Announcements from the Office of Research

Funding Entity

Program Title & Links

Description

Deadline

DoD

Transforming Healthcare through Innovative and Impactful Research

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details
 

DOJ

Office of Justice Programs Current Funding Opportunities

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details

DOJ

Office on Violence Against Women Open Solicitations

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details

DOJ

Office on Community Oriented Policing Services Grants

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details

NASA

Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2023 

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

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 26, 2023

Fourth Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Law & Science (LS)

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:

• Crime, Violence, and Policing
• Cyberspace
• Economic Issues
• Environmental Science
• Evidentiary Issues
• Forensic Science
• Governance and Courts
• Human Rights and Comparative Law
• Information Technology
• Legal and Ethical Issues related to Science
• Legal Decision Making
• Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
• Litigation and the Legal Profession
• Punishment and Corrections
• Regulation and Facilitation of Biotechnology (e.g., Gene Editing, Gene Testing, Synthetic Biology) and Other Emerging Sciences and Technologies
• Use of Science in the Legal Processes

August 01, 2023

January 15 Annually Thereafter

August 1, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Sociology

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, 2023
 

January 15, Annually Thereafter

August 01, Annually Thereafter

NEA

Our Town

Our Town is the NEA’s creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, the program supports activities that integrate arts, culture, and design into local efforts that strengthen communities over the long term. Our Town projects engage a wide range of local stakeholders in efforts to advance local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes in communities. Competitive projects are responsive to unique local conditions, authentically engage communities, center equity, advance artful lives, and lay the groundwork for long-term systems change. 

August 3, 2023
 

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, 2023

February 2, Annually Thereafter

August 3, Annually Thereafter

NEH

Public Humanities Projects

This program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.

August 9, 2023

NSF

Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)

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 15, 2023

Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter

Third Tuesday in August, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences 

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, 2023

January 18, 2024

August 18 & January 18, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Economics

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.

The Economics program welcomes proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, symposia, experimental research, data collection and dissemination, computer equipment and other instrumentation, and research experience for undergraduates. The program places a high priority on interdisciplinary research. Investigators are encouraged to submit proposals of joint interest to the Economics Program and other NSF programs and NSF initiative areas. The program places a high priority on broadening participation and encourages proposals from junior faculty, women, other underrepresented minorities, Research Undergraduate Institutions, and EPSCoR states.

The program also funds conferences and interdisciplinary research that strengthens links among economics and the other social and behavioral sciences as well as mathematics and statistics.

August 18, 2023
 

January 18, Annually Thereafter
 

August 18, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Science of Organizations (SoO)

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, 2023 

February 2 Annually Thereafter
 

September 3, Annually Thereafter

NEH

Humanities Connections

This program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. Awards support the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields; or other non-humanities departments or schools. Projects must incorporate the approaches and learning activities of both the humanities and the non-humanities disciplines involved.    

September 7, 2023

DOI

Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment

The purpose of Service PLC Programs is to provide work and education opportunities for youth (defined as ages 16-30 inclusive, and up to age 35 for veterans) participants in the areas of natural and cultural resource conservation, development, and scientific research.  Participants   perform work on our nation’s public lands by providing additional, unique capacity designed to boost the impact of the Service for the conservation and management of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the American people.

September 10, 2023

ICRG

ICRG 2023 Grant: IMPACT OF GAMBLING ADVERTISING

The ICRG invites investigators to apply for a two-year Large Grant to study the impact of gambling advertising, including  television, digital and push notifications. The goal of this initiative is to determine the aspects of advertising that might promote risky or problematic gambling attitudes and behaviors and provide metrics for the development of advertising guidelines for gambling operators and regulators. Applicants may request up to $172,500.

September 15, 2023

NSF

Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET)

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, 2023
 

September 17, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Due:

January 31, 2024
 

January 31, Annually Thereafter

DOD DARPA

Information Innovation Office BAA

This program seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. I2O’s goal is to ensure enduring advantage for the United States and its allies across a broad range of information technologies through the advancement of core technical foundations and the design of novel application concepts based on these foundations. I2O’s core technical work ranges from artificial intelligence and data analysis to secure engineering and formal methods.

