Announcements from the Office of Research
Research Announcements
Chancellor Grasso and Chancellor Dutta Initiate a New Collaboration between UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint Campuses.
2023 Information:
Register for the 2023 UM-Dearborn – UM-Flint Collaborative Research Series hosted by the University of Michigan-Dearborn Office of Research and the University of Michigan-Flint Office of Research & Economic Development.
The series’ three events include research lightning talks by faculty from both campuses and networking, to help participants find potential research collaborators. At the conclusion of the series, teams led by PIs from both campuses (one PI from Dearborn and one PI from Flint) will have an opportunity to apply for collaborative research grants ranging from $20,000 to $40,000. The award criteria will focus on developing cross-campus research collaborations with potential for external funding. The grant guidelines and application portal are now available.
Please use the RSVP form to register to attend any of the networking events and/or to create a research profile. A Research profile database of other participants is available to help find collaborators. Attendance to one of the networking events is strongly encouraged but not required to apply for a grant. To attend one of the events registration is required and only registered participants will receive the events' call-in information.
Networking Events:
- Recording of February 24 Event: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Learning and Communication
Lightning Talks Speakers:- Bochen Jia, Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, UM-Dearborn
- Jeffrey Yackley, Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Informatics, UM-Flint
- Marie Waung, Professor of Psychology, UM-Dearborn
- Jeyoung (Jenny) Oh, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, UM-Flint
- Feng Zhou, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, UM-Dearborn
- Syagnik Banerjee, Professor of Marketing, UM-Flint
- Recording of March 17 Event: Health, Engineering and Analytics. Lightning Talks Speakers include:
- Alireza Mohammadi, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UM-Dearborn
- Khalil Khanafer, Assistant Professor of Engineering, UM-Flint
- Mathumai Kanapathipillai, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UM-Dearborn
- Charlotte Tang, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UM-Dearborn
- Antonios Koumpias, Assistant Professor of Economics, UM-Dearborn
- Amy Yorke, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, UM-Flint
- Recording of March 24 Event: Community Engaged Research, Equity, Education and Urban Living. Lightning Talks Speakers include:
- Jennifer LaCosse, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UM-Flint
- Jacob Napieralski, Professor of Geology and Geographic Information Systems, UM-Dearborn
- Heather Dawson, Professor of Biology, UM-Flint
- Fred Feng, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, UM-Dearborn
- Kazuko Hiramatsu, Associate Professor of Linguistics, UM-Flint
- DeLean Tolbert Smith, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, UM-Dearborn
2022 Information:
A new collaborative research initiative supported by Chancellor Grasso and Chancellor Dutta will be hosted by the University of Michigan Dearborn’s Office of Research and the University of Michigan Flint’s Office of Research & Economic Development. The initiative will include a series of four Zoom events, each one consisting of lightning talks & networking opportunities, to help participants find potential research collaborators. At the conclusion of the series, teams led by PIs from both campuses (one PI from Dearborn and one PI from Flint) will have an opportunity to apply for collaborative research grants ranging from $20,000 to $40,000. The award criteria will focus on developing cross-campus research collaborations with potential for external funding.
Attendance of one or more events is strongly encouraged but *not* required to apply for a grant. There are *no* topic limitations for this program- applications in all areas of research will be accepted. Research profiles of interested collaborators from both campuses is now available to view. Submit a Contact Card to be added to the Research profile database.
View here the UM-Dearborn – UM-Flint Collaborative Research Grants Program Guidelines. The program application window is January 28, 10 AM - April 25, 2022, 5:00 PM. Applications will be accepted via InfoReady.
Event Recordings:
(NOTE: available only to UM community & requires log in with UM credentials)
- Urban Arts & Culture and Sustainability Recording: January 28, 2022
- Health and Engineering Recording: February 18, 2022
- Educational Innovation, AI and Computer Science Recording: March 11, 2022
- Social Justice & Community Engagement: March 25, 2022
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Selected Solicitations Monthly Lists
The Office of Research publishes a list of selected funding opportunities, organized by college, every month. Check out the most recent selection below.
Funding Entity | Program Title & Links | Description | Deadline |
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DoD | Transforming Healthcare through Innovative and Impactful Research | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details |
DOJ | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details
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DOJ | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details
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DOJ | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details
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NASA | NASA recently announced its Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences program suite for 2023, with dozens of RFPs covering a wide variety of STEM focus areas (materials science, engineering, space science, etc.). | Deadlines vary depending on subprogram
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NEH | In October 2023, NEH launched a new agency-wide research initiative, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and security; and privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
| Varies based on program - see website for details
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NSF | CIVIC is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. CIVIC funds projects that pilot state-of-the-art solutions to community challenges over 12 months, following a six-month planning phase, and have the potential for lasting impact in the partnering community as well as the potential to be scaled and implemented in other communities. Additionally, the foundation for CIVIC projects should be rooted in maturing and transitioning state-of-the-art research in disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, engineering, geosciences, biological sciences, and social sciences.
| May 1, 2024
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NSF | EMpowering BRoader Academic Capacity and Education (EMBRACE) | The EMBRACE program aims to mitigate multiple barriers faced by faculty members in geosciences and related fields at non-R1 institutions in submitting and obtaining federal funding (e.g., high teaching loads, increased expectations for teaching and mentoring, low or no start-up packages, and limited institutional infrastructure and research support personnel).The EMBRACE program supports two categories of proposals: Seed and Growth.
Seed proposals can request up to two years of funding for faculty members in GEO-related disciplines at non-R1 institutions to (1) initiate research and/or education programs at their own institutions; and/or (2) build or catalyze research collaborations or partnerships.
