boundary layer & turbulence; the initiation, growth, & propagation of gravity waves; all aspects of mesoscale meteorological phenomena, including their morphological, thermodynamic, & kinematic structure; development of mesoscale systems & precipitation processes; & transfer of energy between scales.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports research on the fluxes of water in the environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy transport function of the water cycle, from rainfall to runoff to infiltration and streamflow; evaporation and transpiration; the flow of water in soils and aquifers; and the transport of suspended, dissolved, and colloidal components. Studies may address physical, chemical, and biological processes that are coupled directly to water transport.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports basic laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational research in the physics of solid earth to explore its composition, structure, and processes. Topics include seismicity, seismic wave propagation and nature and occurrence of geophysical hazards; Earth's magnetic, gravity, and electrical fields; Earth's thermal structure; geodynamics; geophysical studies of active deformation, including geodesy, and theoretical and experimental studies of Earth materials.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify landscapes over a variety of length and time scales. Encourages research that investigates quantitatively the coupling and feedback among such processes, their rates, and their relative roles, especially in the contexts of variation in climatic and tectonic influences and in light of changes due to human impact.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Program has two goals: to advance knowledge about the processes that force and regulate atmosphere鈥檚 synoptic and planetary circulation, weather, and climate; and to sustain the pool of human resources required for excellence in synoptic and global atmospheric dynamics and climate research. Research topics include theoretical, observational, and modeling studies of the general circulation of the stratosphere and troposphere; and synoptic scale weather phenomena.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports research from the mesosphere to the outer reaches of the thermosphere and all regions of the Earth鈥檚 ionosphere. The Aeronomy Program seeks to understand phenomena of ionization, recombination, chemical reaction, photo emission, and the transport of energy, and momentum within and between these regions. The program also supports research into the coupling of this global system to the stratosphere below and magnetosphere above and the plasma physics of phenomena manifested in the coupled ionosphere-magnetosphere system, including the effects of high-power radio wave modification.
  • Title:  
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports fundamental research in mechanics as related to the behavior of deformable solid materials and respective structures under internal and external actions. Areas of emphasis include advances in theory, experimental and computational methods in mechanics, and the use of contemporary mechanics methods to address modern challenges in materials and structures.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Comcast Cable
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description:
    • Open Source Development Grants: Funds new or continued development of open source software in areas of interest to Comcast or of benefit to the Internet and broadband industries.
    • General Research Grant: Provides an unrestricted award of funds to support researchers, usually at colleges and universities. These grants are focused on supporting excellent technical research in a wide variety of fields that are relevant to the broadband industry and/or to Comcast specifically.
    • Target Research Grants: More narrowly tailored and typically study more specific issues than general research grants.
    • Useful & Interesting Things Grants: Funds work that contributes to the Internet novel and useful ways.   Applicants can be individuals who are working on ideas, or technologies, or approaches that are useful and valuable to the Internet. Sometimes it鈥檚 a conference that鈥檚 being organized, or a new piece of hardware that鈥檚 being invented.   Either way, it helps advance the growth of the Internet and the Internet Community.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Monarch Butterfly Fund
    Due Date: Applications Accepted Anytime
    Description: Welcomes proposals from organizations or individuals for activities that support conservation of monarch butterflies or their habitat.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports hypothesis-driven research that increases our understanding of surface Earth processes and environmental change. The program supports all aspects of the study of life based on the geologic record of fossil organisms, modern sedimentary processes (including organic and inorganic processes) and deep-time records of these processes, and the science of dating and measuring events and processes of the geologic past.