Abstract Due: September 22, 2023

Proposal Due:
October 27, 2023

 

NSF

Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)

The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and that draw 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.

The SaTC program spans the interests of NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR). Proposals must be submitted pursuant to one of the following designations, each of which may have additional restrictions and administrative obligations:

• CORE: This designation is the main focus of the SaTC research program.
• EDU: The Education (EDU) designation is used to label proposals focusing entirely on cybersecurity and privacy education and training.
• TTP: The Transition to Practice (TTP) designation is used to label proposals that are focused exclusively on transitioning existing research results to practice.

Core and TTP proposals may be submitted in either of the following project size classes:

• Small projects: up to $600,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years; and
• Medium projects: $600,001 to $1,200,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years.

EDU proposals are limited to $400,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years. EDU proposals that demonstrate a collaboration, reflected in the PI, co-PI, and/or Senior Personnel composition, between a cybersecurity subject matter expert (researcher or practitioner) and an education researcher may request up to $500,000 for three years.

September 29, 2023

DoE Office of Science

FY2023 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science

The Office of Science hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following 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. There is also an early career track.

September 30, 2023

NIH

Computationally-Defined Behaviors in Psychiatry (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications for research projects that will apply computational approaches to develop parametrically detailed behavioral assays across mental-health relevant domains of function. These projects should focus on behavior in humans and test computational models in healthy, trans-diagnostic, unselected, or community samples. NIMH is particularly interested in the study of behavioral measures, models, and parameters that have the potential for back-translation from humans to animals, especially for pre-clinical therapeutics development, and in models that have the potential to be extended to clinical populations. To maximize prospects of back-translation and to provide a neurobiological foundation for future research, studies will need to consider behavioral models and parameters that are linked to the underlying neural processes that may be involved in their computation. Finally, in order to ensure ecological validity of behavioral assays, models derived from lab-based behavioral tasks will need to be tested for generalizability to behavioral data collected in a real-world setting.

Letter of Intent Due:
 

October 1, 2023
 

Proposal Due:
 

November 1, 2023

NIH

NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

This program supports biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness. The scope of NLM's interest in these research domains is broad, with emphasis on new and innovative methods and approaches to foster data driven discovery in the biomedical and clinical health sciences as well as domain-independent, scalable, and reusable approaches to discovery, curation, analysis, organization, and management of health-related digital objects.

October 05, 2023

More deadlines on solicitation

NIH

Research With Activities Related to Diversity (R01) 

This program aims to enhance the breadth and geographical location of research and research-related activities supported by NIH. The program provides support for the health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and who have no current NIH research project grant funding.

October 05, 2023

February 05, 2024

Additional deadlines on full solicitation

NEH

Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education
(Anticipated)

The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations through the teaching and study of the humanities. Eligible applicants include small- to medium-size two- and four-year institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations whose work advances the humanities at these institutions and among their faculty and students.

The Spotlight program supports activities such as curricular or program development, expert consultations, speakers’ series, student research, creation of teaching resources, and community engagement. Projects may benefit students, faculty, the institution or organization, and/or the community.

October 11, 2023 

(Anticipated)

NEH

Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology.

Technology has had an enormous impact on modern society, affecting how we work, communicate, learn, engage in the political process, and live. The relationship between technology and culture continues to have dramatic impacts, both positive and negative, on our health, the environment, our social interactions, our government, cultural and educational institutions, the arts, and nearly all other aspects of life.

The program supports projects led by individual researchers (up to $75K) and by collaborative teams (up to $150K).

October 11, 2023 

(Anticipated)

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 (https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding) 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.

October 16, 2023

February 16, 2024

Additional Dates

NSF

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)

The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program (MRI Program Website) serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.

MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.

October 16 2023 - November 15, 2023

NIH

NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research (R03)

This program supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.