Growth proposals can request up to four years of funding to enable faculty members at non-R1 institutions to establish independent GEO-related disciplinary research programs. In addition to research, funding may be used to support undergraduate and/or graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, salary (summer, course buyout, sabbatical) and other research related expenses.
| May 15, 2024
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DOJ | NIJ Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System | In this program, NIJ seeks applications for two categories of investigator-initiated research: (1) studies that examine how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy intervention at any point during the administration of justice and (2) studies that advance knowledge and practice, policy, or both regarding the intersections of race, ethnicity, crime, and justice within the United States.
| May 16, 2024
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DOD | Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | The MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program, according to DOD, has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. A wide variety of STEM fields are supported.
| White paper deadline: May 17, 2024 (not required but STRONGLY encouraged)
September 6, 2024
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NEH | This program supports community-based efforts to address the impacts of climate change and COVID-19 by safeguarding cultural resources and fostering cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experiences.
| May 21, 2024
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NEH | The NEH Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for the Research and Development program. This program supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. Research and Development offers two funding tiers to address projects at all stages of development and implementation.
| May 21, 2024
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NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education | This program aims to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the NSF focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.
| May 30, 2024
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NSF | Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning | This program seeks to support research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery.
| June 03, 2024
February 05, 2025
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NIH | Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) | The rapid evolution and vitality of the biomedical sciences benefit from the contributions and creativity of investigators in the early stages of their careers, and a continuous infusion of new ideas, techniques, and perspectives from other fields. This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs at the interface of engineering and/or the physical sciences with the biomedical sciences. Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NIBIB Program Director assigned to their specific scientific program area to discuss the appropriateness of the project before submission. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) employs an R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant mechanism enhanced to provide $400,000 in direct costs over three years, allowing expanded time and resources to pursue a new or emerging research program. | June 16, 2024
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NIH | This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing. Research areas of interest include understanding differences and similarities between objective social isolation and loneliness, how complex biopsychosocial processes are regulated in the body, what occurs in response to dysregulation, and antecedent processes that influence responses to the trajectories of social relationships. Studies that involve neurobiological approaches—for example, how social or isolated settings influence neurobiological systems, brain function, and/or behavior are welcome. Projects designed to study how changes in the quantity and/or quality of social connections influence health behaviors and outcomes are encouraged. This FOA also encourages projects that incorporate aims to promote methods and measures needed to support a cumulative and integrated approach to the study of social connectedness and isolation. | June 21, 2024
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NIH | Research Projects in Physical Sciences: Oncology (U01 Clinical Trial Optional) (NIH) | This program aims to foster the convergence of physical sciences approaches and perspectives with cancer research to advance our understanding of cancer biology and oncology by forming transdisciplinary teams of physical scientists and cancer biologists/physician scientists. Examples of physical scientists may include engineers, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, and computer scientists.
| July 01, 2024
November 01, 2024 |
NSF | This program supports anthropologically relevant archaeological research to increase understanding of past behaviors. This means that the value of the proposed research can be justified within an anthropological context. It is the responsibility of the investigator to explain convincingly why the focus of their research is significant and has the potential to contribute to anthropological knowledge.
| July 1, 2024
July 1 and December 1, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology. Projects funded by the Social Psychology Program support the NSF mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense. Proposals considered by the Social Psychology Program must communicate both the intellectual merit of the science and its broader societal impacts. Proposed research should carry strong potential for creating transformative advances in the basic understanding of human social behavior. Among the many research topics supported are: social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences. Proposals that develop new theories or methods for understanding social behavior are highly encouraged. Research samples should represent substantial ranges of ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, and other dimensions of human populations. | July 15, 2024
January 15 & July 15, annually thereafter
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NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources | This is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public.
| July 17, 2024 Level 2 and 3 proposals Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter (Level 2 and 3 proposals)
Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter (Level 1 proposals)
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NSF | Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
| The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. | July 24, 2024
Fourth Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter
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NIH | NIAID Research Education Program (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on:
| July 25, 2024
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NSF | This program seeks to advance scientific knowledge about the processes that have shaped biological diversity in living and fossil humans and their primate relatives through support of basic research on human and primate evolution, biological variation, and interactions between biology, behavior, and culture. The program supports a portfolio of research that demonstrates engagement with biological anthropological and evolutionary theory; includes diverse and interdisciplinary methods in field, laboratory and computational settings; encompasses multiple levels of analysis (e.g., molecular, organismal, population, ecosystem) and time scales from the short-term to evolutionary; and considers the ethical implications and societal impacts of the research. | July 20 - July 30, 2024 January 20 - 31 and July 20 - July 30, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science | RETS with a focus on Biological Sciences (BIORETS) will include research projects in fields that are supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences. BIORETS may be based in a single discipline or department or may offer interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. An important goal of the program is to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in biological research and those from geographically underrepresented areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Proposals are strongly encouraged to involve members of these groups both as participants and as mentors. BIORETS awards are expected to leverage the teachers’ research experiences for curriculum development, with the goal of enriching their classroom teaching practices and inspiring a broad swath of students to consider higher education and careers in STEM. | July 31 2024
July 31, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, interacting with multiple arenas, and with the participation of multiple actors. Fields of study include many disciplines, and often address problems including, though not limited, to:
| August 01, 2024
January 15 and August 01 Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- societies, institutions, groups, and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender, race, and the sociology of science and technology. The Program supports both original data collections and secondary data analysis that use the full range of quantitative and qualitative methodological tools. Theoretically grounded projects that offer methodological innovations and improvements for data collection and analysis are also welcomed. In assessing the intrinsic merit of proposed research, four components are key to securing support from the Sociology Program: (1) the issues investigated must be theoretically grounded; (2) the research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation or illustration; (3) the research design must be appropriate to the questions asked; and (4) the proposed research must advance our understanding of social processes, structures and methods. | August 01, 2024 January 15 and August 01 Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Science and Technology Studies (STS)
| Science and Technology Studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of STEM, including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues. | August 03, 2024
February 2, and August 3, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | This program supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences; this social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues and have strong broader impacts.
| August 19, 2024
August 18 & January 18, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It 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. | August 19, 2024 January 18, Annually Thereafter August 18 & January 18, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support 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. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences. HEGS welcomes proposals that creatively integrate scientific and critical approaches, and that engage rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods in novel ways. HEGS supported projects are expected to yield results that will enhance, expand, and transform fundamental geographical theory and methods, and that will have positive broader impacts that benefit society. A proposal to the HEGS Program must also articulate how the results are generalizable beyond the case study. It should be noted that HEGS is situated in the Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at NSF. Therefore, it is critical that research projects submitted to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program illustrate how the proposed research questions engage human dimensions relevant and important to people and societies. | August 20, 2024
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NSF | Significant advances have been made in the ability of researchers to predict the 3D structure of proteins from primary sequence, and to use that information to design proteins with desired characteristics. These advances have been enabled by macromolecular modeling; training data available in repositories such as the Protein Data Bank; the application of AI and machine learning; and high-throughput protein characterization. The improved accuracy of in-silico design has reduced the number of constructs that need to be validated in costly and time-consuming “wet lab” experiments. This program aims to accelerate the translation of novel approaches to protein design and enable new applications of importance to the U.S. bioeconomy.