  • Title:  
    Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports activities that develop, expand, strengthen, or sustain NIST partnership programs within the ADIIS Directorate through measurements, standards, data, industry and technology studies, and technology research and development (R&D). Specifically, the ADIIS Grant Program seeks to support technology innovation and service to American industry in the following fields: bioscience, chemistry, dimensional metrology, electronics, engineering, infrastructure, information technology, manufacturing, manufacturing metrology, materials science and engineering, nanotechnology, neutron research, optics, and physics.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
    Due Date: Accepted on a Rolling Basis and Reviewed Quarterly
    Description: Supports the Corporation鈥檚 strategic business goals, primarily in the focus areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and military and veteran causes.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere (i.e. above the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary). The Program focuses on deformation processes and their tectonic drivers that operate at any depth within the continental lithosphere, on time-scales of decades/centuries (e.g. active tectonics) and longer, and at micro- to plate boundary/orogenic belt length-scales.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Fellowships are awarded to highly qualified early career investigators to carry out an independent research program. The research plan of each Fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of AGS disciplines. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years with Fellowships that can be taken to the institution of their choice. The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with experience in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions and help establish them in leadership positions within the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences community.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports scientific research in Antarctica. Program goals include: expand fundamental knowledge of the Antarctic region; improve understanding of interactions between the Antarctic region and global earth systems; and utilize the unique characteristics of the Antarctic continent as an observing platform.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports basic research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation, and subsequent petrologic and geochemical modification via igneous and metamorphic processes. Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports innovative research in circuit and system hardware and signal processing techniques. CCSS also supports system and network architectures for communications and sensing to enable the next-generation cyber-physical systems (CPS) that leverage computation, communication, and sensing integrated with physical domains.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports research about the Arctic, including field and modeling studies, data analysis, and synthesis about the arctic region. Goal is to gain better understanding of the Arctic's physical, biological, geological, chemical, social, and cultural processes, and the interactions of ocean, land, atmosphere, biological, and human systems in the Arctic. Funding tracks include: Arctic Natural Sciences; Arctic Social Sciences; Arctic System Science; and Arctic Observing Network.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: This funding mechanism is designed to facilitate and promote a PI's ability to effective adopt empowering technologies that might not be readily accessible in the PI's current research environment or collaboration network. Transformative research likely spans disciplines and minimizing the practical barriers to doing so will strengthen research programs poised to make significant contributions. The award is intended to allow mid-career or later-stage researchers (Associate or Full Professor, or equivalent) to expand or make a transition in their research programs via a sabbatical leave or similar mechanism of professional development and then develop that research program in their own lab.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The goal of the Nanoscale Interactions program is to support research to advance fundamental and quantitative understanding of the interactions of nanomaterials and nanosystems with biological and environmental media. Materials of interest include one- to three-dimensional nanostructures, heterogeneous nano-bio hybrid assemblies, dendritic and micelle structures, quantum dots, and other nanoparticles. Collaborative and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Notice seeking proposals 鈥媐or research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and pests. This program supports projects focused on current and emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant plants.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Notice seeking proposals to support the development, expansion, or improvement of infrastructure that will enable fundamental research within the biological sciences. Infrastructure supported under this solicitation may include cyberinfrastructure, instrumentation, biological collections, living stocks, field stations, marine labs, or other resources that are shared and openly accessible.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Program aims to catalyze new science and engineering discovery pathways through early-stage collaborative activities between disciplinary scientists and engineers as well as developers/implementers of innovative cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities, services, and approaches.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports genome-scale research that addresses challenging questions of biological, societal and economic importance. PGRP encourages the development of innovative tools, technologies and resources that empower a broad plant research community to answer scientific questions on a genome-wide scale. Emphasis is placed on the scale and depth of the question being addressed and the creativity of the approach.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Program focuses on geochemical processes in terrestrial Earth鈥檚 surface environmental systems, as well as the interaction of geochemical and biological processes. The program supports field, laboratory, theoretical, and modeling studies of these processes and related mechanisms at all spatial and temporal scales.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Small, Medium, and EDU Projects: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both encouraged.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Whitehall Foundation
    Due Date:
    LOIs: 1/15, 4/15, 10/1, Application Deadlines: 6/1, 9/1, 2/15. If any of the above dates fall on a holiday or weekend, the next business day will be the deadline.
    Description:
    Supports basic research in vertebrate and invertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology in the U.S.
    • Grants-in-Aid: provide up to $30,000 for one year to researchers at the assistant professor level or senior researchers who have not received significant funding.