October 17, 2023

Additional Dates on Solicitation

NIH

NIDCD Early Career Research(ECR) Award (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

The NIDCD Early Career Research (ECR) Award is different from other NIH R21 programs. It is restricted to clinical and basic scientists who are transitioning to, or are already in the early stages of, their independent research career. The research should be focused on one or more of the areas within the biomedical and behavioral scientific mission of the NIDCD, specifically: hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, or language. The expected outcome from projects funded under this mechanism is the acquisition of necessary preliminary data for a subsequent research project grant (R01) application

The proposed project may or may not be hypothesis-driven since the goal is to collect the necessary preliminary data sufficient to apply for an R01 grant. The project may aid in the formulation of hypotheses and may be milestone-driven or descriptive in scope. Given that the goal is to collect preliminary data, R21 projects may be less immediately impactful or significant compared to the typical R01. It is not an expectation that this R21 project will likely "move the field forward" at this stage.

Preliminary data are not required. However, the project should be supported by sufficient information to give confidence to the reviewers that the proposed work is feasible and that data derived from the project would likely be suitable as preliminary data for a subsequent R01 application. If preliminary data are available, it is recommended that these be included.

October 26, 2023

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.

November 01, 2023

July 01, 2024

November 01, 2024

NSF

Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science

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:

• Macrosystems Research Awards (MRA). Awards to advance Macrosystems Biology research broadly, including substantively NEON-enabled research, and innovative training to conduct this research. These awards may be up to 5 years in duration.
• Macrosystems Small Awards (MSA). Awards employing targeted approaches to advance understanding of regional to continental-scale processes, addressing a theoretical challenge such as scaling or teleconnections, or for the development or advancement of novel approaches to processing, use and/or analysis of NEON data or collections within the context of Macrosystems Biology research questions. Proposals from early career investigators remain a priority. These awards will be limited to $300,000 and up to 3 years in duration.

November 13, 2023
 

Second Monday in November, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants 

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, 2023 

November 15 annually

NSF

Archaeology 

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.

December 1, 2023

July 1, 2024

July 1 and December 1, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)

The BRC-BIO program is intended to support new faculty who are within the first 3 years of an appointment by enabling them to initiate sustainable research programs at this critical early career stage. The program targets institutions and their faculty that are currently poorly represented among the institutions submitting proposals to and receiving awards from BIO. This includes Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs) that are not among the nation's most research-intensive institutions, and other institutions that are classified as R2, D/PU, or M1-3 (see Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/). This opportunity is intended to help establish sustainable research programs for new faculty and position them to submit subsequent competitive proposals to the BIO Core program solicitations and the CAREER funding mechanism. BIO also recognizes that these institutions are often under-resourced and thus require different budgetary support than research intensive institutions. BRC-BIO is designed to support research projects that:

• Build capacity and enhance research participation in the biological sciences across the wide diversity of institutions;
• Provide new faculty with the means to establish research programs in the context of their faculty appointments that can be sustained with future funding from the NSF;
• Promote active research in the educational experiences of undergraduates nationwide; and
• Contribute to a stronger, more innovative STEM workforce by diversifying research experiences and engaging diverse communities.

December 01, 2023 - December 29, 2023

NSF

Advancing Informal STEM Learning

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 10, 2024

Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Social Psychology

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.

January 15, 2024

July 15, 2024

January 15 & July 15, annually thereafter

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 16, 2024
 

Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter

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.

January 17 2024
Level 1 proposals

Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

(Level 1 proposals)

Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter (Level 2 and 3 proposals)

NSF

Biological Anthropology 

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.

January 20 - January 31, 2024, Annually Thereafter

July 20 - July 30, 2024

January 20 - 31 and July 20 - July 30, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Mid-Career Advancement

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, 2024

February 1 - March 1, Annually Thereafter

DOD

Office of Naval Research STEM Program

This RFP supports STEM education programs and activities that: develop learners’ knowledge, skill, or interest in STEM; attract students to pursue certifications, licenses, or degrees (two-year degrees through post-doctoral degrees) or careers in STEM fields; provide growth and research opportunities for post-secondary, college and graduate students in STEM fields, such as working with researchers or conducting research that is primarily intended to further education; improve mentor/educator (K-12 pre-service or in-service, post-secondary, and informal) quality in STEM areas; and improve or expand the capacity of institutions to promote or foster STEM fields.