| August 30, 2024
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DOD | FY24 Department of Navy STEM Education and Workforce Program | As the capacity of the DON Science and Technology workforce is interconnected with the STEM education system, DON recognizes the need to support efforts that can jointly improve STEM student outcomes and align educational and outreach efforts with Naval S&T current and future workforce needs. This announcement explicitly encourages programs that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students of all ages and the naval related workforce. Programs must aim to increase engagement in naval relevant STEM, and enhance the corresponding skills, knowledge, and abilities of participants. ONR encourages applicants to utilize current STEM educational research for informing program design and advancing STEM careers and opportunities of naval relevance. | August 30, 2024 |
NSF | Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities. | September 3, 2024
February 2 and September 3 Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), in their report "Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges," identified five critical challenges we must address as a society: sustainably supply food, water, and energy; curb climate change and adapt to its impacts; design a future without pollution and waste; create efficient, healthy, and resilient cities; and foster informed decisions and actions. This solicitation will support projects that tackle these grand challenges using a convergent research model that seamlessly integrates fundamental knowledge and expertise from the fields of chemical process, transport, and biological science and engineering with that of the sustainability and environmental engineering fields. A brief review of convergence research concepts and models can be found on the NSF website - Convergence Reports and References. Accordingly, the Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET) solicitation will support fundamental research activities that confront vexing environmental engineering and sustainability problems by developing foundational knowledge underlying processes and mechanisms such that the design of innovative new materials, processes, and systems is possible. Projects should be compelling and reflect sustained, coordinated efforts from highly interdisciplinary research teams. A key objective of the solicitation is to encourage dialogue and tightly integrated collaborations wherein members of the chemical process systems, transport phenomena, and bioengineering research communities engage with environmental engineering and sustainability experts to spark innovation and arrive at unanticipated solutions. Furthermore, training the future workforce to successfully engage in discipline-transcending research will support continued innovation toward surmounting the complex environmental and sustainability challenges facing our global community. | Preliminary Proposal Due: September 17, 2024 September 17, Annually Thereafter
Full Proposal Due: January 31, 2025 January 31, Annually Thereafter | |
DOE | FY2024 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | This program hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following DOE program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. | September 30, 2024
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NSF | Ideas Lab: Breaking the Low Latency Barrier for Verticals in Next-G Wireless Networks | This TIP program aims to identify and address critical architectural, technical and technological issues that must be resolved in fifth-generation (5G) and next generation (Next-G) wireless networks to provide the necessary low-latency performance that is required for the success of key emerging vertical industries. There are critical bottlenecks at various points in the end-to-end network path from the application to the cloud resulting from the existing design, architectural, protocol, processing, optimization and implementation choices across both control and user planes, as well as the lack of low-latency vertical applications-driven technology development, which this program aims to solve.
| September 30, 2024 |
NEH | Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education
| The NEH is accepting applications for the five Humanities Initiatives programs (including MSI applicants, etc.). These programs strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new or enhancing existing programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses that explore, interpret, and preserve the diversity of human cultures, ideas, and practices, past and present.
| October 1, 2024 (anticipated)
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NSF | The National Science Foundation invites proposals from individual investigators or interdisciplinary teams of scientists to conduct innovative, integrated, mechanistic, systems-oriented macroscale biology ("Macrosystems Biology") research to detect, explain, and forecast the regional to continental scale consequences of changing climate, land-use, biogeochemical cycles, and biological invasions. Proposals should identify the scales where the ecological research challenges are the greatest and where research has the greatest potential to transform the fields of ecology and environmental biology by harnessing the tools of large-scale biological infrastructure for ecological research. Projects should be well grounded in theory and use novel, mechanistic, and quantitative approaches that develop a more predictive understanding of ecological dynamics at multiple scales and their contributions to the structure, function, and transformation of the biosphere. Proposals should include quantitative research approaches such as advanced dynamical, statistical, or computational models; numerical simulations; artificial intelligence techniques; visualization; and/or development of databases and pipelines. Proposals for the development and/or integration of macrosystems models (e.g., data-assimilation, biological, ecological, environmental, forecasting) that connect and cross local, regional, and continental scales are encouraged. These models should address key problems linking ecological and/or evolutionary processes and environmental change over a multiple spatial and temporal scales. Projects should develop theoretical foundations that will be useful for modeling based on either existing data and/or data collected by environmental observatories. Quantitative, statistical process models and computational approaches should include reproducible descriptions of data sources and appropriate estimates of uncertainty, and experimental designs should include assessments of power and precision. Proposal Categories:
| November 11, 2024 Second Monday in November, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding the nervous system at all levels, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines to accelerate the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system. Through the CRCNS program, the participating funding organizations support collaborative activities that span a broad spectrum of computational neuroscience research, as appropriate to the missions and strategic objectives of each agency. | November 13, 2024 | |
NSF | This program aims to catalyze research and development that enhances all preK-12 teachers’ and students’ opportunities to engage in high-quality learning experiences related to STEM. The program’s objectives are to: (1) build knowledge about how to develop preK-12 students’ and teachers’ STEM content knowledge, practices, and skills; (2) support collaborative partnerships among STEM education researchers, STEM education practitioners and school leaders with the goals of extending relevant scientific literatures while developing more effective practice; and (3) build the field of STEM education by supporting knowledge synthesis, interdisciplinary interactions across fields and stakeholders.
| November 13, 2024
Second Wednesday in November, Annually Thereafter | |
NSF | This program is an inclusive and flexible funding opportunity that aims to support research in the astronomical sciences. The program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, laboratory, and archival data studies in astronomy and astrophysics. The program also considers proposals for projects and tools that enable or enhance astronomical research. Proposals may span multiple disciplines and/or areas of study and may utilize multiple techniques. | November 15, 2024
November 15 annually
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EPA | Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program | This program funds community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. This historic level of support will enable communities and their partners to overcome longstanding environmental challenges and implement meaningful solutions to meet community needs now and for generations to come. Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million to $20 million; Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million to $3 million.
IHEs are eligible to apply in partnership. | Proposals accepted at time through November 21, 2024 |
NEH | The Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Typically, the texts are significant literary, philosophical, and historical materials, but works in other humanities fields may also be the subject of an edition.