    • Research Grants: range from $30,000-$75,000 per year for up to three years to established researchers of any age who have not received significant funding.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 06/27/2025
    Description: Encourages applications that develop creative and innovative short courses to train the next generation of DS researchers in state-of-the-art clinical research skills that will improve the understanding of the co-occurring clinical features in DS and support development of new treatments for health conditions experienced by those with DS.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    Due Date: Various deadlines by program through 8/31/2025
    Description: This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits physical science research to be conducted in a variety of venues, such as aboard the International Space Station (ISS), other space stations, free flyers, suborbital flights, Gateway, lunar surface, or performed as ground-based research (e.g., on Earth-based reduced-gravity platforms, in ground facilities, conducted as computational and theoretical investigations).
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 02/18/2025
    Description: The aim of this solicitation is to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire Earth. The Biology Integration Institutes (BII) program supports collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals accepted at anytime
    Description: Supports strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning. Proposals must meaningfully integrate across both social and technological research dimensions and should include community engagement elements.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 11/12/2024
    Description: Invites applications proposing new tests, animal models, techniques, etc. to advance research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its related dementias (ADRD) that need additional preliminary data with broader dissemination to establish them for more general use in this research field.

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 5/25, 9/25, 1/25 through May 8, 2026
    Description: Seeks applications to develop and/or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral students interested in careers in biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research. Many NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) use this NRSA program exclusively to support intensive, short-term research training experiences for health professional students (medical students, veterinary students, and/or students in other health-professional programs) during the summer.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Accepted anytime
    Description: Supports research to advance fundamental and quantitative understanding of the interactions of nanomaterials and nanosystems with biological and environmental media. Annual deadline: proposals are accepted anytime.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 3/15, annually
    Description: Supports research that incorporates research on social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve balanced participation from the mathematical sciences and from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date:  Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The primary objective of the RARE program is to catalyze the advancement along the academic tenure-track of highly meritorious individuals who are returning from a hiatus from active research. By providing re-entry points to active academic research, the RARE program will reinvest in the nation鈥檚 most highly trained scientists and engineers, while broadening participation and increasing diversity of experience.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense鈥擜ir Force Research Laboratory
    Due Date: White Papers Due: September 30 through 2026
    Description: Solicits proposals for research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of Quantum Information Sciences supporting the implementation and use of Command, Control, Communications, Computers & Intelligence (C4I)-related information and communications technologies and techniques. This effort seeks to advance and assess advanced algorithm designs and technologies harnessing emerging quantum computing techniques, and to investigate entanglement distribution across a heterogeneous quantum network, to support AFRL/RI鈥檚 C4I mission.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime
    Description: Supports innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation, as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and stochastic disturbances.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime
    Description: Supports fundamental research on organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials with an emphasis on synthesis and structure-property relationship studies.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Full proposal accepted anytime
    Description: Supports fundamental engineering research that will improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities through the development of new theories, methodologies, technologies, or devices. Disabilities could be developmental, cognitive, hearing, mobility, visual, self-care, independent living, or other. Proposed projects must advance knowledge regarding a specific human disability or pathological motion or understanding of injury mechanisms.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: LOI: 6/8/2025; Application: 7/8/2025 
    Description: The purpose of this initiative is to support investigator-initiated research in genomics and health equity, with the ultimate goal of developing approaches, generating and disseminating data, and implementing metrics or interventions that will advance the equitable use of genomics to improve health in U.S. populations.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 2/5, 6/5, and 10/5 through 9/8/2025
    Description: Supports collaborations between the life and physical sciences that apply a multidisciplinary bioengineering approach to biomedical problems; and accelerates the adoption of promising tools, methods and techniques for a specific research or clinical problem in basic, translational, or clinical science and practice in physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer sciences and engineering.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Notice seeking applications to coordinate and support crosscutting activities within the Division of Materials Research-- and more broadly across NSF-- with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, international cooperation, and education (including experiential learning at REU/RET Sites). Proposals are welcome that do not fit elsewhere at NSF that are also highly relevant for the materials research and education community.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Network Connectors & Alliances: Fourth Tuesday in October, annually; Conferences: One-year window between 10/31-10/30, annually
    Description: Supports collaborative efforts aimed at enhancing the preparation, increasing the participation, and ensuring the contributions of individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented and underserved in the STEM enterprise: including women; ethnic minorities, and persons from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Small Projects: Proposal Accepted Anytime; Medium Projects & OAC Core Projects: 10/1-10/23, annually
    Description: Supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, as well as advanced cyberinfrastructure, through CISE Core Programs (see the website for a list).
