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: NIA MSTEM: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (ADAR) through Undergraduate Education (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Healthcare Systems in Populations with Health Disparities (R01 -Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Evidence for Action: Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity
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)—as 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: Fund for Trans Generations (FTG)
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: Obesity Research
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: Program Grants
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: Fellowships in Disability Policy Research
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: Muscle Development and Physiology Program
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: Small Grants
Sponsor: Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Small grants support initiatives and activities in Maryland that are consistent with the Council’s mission 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: Board Grants/President’s Grants
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’s 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: Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health
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—anyone, 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: Health Care Quality Improvement & Efficiency Grants
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: Micro-Grants Program
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: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets in Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Small Research Grants for Analyses of Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Data (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets
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: Innovations to Optimize HIV Prevention and Care Continuum Outcomes
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: Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants
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: Making Health Care Safer in Ambulatory Care Settings and Long-term Care Facilities
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: Short Courses for Mental Health Related Research
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’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
Title: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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: Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Health Care Quality Improvement & Efficiency Grants
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: Social disconnection and Suicide Risk in Late Life (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Retirement & Disability Research Funding Opportunities
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.
- Steven H. Sandell Grant Program: $45,000 grant (up to 3) to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement or disability issues. Due October-January.
- Small Grant Program on Poverty, Retirement, and Disability Research: Up to $45,000 grants to support poverty research related to retirement and disability policies and programs. Due December-February.
Title: Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering (DARE)
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: AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award (K01)
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: AHRQ Mentored Career Enhancement Awards for Established Investigators in Patient-Centered Outcome Research (K18)
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: Proposals for Program Evaluations
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: Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science
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: Research Report Stipends
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: Security and Preparedness (SAP)
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: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences (DRMS)
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: Economics
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: Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
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: General Grant Program
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: Exploratory Research Grants
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: Academic Research Grant Program
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: Economic Literacy Grants Program
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: Research and National Technical Assistance
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: Retirement & Disability Research Funding Opportunities
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.
- Steven H. Sandell Grant Program: $45,000 grant (up to 3) to pursue cutting-edge projects on retirement or disability issues. Due October-January.
- Small Grant Program on Poverty, Retirement, and Disability Research: 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: Decision, Risk, and Management Science (DRMS)
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: FY25 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
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: Ideas Lab: Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design
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: Development and Validation of Human Cellular Models for Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) (R01- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Decision, Risk, and Management Science (DRMS)
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: Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
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: Atmospheric System Research (ASR)
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: Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)
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: Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
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: Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
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: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
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: Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T)
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: Security and Preparedness (SAP)
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: Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
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: Laboratory Equipment Donation Program (LEDP)
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: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
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: ONR: Navy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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: Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals accepted anytime; Investigators are advised that the dates from April 15^th to June 15^th 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: NSF/NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG, MPS
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: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
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: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
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: Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
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: Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)
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: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects (MCB)
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: Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR)
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: Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS)
Sponsor: The Simon’s 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: Travel Grant Program
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: Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
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: Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
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: Hydrologic Sciences
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: Geophysics Program
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: Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics
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: Climate and Large-Scale Dynamcs (CLD)
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’s 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: Aeronomy
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’s 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: Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS)
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: Comcast Innovation Fund
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’s a conference that’s being organized, or a new piece of hardware that’s being invented. Either way, it helps advance the growth of the Internet and the Internet Community.
Title: Small Grants Program
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: Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP)
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: Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
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: General Grants
Sponsor: Lockheed Martin
Due Date: Accepted on a Rolling Basis and Reviewed Quarterly
Description: Supports the Corporation’s strategic business goals, primarily in the focus areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and military and veteran causes.
Title: Tectonics
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: Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
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: Antarctic Research
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: Petrology and Geochemistry
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: Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS)
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: Arctic Research Opportunities
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: Transitions to Excellence and Cellular Biosciences Research
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: Nanoscale Interactions
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: Plant Biotic Interactions
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Notice seeking proposals for 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: Infrastructure Capacity for Biology
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: Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research
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: Plant Genome Research Program
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: Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: Program focuses on geochemical processes in terrestrial Earth’s 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: Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
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: Grants-in-Aid and Research Grants
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: INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Clinical Research Short Course
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: Research Opportunities in Physical Sciences (ROPS)
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: Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
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: Smart and Connected Communities
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: Research on Current Topics in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Related Dementias
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: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T35)
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: Nanoscale Interactions
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: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
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: Re-entry to Active Research Program (RARE)
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’s most highly trained scientists and engineers, while broadening participation and increasing diversity of experience.
Title: Quantum Information Sciences
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense—Air 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’s C4I mission.
Title: Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN)
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: Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC)
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: Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering (DARE)
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: Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
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: Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG)
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: Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC)
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: Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)
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: Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Core Programs
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: Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science
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: Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (ECR: Core)
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: Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM)
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: Geospace Facilities (GF)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime—PIs 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: Algebra and Number Theory
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: Analysis
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: DARPA: Information Innovation Office
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: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) Program
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: Research Fellowships
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: Long-Term Residential Fellowship
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: Short-Term Residential Fellowship
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: Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)
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: Linguistics Programs
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: Developmental Sciences
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: Social Psychology
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: Post-PhD Research Grant
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: Pilot Effectiveness Trials for Treatment, Preventive and Services Interventions (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
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: Fund for Trans Generations (FTG)
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: Congressional Research Grants
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: Special Call for Proposals: Pedagogies for Social Justice and Civic Engagement
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: Historical Archives Program (HAP)
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: Grants for Projects up to $5,000
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: High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
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: Centennial Center Research Grants
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: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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: Short Courses for Mental Health Related Research
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’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
Title: Research Grants
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: Scholar’s Award
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’s Award is contingent upon the receipt of underwriting support and of strong proposals from applicants.

College of Fine Arts & Communication

Title: Artist Research Fellowship
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: History of Art Grants
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: Digital Art History Grants
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: Knight Foundation Funding
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: Arts and Cultural Heritage
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: JustFilms
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: Responsive Grants
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, naïve and outsider art, traditional and studio crafts, architecture, design, and all aspects of Native American arts.
Title: AMS Subventions for Publications
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: Millard Meiss Publication Fund
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: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)
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: Democractic Governance, Education, and Sustainable Resource Management
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: Research Grant Program
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: Hayek Fund for Scholars
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: Arnold Bentley New Initiatives Fund
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: Grant Programs
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’s promise and its imperfect practice. Focus areas include: Inclusive Clean Economy, Racial and Economic Justice, Corporate and Political Accountability, Voice, Creativity and Culture.
Title: Amplifying, Disseminating, and Increasing the Public Reach of Research and Practice Supported by BTtoP
Sponsor: Bringing Theory to Practice
Due Date: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Description: BTtoP’s 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 “educating the whole student” 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: Various Grants
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: Grants for Scholars
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: Development Innovation Ventures (DIV)
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: Humboldt Research Fellowships
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: Northeast Asia Council Distinguished Speakers Bureau
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.