The program supports continuous full-time or part-time activities during the period of performance of one to three years. At least two scholars must work collaboratively on the project.
In addition to supporting editorial projects at an implementation stage, the program also encourages applications for up to two-year projects at a planning stage that are determining the scope of the corpus, collecting documents, establishing the editorial and translation policies, evaluating the target audiences and determining their needs, selecting collaborators, and planning for dissemination and digital sustainability. | November 27, 2024 (anticipated)
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NSF | This program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research; science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media.
| January 08, 2025
Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T) | The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and technology (S&T) enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. NCSES uses this information to prepare a number of statistical data reports including Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering and the National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators. The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys as well as promote the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES or other data to conduct research on the S&T enterprise, develop improved survey methodologies that could benefit NCSES surveys, explore alternate data sources that could supplement NCSES data, create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, strengthen methodologies to analyze S&T statistical data, and explore innovative ways to communicate S&T statistics. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, conferences, experimental research, survey research and data collection, and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T). | January 21, 2025 Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | This program aims to support fundamental research about what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical conduct of research. The ER2 program seeks to encourage STEM researchers, practitioners, and educators at all career stages to conduct research with integrity and to educate others 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. | January 23 2025
Fourth Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter
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| The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research. MCA support is expected to help lift these constraints to reduce workload inequities and enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented) at high academic ranks. | February 1 - March 1, Annually
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NSF | The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include, but are not limited to, the effects of natural selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or ecosystems; the effects of interspecific interactions that vary over time and space; population or community dynamics for organisms that have extended life spans and long turnover times; feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate to longer time scales; and external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long return intervals. All proposals submitted through the LTREB solicitation are processed by 1 of the 3 clusters in the Division of Environmental Biology: Ecosystem Science, Population and Community Ecology, and Evolutionary Processes. Proposals must address topics supported by these clusters. Researchers who are uncertain about the suitability of their project for the LTREB Program are encouraged to contact the cognizant Program Officer. | Full Proposals Accepted Anytime
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NSF | This program supports fundamental research that explores embodied reasoning as mediated by bidirectional sensorimotor interaction between human and synthetic actors. The M3X Program seeks to spur innovative and path-breaking work that can improve understanding of interaction between human and synthetic actors in a broad range of settings, while also exploring implications for the advancement of fundamental theory, foundational technologies, and meaningful applications. | Proposals accepted any time
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NSF | In today's increasingly networked, distributed, and asynchronous world, cybersecurity involves hardware, software, networks, data, people, and integration with the physical world. Society's overwhelming reliance on this complex cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities that defy existing cyber-defense measures; corporations, agencies, national infrastructure, and individuals continue to suffer cyber-attacks. Achieving a truly secure cyberspace requires addressing both challenging scientific and engineering problems involving many components of a system, and vulnerabilities that stem from human behaviors and choices. Examining the fundamentals of security and privacy as a multidisciplinary subject can lead to fundamentally new ways to design, build, and operate cyber systems; protect existing infrastructure; and motivate and educate individuals about cybersecurity.
The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, drawing on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication, and information sciences; engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both welcome. | Proposals Accepted Anytime
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NSF | The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time. Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science). DEB also encourages interdisciplinary proposals that cross conceptual boundaries and integrate over levels of biological organization or across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Research addressing ecology and ecosystem science in the marine biome should be directed to the Biological Oceanography Program in the Division of Ocean Sciences; research addressing evolution and systematics in the marine biome should be directed to the Evolutionary Processes or Systematics and Biodiversity Science programs in DEB.
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NSF | Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences | The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that engage with the mathematical and statistical challenges presented by (1) the ever-expanding role of computational experimentation, modeling, and simulation on the one hand, and (2) the explosion in production and analysis of digital data from experimental and observational sources on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical software tools, and the theory underpinning those tools, that will be essential for addressing these challenges.
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NSF | The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in areas of applied and computational mathematics with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology. | Proposals Accepted Anytime
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DoD | Transforming Healthcare through Innovative and Impactful Research | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details |
NASA | NASA recently announced its Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences program suite for 2023, with dozens of RFPs covering a wide variety of STEM focus areas (materials science, engineering, space science, etc.). | Deadlines vary depending on subprogram
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NEH | In October 2023, NEH launched a new agency-wide research initiative, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and security; and privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
| Varies based on program - see website | |
NSF | CIVIC is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. CIVIC funds projects that pilot state-of-the-art solutions to community challenges over 12 months, following a six-month planning phase, and have the potential for lasting impact in the partnering community as well as the potential to be scaled and implemented in other communities. Additionally, the foundation for CIVIC projects should be rooted in maturing and transitioning state-of-the-art research in disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, engineering, geosciences, biological sciences, and social sciences.
| May 1, 2024
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NSF | ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (NSF) | The ACED program seeks to harness computing to accelerate scientific discovery, while driving new computing advancements. The intent is to catalyze advancements on both sides of a virtuous cycle that: (a) benefit scientific disciplines through computational technologies and (b) foster novel computing technologies that will enable advances beyond the specific use cases or domains originally targeted. The program seeks continuous collaborations between at least two groups of researchers.
| May 13 2024 Emerging Ideas Proposals Only
January 14 2025 January 14, Annually Thereafter Discovery Proposals Only 2025 and 2026
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DOD | Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | The MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program, according to DOD, has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. A wide variety of STEM fields are supported.
| White paper deadline: May 17, 2024 (not required but STRONGLY encouraged)
September 6, 2024
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DOE | This program supports basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of AI for science. Specifically, advancements in this area are sought that can enable the development of foundation models for computational science; automated scientific workflows and laboratories; scientific programming and scientific-knowledge-management systems; federated and privacy-preserving training for foundation and other AI models for science; and energy-efficient AI algorithms and hardware for science.
| May 21, 2024
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NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education | This program aims to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the NSF focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.
| May 30, 2024
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NSF | Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning | This program seeks to support research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery.
| June 03, 2024
February 05, 2025
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NSF | This program aims to provide all U.S. students with the opportunity to participate in computer science and computational thinking education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. With this solicitation, the NSF focuses on both research and research-practice partnerships that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools.