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Second Wednesday in October, annually
    Description: Supports summer research experiences for K-14 educators that foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts and industry partners.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: First Thursday in October, annually
    Description: Supports research on STEM education in one or more of three research areas: STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 9/30, annually 
    Description: Supports research on the physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the atmosphere and the solar wind.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime鈥擯Is are encouraged to submit early in the federal fiscal year (starts on 10/01)
    Description: Supports research on the structure and dynamics of the Earth's upper atmosphere conducted at NSF-supported large incoherent-scatter radar facilities or with the SuperDARN coherent scatter radar system.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Second Friday in October, annually
    Description: Supports research in algebra, algebraic and arithmetic geometry, number theory and representation theory.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 9/16-9/30, annually 
    Description: Supports research in analysis, including complex, harmonic and real analysis; dynamical systems and ergodic theory; functional analysis; mathematical physics; operator theory/algebras; partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense
    Due Date: Multiple programs available throughout the year
    Description: Supports innovative research proposals in the areas of program analysis, verification, and big data analytics for specifying, discovering, and understanding properties of complex software systems. Search CFDA 12.910 in Grants.gov for specific programs.

College of Liberal Arts

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 - 2/1; 8/1 - 8/15, annually
    Description: Seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities American Antiquarian Society
    Proposal: Various Deadlines by program                                                      Description:The American Antiquarian Society offers four broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months.
    • January 15: Short-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
    • January 15: Long-term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
    • May 31: Short-term Virtual Academic Research Fellowships
    • October 5: Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Folger Shakespeare Library
    Due Date: 12/1, annually
    Description: Long-Term residential fellowships (six-nine months) of up to $70,000 for research in fields appropriate to the Folger's collection (British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history of the 15th-18th centuries).
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Folger Shakespeare Library
    Due Date: 1/15, annually
    Description: Short-term applicants may apply for 1, 2, or 3 months of research support research in fields appropriate to the Folger's collection (British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history of the 15th-18th centuries). The requested months may be all onsite, all virtual, or a hybrid of the two. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 and 8/15, annually 
    Description: Supports empirically grounded research that will improve understanding of the general principles and processes that underlie human social and cultural diversity, taking place at any scale from the household to the global. Funds support basic, theory-testing, and generalizable research that also addresses pathways from theory to policy. A project can be proposed to be carried out by a single researcher or a research team.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 and 7/15, annually 
    Description: Supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/30 and 7/30, annually 
    Description: Supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: 1/15 and 7/15, annually                                                                                   Description: Supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the lifespan. Among the many research topics supported are attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations, group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, the social psychology of health, and the psychophysiological correlates of social behavior.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Due Date: 11/1 and 5/1, annually
    Description: Funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. The goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches and ideas.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: LOI: 30 days prior to the application due date, Deadlines in mid-October, mid-February, and mid-June through 2024
    Description: Supports pilot research consistent with NIMH's priorities for preventive and therapeutic interventions with previously demonstrated efficacy, for use with broader target populations or for use in community practice settings, and research on the development and preliminary testing of innovative services interventions. Applications should provide evaluation approaches to improve mental health.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Borealis Philanthropy
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The FTG is committed to providing rapid-response funding to trans-led organizations responding to emerging needs in their communities.FTG's COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund supports mutual aid and care support networks; healing and virtual wellness spaces; online/virtual programming needs; living stipends for members and/or staff; survival needs (i.e. food, rent support, shelter, utilities); and organizing and advocacy. FTG also offers general rapid support funding to organizations and communities in need of additional resources to respond quickly to organized opposition and unanticipated events. 