April 02, 2024

NIH

Research on Biopsychosocial Factors of Social Connectedness and Isolation on Health, Wellbeing, Illness, and Recovery (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

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

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:

• Courses for Skills Development  
• Research Experiences     
• Mentoring Activities

July 25, 2024

NSF

Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) 

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

NSF

Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)

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

NSF

Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster

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.

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.

Proposals Accepted Anytime

NSF

Mathematical Biology

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

Funding Entity

Program Title & Links

Description

Deadline

DoD

Transforming Healthcare through Innovative and Impactful Research

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details
 

NASA

Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2023 

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

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 26, 2023

Fourth Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

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, 2023 

August 3, Annually Thereafter

February 2, 2024

February 2, Annually Thereafter

DOD

Air Force Fiscal Year 2024 Young Investigator Program

This program aims to support early-in-career scientists and engineers showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.

August 14, 2023

NSF

Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS)

The Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program solicits foundational research aimed towards a deeper understanding and formalization of the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex social and legal contexts within which software systems must be designed and operate. The DASS program aims to bring researchers in computer and information science and engineering together with researchers in law and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems. DASS will support well-conceived collaborations between these two groups of researchers. The first group consists of researchers in software design, which, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined as formal methods, programming languages, software engineering, requirements engineering, and human-centered computing. The second group consists of researchers in law and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, who study social systems and networks, culture, social norms and beliefs, rules, canons, precedents, legal code, and routine procedures that govern the conduct of people, organizations, and countries.

Proposals for this program must create general advances in both (1) understanding the social, behavioral, economic and/or legal context of accountable software design; and (2) improving the methodology for designing accountable software beyond specific use cases. Each proposal must have at least one Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI with expertise in software design and at least one PI or co-PI with expertise in law or a social, behavioral, or economic science. All proposals must contain a detailed collaboration plan that leverages the complementary expertise of the PIs/co-PIs in the designated areas and describes the mechanisms for continuous bi-directional collaboration. Projects are limited to $750,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years.

September 3, 2023
 

February 2, 2024

February 2, Annually Thereafter
 

September 3, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Science of Organizations (SoO)

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, 2023
 

September 3, Annually Thereafter

February 2, 2024

February 2, Annually Thereafter

NEH

Humanities Connections

This program seeks to expand the role of the humanities in undergraduate education at two- and four-year institutions by encouraging partnerships between humanities faculty and their counterparts in other areas of study. Awards support the planning or implementation of curricular projects connecting the humanities to the physical and natural sciences; pre-service or professional programs, including law and business; computer science, data science, and other technology-driven fields; or other non-humanities departments or schools. Projects must incorporate the approaches and learning activities of both the humanities and the non-humanities disciplines involved.    

September 7, 2023

NSF

Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET)

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), in their report "Environmental Engineering for the 21^st 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, 2023

September 17 Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Due:
 

January 31, 2024

January 31, 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 20, 2023

Third Wednesday in September, Annually Thereafter

DOD DARPA

Information Innovation Office BAA

This program seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing I2O programs or other published solicitations. I2O’s goal is to ensure enduring advantage for the United States and its allies across a broad range of information technologies through the advancement of core technical foundations and the design of novel application concepts based on these foundations. I2O’s core technical work ranges from artificial intelligence and data analysis to secure engineering and formal methods.

Abstract Due: September 22, 2023

Proposal Due:
October 27, 2023
 

NSF

Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering

This solicitation seeks proposals that enable experienced researchers with active research programs to take risks not typically associated with proposals submitted to core programs by pivoting to research areas where they have no proven track record, gaining knowledge from a different discipline and using it to forge new directions in their research field, or exploring divergent, bold, and ambitious research ideas where the expected scientific outcomes are highly uncertain and the potential to transform a field is significant, or experienced researchers with a hiatus in research activity to reestablish a foundation for sustained research productivity and broader impacts [4-10]. It is grounded in the expectation that leveraging prior science and engineering outcomes, harnessing talent from the broad scientific research community, enabling time for reflection and deliberation, including by learning new skills and through immersion in new areas, and supporting intellectual risk taking will lead to scientific and technological innovation.