While CS4A will require K-12 partnerships with IHE applicants, it should be noted that virtually all grantees are IHEs. | June 04, 2024
February 12, 2025 Second Wednesday in February, Annually Thereafter
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NIH | Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) | The rapid evolution and vitality of the biomedical sciences benefit from the contributions and creativity of investigators in the early stages of their careers, and a continuous infusion of new ideas, techniques, and perspectives from other fields. This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs at the interface of engineering and/or the physical sciences with the biomedical sciences. Applicants are encouraged to contact the appropriate NIBIB Program Director assigned to their specific scientific program area to discuss the appropriateness of the project before submission. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) employs an R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant mechanism enhanced to provide $400,000 in direct costs over three years, allowing expanded time and resources to pursue a new or emerging research program. | June 16, 2024
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NSF | Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities. | September 3, 2024
February 2 and September 3, Annually Thereafter | |
NSF | Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) | This program supports early-career scientists at non-Carnegie R1 institutions in computer and information science and engineering who lack access to organizational resources, enabling them to undertake exploratory research and develop collaborations and new approaches. It is expected that funds obtained through this program will be used to support untenured faculty or research scientists (or equivalent) in their first three years in a primary academic position after the PhD, but not more than six years after completion of their PhD.
| September 17, 2024
Third Wednesday in September, Annually Thereafter |
NSF | The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), in their report "Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century: Addressing Grand Challenges," identified five critical challenges we must address as a society: sustainably supply food, water, and energy; curb climate change and adapt to its impacts; design a future without pollution and waste; create efficient, healthy, and resilient cities; and foster informed decisions and actions. This solicitation will support projects that tackle these grand challenges using a convergent research model that seamlessly integrates fundamental knowledge and expertise from the fields of chemical process, transport, and biological science and engineering with that of the sustainability and environmental engineering fields. A brief review of convergence research concepts and models can be found on the NSF website - Convergence Reports and References. Accordingly, the Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET) solicitation will support fundamental research activities that confront vexing environmental engineering and sustainability problems by developing foundational knowledge underlying processes and mechanisms such that the design of innovative new materials, processes, and systems is possible. Projects should be compelling and reflect sustained, coordinated efforts from highly interdisciplinary research teams. A key objective of the solicitation is to encourage dialogue and tightly integrated collaborations wherein members of the chemical process systems, transport phenomena, and bioengineering research communities engage with environmental engineering and sustainability experts to spark innovation and arrive at unanticipated solutions. Furthermore, training the future workforce to successfully engage in discipline-transcending research will support continued innovation toward surmounting the complex environmental and sustainability challenges facing our global community. | Preliminary Proposal Due: September 17, 2024
September 17 Annually Thereafter
Full Proposal Due: January 31, 2025
January 31, Annually Thereafter
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HHS | Similar to DARPA and ARPA-E, the HHS’s ARPA-H will foster innovations that are entirely novel proofs of concept or contribute directly to advance the goals of government-wide initiatives such as the Cancer Moonshot; Advancing the American Bioeconomy; Clinical Trial Readiness; the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; the National Action Plan for Combatting Anti-Microbial Resistance; or unity agenda priorities on addressing mental health and curbing the opioid epidemic. More specifically, ARPA-H has identified four initial focus areas that are a priority for investment: (1) Health Science Futures, (2) Scalable Solutions, (3) Proactive Health, and (4) Resilient Systems.
| Abstracts Due March 14, 2024
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DOD | This program seeks proposals relating to the advancement of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems. Proposed research should investigate unique and innovative approaches for defining and developing next generation integratable C4ISR capabilities and command suites.
| June 07, 2024 | |
DOD | This program seeks proposals relating to the advancement of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance capabilities, enabling technologies for Information Operations and Cyberspace Operations, and Information Technology systems. Proposed research should investigate unique and innovative approaches for defining and developing next generation integratable C4ISR capabilities and command suites.
| June 07, 2024 | |
NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources | This is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public.
| July 17, 2024
Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter (Level 2 and 3 proposals)
Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter (Level 1 proposals)
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NSF | Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
| The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. | July 24, 2024
Fourth Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues. | August 3, 2024
February 2 and August 3 Annually Thereafter | |
NSF | Significant advances have been made in the ability of researchers to predict the 3D structure of proteins from primary sequence, and to use that information to design proteins with desired characteristics. These advances have been enabled by macromolecular modeling; training data available in repositories such as the Protein Data Bank; the application of AI and machine learning; and high-throughput protein characterization. The improved accuracy of in-silico design has reduced the number of constructs that need to be validated in costly and time-consuming “wet lab” experiments. This program aims to accelerate the translation of novel approaches to protein design and enable new applications of importance to the U.S. bioeconomy.
| August 30, 2024
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DOD | FY24 Department of Navy STEM Education and Workforce Program | As the capacity of the DON Science and Technology workforce is interconnected with the STEM education system, DON recognizes the need to support efforts that can jointly improve STEM student outcomes and align educational and outreach efforts with Naval S&T current and future workforce needs. This announcement explicitly encourages programs that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students of all ages and the naval related workforce. Programs must aim to increase engagement in naval relevant STEM, and enhance the corresponding skills, knowledge, and abilities of participants. ONR encourages applicants to utilize current STEM educational research for informing program design and advancing STEM careers and opportunities of naval relevance. | August 30, 2024 |
DOE | FY2024 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | This program hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following DOE program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. | September 30, 2024 |
NSF | Ideas Lab: Breaking the Low Latency Barrier for Verticals in Next-G Wireless Networks | This TIP program aims to identify and address critical architectural, technical and technological issues that must be resolved in fifth-generation (5G) and next generation (Next-G) wireless networks to provide the necessary low-latency performance that is required for the success of key emerging vertical industries. There are critical bottlenecks at various points in the end-to-end network path from the application to the cloud resulting from the existing design, architectural, protocol, processing, optimization and implementation choices across both control and user planes, as well as the lack of low-latency vertical applications-driven technology development, which this program aims to solve.
| September 30, 2024 |
NSF | Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding the nervous system at all levels, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines to accelerate the understanding of nervous system structure and function, mechanisms underlying nervous system disorders, and computational strategies used by the nervous system. Through the CRCNS program, the participating funding organizations support collaborative activities that span a broad spectrum of computational neuroscience research, as appropriate to the missions and strategic objectives of each agency. | November 13, 2024 | |
NSF | This program aims to catalyze research and development that enhances all preK-12 teachers’ and students’ opportunities to engage in high-quality learning experiences related to STEM. The program’s objectives are to: (1) build knowledge about how to develop preK-12 students’ and teachers’ STEM content knowledge, practices, and skills; (2) support collaborative partnerships among STEM education researchers, STEM education practitioners and school leaders with the goals of extending relevant scientific literatures while developing more effective practice; and (3) build the field of STEM education by supporting knowledge synthesis, interdisciplinary interactions across fields and stakeholders. | November 13, 2024 Second Wednesday in November, Annually Thereafter | |
EPA | Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program | This program funds community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. This historic level of support will enable communities and their partners to overcome longstanding environmental challenges and implement meaningful solutions to meet community needs now and for generations to come. Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million to $20 million; Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million to $3 million.