  • Title:
    Sponsor: The Dirksen Congressional Center
    Due Date: Applications are accepted anytime, awards are made quarterly in January, April, July, and October
    Description: Invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
    Due Date: Rolling Deadline
    Description: Requests small grant proposals up to $5,000 for projects that are focused on pedagogies that encourage students to critically engage with learning experiences involving social justice and civic engagement.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: The objective is to encourage the preservation of unpublished personal research materials of established anthropologists considered of value for research on the history of anthropology. HAP grants (maximum $15,000) are offered to individuals, to assist senior scholars at the end of their careers (or their heirs) with the expense of preparing and transferring their unpublished research materials for archival deposit.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports programs for full-time religion and theology faculty of IHEs and in theological schools. Grants are for projects that enhance religious and theological teaching, learning and research.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: This program gives small awards that provide investigators with the opportunity to assess the feasibility of an anthropological research project. It is required that the proposed activity be clearly high risk in nature. The information gathered may then be used as the basis for preparing a more fully developed research program.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: American Political Science Association
    Due Date: 4/15 and 6/15 annually
    Description: Supports APSA members to conduct research in all areas of political science. Provides Spring and Summer Centenniel Center Research Grants to support the research of political scientists who are employed at institutions that do not grant PhDs in Political Science or related fields. Applicants must be APSA members.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
    Due Date: 2/16, 6/16, 10/16 through February 2025
    Description: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is collecting data on health and mental health, cognitive function, substance use, cultural and environmental factors, and brain structure and function from youth starting when they are 9-10 years-old and following them longitudinally to early adulthood.  These data will be made available to the scientific community through the NIMH Data Archive. The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications proposing the analysis of this public use dataset to increase knowledge of adolescent health and development.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Institute of Mental Health
    Due Date: LOI due 30 days prior to deadline; Application due 5/25 through 2025

    Description: Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation鈥檚 biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Truman Library Institute
    Due Date: 4/1 and 10/1, annually
    Description: Research Grants of up to $2,500 are awarded twice annually to offset the cost of conducting research at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Funding is calculated on the following basis: 1) $175 for any night spent in Independence, Missouri to cover lodging and meals; and 2) airfare based on the best advance-coach fare available or current IRS mileage rate for those driving personal vehicles.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Truman Library Institute
    Due Date: 12/15 in odd-numbered years
    Description: Grants of $30,000 are made to established post-doctoral scholars engaged in work on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. The award is intended to free a senior scholar from teaching or other employment for a substantial period of time. The awarding of the Scholar鈥檚 Award is contingent upon the receipt of underwriting support and of strong proposals from applicants.

College of Fine Arts & Communication

  • Title:
    Sponsor: Folger Shakespeare Library
    Due Date: 1/15, annually                                                                                          Description: Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships are open to all artists whose work would benefit from significant primary research related to the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and its legacies. Artistic applicants may apply for one, two, or three months of research support, with a stipend of $4,000 per month.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
    Due Date: LOI: 12/15, 3/1, 9/1, annually
    Description: Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
    Due Date: LOI: 3/1, 9/1, annually
    Description: Intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Knight Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
    Description: Seeks innovative ideas that advance informed and engaged communities. Program areas include journalism, community, and the arts.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
    Due Date: Inquires can be made anytime, full proposal due upon invitation, final review of those proposals takes place at meetings of the Board of Trustees in March, June, September, and December
    Description: Seeks to nurture exceptional creative accomplishment, scholarship, and conservation practices in the arts, while promoting a diverse and sustainable ecosystem for these disciplines.  The program supports the work of outstanding artists, curators, conservators, and scholars, and endeavors to strengthen performing arts organizations, art museums, research institutes, and conservation centers.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Ford Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime, Full Proposal due upon invitation
    Description: Supports artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these projects.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Henry Luce Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
    Description: Seeks to support a wide range of collection-based projects that advance the understanding and presentation of art of the United States. Eligible collection areas include paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, na茂ve and outsider art, traditional and studio crafts, architecture, design, and all aspects of Native American arts.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: American Musicological Society (AMS)
    Due Date: Deadlines are in mid-February and mid-August, annually
    Description: Support the expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, articles, and works in non-print media. The goal is to defray costs not covered by publishers. Proposals that utilize newer technologies and/or are from scholars in the early stages of their careers are encouraged.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: College Art Association of America
    Due Date: Biannual deadlines of March 15 and September 15 
    Description: Supports presses in the publication of projects of the highest scholarly and intellectual merit that may not generate adequate financial return. Applications for publication grants will be considered only for book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Applications are judged in relation to two criteria: (1) the quality of the project; and (2) the need for financial assistance.