September 28, 2023

NSF

Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)

The SaTC program welcomes proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and that draw 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.

The SaTC program spans the interests of NSF's Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), and Education and Human Resources (EHR). Proposals must be submitted pursuant to one of the following designations, each of which may have additional restrictions and administrative obligations:

• CORE: This designation is the main focus of the SaTC research program.
• EDU: The Education (EDU) designation is used to label proposals focusing entirely on cybersecurity and privacy education and training.
• TTP: The Transition to Practice (TTP) designation is used to label proposals that are focused exclusively on transitioning existing research results to practice.

Core and TTP proposals may be submitted in either of the following project size classes:

• Small projects: up to $600,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years; and
• Medium projects: $600,001 to $1,200,000 in total budget, with durations of up to four years.

EDU proposals are limited to $400,000 in total budget, with durations of up to three years. EDU proposals that demonstrate a collaboration, reflected in the PI, co-PI, and/or Senior Personnel composition, between a cybersecurity subject matter expert (researcher or practitioner) and an education researcher may request up to $500,000 for three years.

September 29, 2023

DoD

CCDC-ARL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOA

The topics in section I.A are intended to help execute manufacturing technology (ManTech) programs to address the highest priority needs of the US Army. The goal of these programs is to demonstrate and ultimately transition improved and cost-effective manufacturing solutions for Army platforms and Warfighter systems.

September 30, 2023

DoE Office of Science

FY2023 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science

The Office of Science hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following 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. There is also an early career track.

September 30, 2023

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 a variety of core programs.

September 30, 2023
 

Small Projects

NSF

Advanced Technological Education (ATE)

With a focus on two-year Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. The program involves partnerships between academic institutions (grades 7-12, IHEs), industry, and economic development agencies to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary institution school levels. The ATE program supports curriculum development; professional development of college faculty and secondary school teachers; career pathways; and other activities. The program invites applied research proposals that advance the knowledge base related to technician education. It is required that projects be faculty driven and that courses and programs are credit bearing, although materials developed may also be used for incumbent worker education.

The ATE program encourages partnerships with other entities that may impact technician education. For example, with

• the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEPs) (http://www.nist.gov/mep/index.cfm) as applicable to support technician education programs and the industries they serve;
• Manufacturing USA Institutes (https://manufacturing.gov/) addressing workforce development issues (also see DCL NSF 16-007); and
• NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) awardees (https://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/iucrc/) (also see DCL NSF 21-076).

October 05, 2023

NSF

Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)

The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program (MRI Program Website) serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions. MRI instruments are, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.

MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders.

October 16 2023 - November 15, 2023

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 (https://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding) 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.

October 16, 2023

February 16, 2024

Additional Dates

NIH

Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for advanced development and enhancement of emerging informatics technologies for cancer research. As a component of the NCI's Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Program, this FOA focuses on emerging informatics technology, defined as one that has passed the initial prototyping and pilot development stage, has demonstrated potential to have a significant and broader impact, has compelling reasons for further improvement and enhancement, and has not been widely adopted in the cancer research field. To be successful, proposed development plans must have a clear rationale on why the proposed technology is needed and how it will benefit the cancer research field. In addition, mechanisms to solicit feedback from users and collaborators throughout the development process must be included.

November 17, 2023

DOE

Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office Multi-Topic FOA 

This program aims to advance the strategies identified in the Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap and Industrial Heat Energy Earthshot and will focus on cross-sector approaches for industrial decarbonization (such as thermal processing, low-carbon fuels utilization, and exploratory cross-sector topics), along with high-GHG-emitting subsectors (such as chemicals, iron and steel, food and beverage, cement and concrete, and forest products). 