IHEs are eligible to apply in partnership. | Proposals accepted at time through November 21, 2024
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NSF | This program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research; science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media.
| January 08, 2025
Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T) | The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and technology (S&T) enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers and the public. NCSES uses this information to prepare a number of statistical data reports including Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering and the National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering (S&E) Indicators. The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys as well as promote the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES or other data to conduct research on the S&T enterprise, develop improved survey methodologies that could benefit NCSES surveys, explore alternate data sources that could supplement NCSES data, create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, strengthen methodologies to analyze S&T statistical data, and explore innovative ways to communicate S&T statistics. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, conferences, experimental research, survey research and data collection, and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T).
| January 21, 2025
Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | This program aims to support fundamental research about what constitutes or promotes responsible and ethical conduct of research. The ER2 program seeks to encourage STEM researchers, practitioners, and educators at all career stages to conduct research with integrity and to educate others 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. | January 23, 2025
Fourth Thursday in January, Annually Thereafter
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| The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research. MCA support is expected to help lift these constraints to reduce workload inequities and enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented) at high academic ranks. | February 1 - March 1, Annually
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DoD | This FOA supports STEM Workforce Development programs or projects that align with the Federal STEM Strategy and the DoD STEM Mission. This announcement encourages programs or projects that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students and teachers, and prepare the 21st century STEM workforce. | June 17, 2025 | |
DoD | The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research and technology. For purposes of this BAA, S&T includes activities involving basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and, under certain conditions, may include activities involving advanced component development and prototypes. Ongoing Areas of Interest:
| Proposals Accepted Until July 31, 2026 Whitepapers REQUIRED prior to proposal submission
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DOD | ARL seeks to create and experimentally demonstrate concepts, algorithms and enabling technologies that will provide the Army with new capabilities in sensing across the entire RF spectrum up through millimeter-wave and THz frequencies. Both active and passive RF sensing are used for targeting, detection & tracking of airborne and ground-based threats, surveillance, imaging and maneuver. Key attributes of Army RF sensors are the ability to operate in harsh environments and constraints on size, weight and power consumption. Topics of interest include: Air defense radar, Airborne radar, Ground surveillance radar, Multi-static radar v. Signal processing, Spectrum awareness, Waveform design, Multi-function radar, Synthetic aperture radar, Passive imaging. | November 19, 2027
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DOD | Advanced Learning-Enabled Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems | Intelligent cyber physical systems play an increasingly important role in civilian and military settings. With few exceptions, current intelligent systems are restricted to highly constrained environments for short duration missions. Future systems will need to perform a variety of tasks in complex, possibly contested, open worlds for extended periods of time. One important characteristic of open worlds is that the intelligent system will encounter new contexts, activities, and objects that will require it to adapt previously trained algorithms. Advanced capabilities in learning, reasoning, interaction, and assured operations are essential to the development of intelligent systems that can greatly enhance the Army’s mobility, agility, lethality, and survivability in future conflicts. | November 19, 2027
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DOD | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Extremely Sparse Data | The Army has limited data to train or adapt AI&ML systems to dynamic and diverse operating environments. ARL seeks research to enable Army platforms, intelligence systems and command systems to learn, infer and provide meaningful predictions in circumstances characterized by extreme epistemic uncertainty. We expect that combinations of data-driven learning and domain-expert-elicited rules will ease the need for data, and that uncertainty-aware processing that considers both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty over neuro-symbolic architectures will enlighten the limits of inference due to data-driven learning. Potential research goals include: 1) theories for optimal learning and inference when supervised training data is limited, 2) computationally efficient approximations to optimal processing, 3) determination of state transitions when and when not more traditional AI&ML models are sufficient in light of task difficulty and availability of data, 4) techniques for efficient processing on edge computing devices, and 5) methods for distributed learning and inference that leverage graphical neural networks. | November 19, 2027
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DOE | Spurring Projects to Advance Energy Research and Knowledge Swiftly (SPARKS) | This program provides a continuing opportunity for the rapid support of early-stage applied research to explore innovative new concepts with the potential for transformational and disruptive changes in energy technology. SPARKS awards are intended to be flexible and may take the form of analyses or exploratory research that provides the agency with useful information for the subsequent development of focused technology programs. SPARKS awards may also support proof-of-concept research to develop a unique technology concept, either in an area not currently supported by the agency or as a potential enhancement to an ongoing focused technology program.
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NSF | NSF's CBET recently announced renewal RFPs for a cluster of programs that cover related topics: Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics; Cellular and Biochemical Engineering; Engineering of Biomedical Systems; and Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering. | Proposals are accepted at any time for all programs
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NSF | The Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN) Program 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. EPCN also invests in novel machine learning algorithms and analysis, adaptive dynamic programming, brain-like networked architectures performing real-time learning, and neuromorphic engineering. EPCN’s goal is to encourage research on emerging technologies and applications including energy, transportation, robotics, and biomedical devices & systems. EPCN also emphasizes electric power systems, including generation, transmission, storage, and integration of renewable energy sources into the grid; power electronics and drives; battery management systems; hybrid and electric vehicles; and understanding of the interplay of power systems with associated regulatory & economic structures and with consumer behavior. | Proposals accepted anytime
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NSF | This program supports fundamental research addressing the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies present for the next industrial revolution, with particular emphasis on the digital integration of design and manufacturing within the larger life cycle ecosystem. Manufacturing Systems Integration proposals should address underlying principles and advances that are generalizable for globally competitive and world leading industries. Connectivity, automation, and secure collaboration are examples of areas that are integral to digital environments capable of supporting the innovation, realization and sustainment of manufactured products and systems in the value creation process.