General & Multiple Disciplines

  • Title:
    Sponsor: National Science Foundation
    Due Date: Third Tuesday in January and August, annually 
    Description: Supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Tinker Foundation
    LOI: 7/25/2024                                                                                                       Proposal: 9/19/2024
    Description: Provides project funding to organizations working to improve the lives of Latin Americans, with an emphasis on support for organizations in the region.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Internet Society Foundation
    Due Date: Statements of Interest accepted anytime.
    Description: Supports global research collaborations that advance understanding of the Internet and its value for all. Areas of Focus: Greening the Internet and the Internet Economy.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Institute for Humane Studies
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: Supports students and faculty who are researching and teaching ideas within the classical liberal tradition inside the bounds of the social sciences and humanities by funding a wide range of research and career-advancing activities. From paying for PhD application fees to conference presentation travel* to the purchase of crucial data sets, this unique fund helps cover an extensive array of expenses.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Sempre: Society for Education, Music, and Psychology Research
    Due Date: LOIs Accepted Anytime
    Description: Support new, interdisciplinary initiatives concerned with the advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Nathan Cummings Foundation
    Due Date: LOIs are accepted anytime and reviewed within 60 days. Applications are reviewed three times/year.
    Description: Supports innovative organizations that share the vision of a society that measures its success by how it treats those who have the least, and that works to close the gap between America鈥檚 promise and its imperfect practice. Focus areas include: Inclusive Clean Economy, Racial and Economic Justice, Corporate and Political Accountability, Voice, Creativity and Culture.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Bringing Theory to Practice
    Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
    Description: BTtoP鈥檚 mission is grounded in three commitments. We believe that undergraduate education should be holistic and transformative, nurturing active and integrative learning, personal well-being, preparation for meaningful work, and democratic citizenship. We believe that 鈥渆ducating the whole student鈥 must include students of all backgrounds, interests, and educational settings. And we believe that the first two commitments require significant change in higher education. Fundable activities include: campus visits and convenings, presentations and reports about research and innovative practice, public and high-visibility writing, media and digital projects.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: David & Lucile Packard Foundation
    Due Date: Requests Accepted Anytime
    Description: The problems the foundation seeks to solve are complex, requiring long-term commitment to create lasting change. Funds requests for: Conservation and Science; Children, Families, and Communities; Population and Reproductive Health; Organizational Effectiveness; Mission Investing.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Institute for Humane Studies
    Due Date: Applications accepted anytime
    Description: Programs provide a forum for scholars across the ideological spectrum to convene, collaborate, and challenge ideas. Whether hosting an event or partnering with scholars to launch their own programs, projects foster widespread human progress.

International

  • Title:
    Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development
    Due Date: Applications Reviewed on a Rolling Basis
    Description: Open innovation inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions of people around the world. It also means that game-changing ideas and solutions come from anyone, anywhere, and at any time. Provides flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions. We look for solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale and sustainability.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    Due Date: Accepted anytime
    Description: Supports a variety of fellowships for outstanding researchers in all fields to promote research collaboration with colleagues in Germany. Award winners expected to collaborate on research projects with established academics in Germany.
  • Title:
    Sponsor: Association for Asian Studies
    Due Date: Rolling application deadline
    Description: Solicits applications from American colleges and universities (for Japanese studies) and any U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities (for Korean studies), especially those without well-established programs on East Asia, to invite a distinguished scholar to give a public lecture on their campus virtually, followed by a virtual Q&A with teachers and students.