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NSF | Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR:TMRP) | Materials Research is the field of science where physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering naturally converge in the pursuit of the fundamental understanding of the properties of materials and the phenomena they host. Materials are abundant and pervasive, serving as critical building blocks in technology and innovation. Materials Research impacts life and society, as it shapes our understanding of the material world and enables significant advances spanning the range from nanoelectronics to health-related fields. The development and deployment of advanced materials are major drivers of U.S. economic growth. 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. This solicitation applies to seven DMR Topical Materials Research Programs (TMRPs): Biomaterials (BMAT), Ceramics (CER), Condensed Matter Physics (CMP), Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM), Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN), Polymers (POL), and Solid State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC). | Proposals accepted anytime |
NSF | NSF seeks to strengthen the future U.S. Engineering workforce by enabling the participation of all citizens through the support of research in the science of Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE). The BPE program is dedicated to supporting the development of a diverse and well-prepared engineering workforce. BPE focuses on enhancing the diversity and inclusion of all underrepresented populations in engineering, including gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity (African Americans/Blacks, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders), disability, LGBTQ+, first generation college and socio-economic status. BPE research activities will provide scientific evidence that engineering educators, employers, and policy makers need to make informed decisions to design effective programs that broaden the participation of persons from historically underrepresented groups in the engineering workforce. BPE is interested in funding research that spans K-12 to workforce and offers the greatest return on investment. | No Deadline | |
NSF | This program supports fundamental research that explores embodied reasoning as mediated by bidirectional sensorimotor interaction between human and synthetic actors. The M3X Program seeks to spur innovative and path-breaking work that can improve understanding of interaction between human and synthetic actors in a broad range of settings, while also exploring implications for the advancement of fundamental theory, foundational technologies, and meaningful applications. | Proposals accepted any time
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NSF | In today's increasingly networked, distributed, and asynchronous world, cybersecurity involves hardware, software, networks, data, people, and integration with the physical world. Society's overwhelming reliance on this complex cyberspace, however, has exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities that defy existing cyber-defense measures; corporations, agencies, national infrastructure, and individuals continue to suffer cyber-attacks. Achieving a truly secure cyberspace requires addressing both challenging scientific and engineering problems involving many components of a system, and vulnerabilities that stem from human behaviors and choices. Examining the fundamentals of security and privacy as a multidisciplinary subject can lead to fundamentally new ways to design, build, and operate cyber systems; protect existing infrastructure; and motivate and educate individuals about cybersecurity.
The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, drawing on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication, and information sciences; engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are both welcome. | Proposals Accepted Anytime
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NSF | Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research | The Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER) 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. | Proposals Accepted anytime |
NSF | The Environmental Sustainability program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster together with 1) the Environmental Engineering program and 2) the Nanoscale Interactions program. The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. Research efforts supported by the program typically consider long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. The program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society's need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. There are four principal general research areas that are supported:
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NSF | The focus of the Robotics program is on foundational advances in robotics. | Proposals Accepted Anytime | |
NSF | The Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research (Sustaining) Program supports the continued operation of existing research infrastructure that advances contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)at NSF. The Sustaining Program focuses primarily on sustaining critical research infrastructure that is cyberinfrastructure or biological living stocks and that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers. Projects are expected to ensure continued availability of existing, mature resources that will enable important science outcomes achieved by users representing a broad range of research supported by BIO and its collaborating organizations. | Proposals Accepted Anytime | |
NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects | The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) 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:
| Proposals Accepted Anytime |
NSF | Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI)
| The Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) program supports fundamental research in geotechnical, structural, materials, architectural, and coastal engineering. The ECI program promotes research that can shape the future of the nation’s physical civil infrastructure and that can contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation, and hazards and disaster resilience.
Proposers are actively encouraged to email a one-page project summary to the ECI Program Officers before submitting a full proposal for guidance on whether the proposed research topic falls within the scope of the ECI program; this guidance especially should be requested for multi-disciplinary research proposals, proposals for which research and/or development on the subject civil infrastructure(s) are also supported by other federal and state agencies, and proposals that consider civil infrastructure not listed above. | Proposals accepted anytime |
NSF | Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences | The CDS&E-MSS program accepts proposals that engage with the mathematical and statistical challenges presented by (1) the ever-expanding role of computational experimentation, modeling, and simulation on the one hand, and (2) the explosion in production and analysis of digital data from experimental and observational sources on the other. The goal of the program is to promote the creation and development of the next generation of mathematical and statistical software tools, and the theory underpinning those tools, that will be essential for addressing these challenges.
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NSF | The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in areas of applied and computational mathematics with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology. | Proposals Accepted Anytime
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NSF | Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs | The NSF CISE Directorate 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 the following core programs: Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF):
Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS):
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS):
Small Projects -- up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years: projects in this class may be submitted to CCF, CNS, and IIS; | SMALL project proposals accepted any time |
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DOJ | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details
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DOJ | Various programs, check the link for details | Various deadlines, check the link for details
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NSF | CIVIC is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. CIVIC funds projects that pilot state-of-the-art solutions to community challenges over 12 months, following a six-month planning phase, and have the potential for lasting impact in the partnering community as well as the potential to be scaled and implemented in other communities. Additionally, the foundation for CIVIC projects should be rooted in maturing and transitioning state-of-the-art research in disciplines, including but not limited to computer science, engineering, geosciences, biological sciences, and social sciences.
| May 1, 2024
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NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education | This program aims to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the NSF focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers.
| May 30, 2024
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NSF | This program aims to provide all U.S. students with the opportunity to participate in computer science and computational thinking education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. With this solicitation, the NSF focuses on both research and research-practice partnerships that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools.
While CS4A will require K-12 partnerships with IHE applicants, it should be noted that virtually all grantees are IHEs. | June 04, 2024
February 12, 2025 Second Wednesday in February, Annually Thereafter
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NIH | The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional) | The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative population-based research that can contribute to identifying and characterizing pathways and mechanisms through which work or occupation influences health outcomes and health status among populations with health and/or health care disparities, and how work functions as a social determinant of health. The main objective of this initiative is to determine the extent and mechanisms by which work as a SDOH both contributes to, and helps ameliorate, health and health care disparities. A recent workshop on September 28-29, 2020 organized by NIMHD highlighted key ideas for furthering research on work as a SDOH that include conceptualizing work as a social class marker, as a source of “exposures and risk factors,” and as a source of beneficial social and economic resources such as income and wealth, neighborhood conditions, health care access, education, and social networks. Some key questions include: What are the specific and modifiable mechanisms by which work explains health disparities? To what extent does work as a social class marker, source of “exposures and risk factors” and/or source of beneficial social and economic resources explain health disparities? Which health disparities does work as a SDOH explain? Of particular interest are projects designed to examine pathways and mechanisms using conceptual model(s) grounded in minority health and health disparities theories that recognize that health disparities arise by multiple and overlapping contributing factors acting at multiple levels of influence (See the NIMHD Research Framework). Studies must examine NIH-designated U.S. health disparity populations, e.g. racial and ethnic minority populations, sexual and gender minority groups, underserved rural populations, and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations of any race or ethnicity. | June 5, 2024
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NIH | This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) invites research projects that seek to explain the underlying mechanisms, processes, and trajectories of social relationships and how these factors affect outcomes in health, illness, recovery, and overall wellbeing.
Research areas of interest include understanding differences and similarities between objective social isolation and loneliness, how complex biopsychosocial processes are regulated in the body, what occurs in response to dysregulation, and antecedent processes that influence responses to the trajectories of social relationships. Studies that involve neurobiological approaches—for example, how social or isolated settings influence neurobiological systems, brain function, and/or behavior are welcome. Projects designed to study how changes in the quantity and/or quality of social connections influence health behaviors and outcomes are encouraged. This FOA also encourages projects that incorporate aims to promote methods and measures needed to support a cumulative and integrated approach to the study of social connectedness and isolation. | June 21, 2024
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NSF | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources | This is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations. NSF places high value on educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate public.
| July 17, 2024 Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter (Level 2 and 3 proposals)
January 15, 2025
Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter (Level 1 proposals) |
NIH | NIAID Research Education Program (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on:
| July 25, 2024
Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to submission date
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NSF | Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science | RETS with a focus on Biological Sciences (BIORETS) will include research projects in fields that are supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences. BIORETS may be based in a single discipline or department or may offer interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. An important goal of the program is to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in biological research and those from geographically underrepresented areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Proposals are strongly encouraged to involve members of these groups both as participants and as mentors. BIORETS awards are expected to leverage the teachers’ research experiences for curriculum development, with the goal of enriching their classroom teaching practices and inspiring a broad swath of students to consider higher education and careers in STEM. | July 31 2024
July 31, Annually Thereafter
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DOD | FY24 Department of Navy STEM Education and Workforce Program | As the capacity of the DON Science and Technology workforce is interconnected with the STEM education system, DON recognizes the need to support efforts that can jointly improve STEM student outcomes and align educational and outreach efforts with Naval S&T current and future workforce needs. This announcement explicitly encourages programs that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students of all ages and the naval related workforce. Programs must aim to increase engagement in naval relevant STEM, and enhance the corresponding skills, knowledge, and abilities of participants. ONR encourages applicants to utilize current STEM educational research for informing program design and advancing STEM careers and opportunities of naval relevance. | August 30, 2024 |
NSF | This program aims to catalyze research and development that enhances all preK-12 teachers’ and students’ opportunities to engage in high-quality learning experiences related to STEM. The program’s objectives are to: (1) build knowledge about how to develop preK-12 students’ and teachers’ STEM content knowledge, practices, and skills; (2) support collaborative partnerships among STEM education researchers, STEM education practitioners and school leaders with the goals of extending relevant scientific literatures while developing more effective practice; and (3) build the field of STEM education by supporting knowledge synthesis, interdisciplinary interactions across fields and stakeholders. | November 13, 2024
Second Wednesday in November, Annually Thereafter
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EPA | Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program | This program funds community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. This historic level of support will enable communities and their partners to overcome longstanding environmental challenges and implement meaningful solutions to meet community needs now and for generations to come. Track I will fund approximately 150 large, transformational community-driven investment grants of $10 million to $20 million; Track II will fund approximately 20 meaningful engagement grants of $1 million to $3 million.
IHEs are eligible to apply in partnership. | Proposals accepted at time through November 21, 2024
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NSF | This program is committed to funding research and practice, with continued focus on investigating a range of informal STEM learning experiences and environments that make lifelong learning a reality. The current solicitation encourages proposals from institutions and organizations that serve public audiences, and specifically focus on public engagement with and understanding of STEM, including community STEM; public participation in scientific research; science communication; intergenerational STEM engagement; and STEM media.
| January 08, 2025
Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research. MCA support is expected to help lift these constraints to reduce workload inequities and enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and individuals from groups that have been underrepresented) at high academic ranks. | February 01 - March 01, 2025
February 1 - March 1, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | This program supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences; this social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues and have strong broader impacts.
| August 18, 2024
August 18 & January 18, Annually Thereafter
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NSF | The Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part. This program also strengthens both empirical and theoretical economic analysis as well as the methods for rigorous research on economic behavior. It 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. | August 19, 2024
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NSF | Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the well-being of nations and their citizens. They are of crucial importance for producing goods and services, creating value, providing jobs, and achieving social goals. The Science of Organizations (SoO) program funds basic research that yields a scientific evidence base for improving the design and emergence, development and deployment, and management and ultimate effectiveness of organizations of all kinds. SoO funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form and operate. Successful SoO research proposals use scientific methods to develop and refine theories, to empirically test theories and frameworks, and to develop new measures and methods. Funded research is aimed at yielding generalizable insights that are of value to the business practitioner, policy-maker and research communities. SoO welcomes any and all rigorous, scientific approaches that illuminate aspects of organizations as systems of coordination, management and governance. | September 3, 2024
February 2 and September 3, annually | |
NSF | The Environmental Sustainability program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster together with 1) the Environmental Engineering program and 2) the Nanoscale Interactions program. The goal of the Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. Research efforts supported by the program typically consider long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. The program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society's need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. There are four principal general research areas that are supported:
| Proposals Accepted anytime |
Hanover Research Grants Calendars
Please find yearly grant calendars organized by subject area provided by Hanover Research below. Click on the image for a full size view and list view of the funding opportunities. The full documents also include hyperlink to the funder's website and/or solicitation if you click on the Program name.
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Grants Calendar
Early Career Research Grants Calendar
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Research Grants Calendar
STEM Research Grants Calendar
Student Success Research Grants Calendar
Environmental Sustainability Research Grants Calendar
Education Research Grants Calendar