December 1, 2023

NSF

Advancing Informal STEM Learning

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 10, 2024

Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

NSF

Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

This program supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network: an interconnected network of knowledge graphs supporting a very broad range of application domains. Open access to shared information is essential for the development and evolution of artificial intelligence and AI-powered solutions needed to address the complex challenges facing the nation and the world. Knowledge graphs, which represent relationships among real-world entities, provide a powerful approach for organizing, representing, integrating, reusing, and accessing data from multiple structured and unstructured sources using ontologies and ontology alignment. 

January 16, 2024

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 16, 2024

Third Tuesday in January, Annually Thereafter

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.

January 17 2024
Level 1 proposals

Third Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

(Level 1 proposals)

Third Wednesday in July, Annually Thereafter (Level 2 and 3 proposals)

NSF

Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS)

A key focus of the design of modern computing systems is performance and scalability, particularly in light of the limits of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling. To this end, systems are increasingly being implemented by composing heterogeneous computing components and continually changing memory systems as novel, performant hardware surfaces. Applications fueled by rapid strides in machine learning, data analysis, and extreme-scale simulation are becoming more domain-specific and highly distributed. In this scenario, traditional boundaries between hardware-oriented and software-oriented disciplines are increasingly blurred.

Achieving scalability of systems and applications will therefore require coordinated progress in multiple disciplines such as computer architecture, high-performance computing (HPC), machine programming, programming languages and compilers, security and privacy, systems, and theory and algorithms. Cross-cutting concerns such as performance, correctness and accuracy, and heterogeneity must be taken into account from the outset in all aspects of systems and application design and implementation.

The aim of the Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS) program is to support a community of researchers who will work symbiotically across the multiple disciplines above to perform basic research on scalability and correctness and accuracy of modern applications, systems, and toolchains built on heterogeneous architectures. The intent is that these efforts will foster the development of principles that lead to rigorous and reproducible artifacts for the design and implementation of large-scale systems and applications spanning the full hardware/software stack. Importantly, as described below, PPoSS specifically seeks to fund projects that span the entire hardware/software stack and that lay the foundations for sustainable approaches for implementing performant, scalable, and correct and accurate computing applications that run on heterogeneous platforms.

January 22, 2024

Fourth Monday in January, Annually Thereafter

LARGE grants only

NIH

Technology Development to Reduce Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

The primary objective of this funding opportunity is to encourage the development and translation of medical technologies, new or existing, that can have a significant impact on healthcare access and health outcomes for populations that experience health disparities. Several barriers to access and adopt such technologies have been identified and are described below. Applications submitted to this funding opportunity should address one or more of these barriers in developing technologies that will impact health disparities. Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Physical Barriers—factors such as proximity to healthcare facilities and transportation may limit access to healthcare
• Knowledge Barriers—health literacy and language barriers can inhibit healthcare delivery, as well as a lack of patient information for the healthcare provider
• Infrastructure Barriers—rural hospitals and community health centers may not have the same resources and expertise of large hospitals, and may not be able to afford advanced medical technologies
• Economic Barriers—lack of internet access, insurance coverage or financial resources may also contribute to disparities in healthcare access
• Cultural Barriers—religious beliefs and social customs often deter certain populations from seeking healthcare

Appropriate medical technologies should be effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and deliverable to those who need them. A non-inclusive list of appropriate medical technologies that might achieve the objectives of this initiative may be found below:

• Telehealth and telemedicine technologies for remote diagnosis and monitoring
• Sensors for point-of-care diagnosis
• Devices for in-home monitoring
• Mobile, portable diagnostic and therapeutic systems
• Devices which integrate diagnosis and treatment
• Diagnostics or treatments that do not require special training
• Devices that can operate in low-resource environments
• Non-invasive technologies for diagnosis and treatment
• Integrated, automated system to assess or monitor a specific condition
• Robotic devices for performing specialized skills or enhancing usability
• Low-cost biomaterial interfaces to increase medical device and component affordability

January 26, 2024

NSF

Computer Science for All

This program aims to provide all U.S. students with the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. This program focuses on both research and researcher-practitioner partnerships that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. Specifically, this solicitation aims to provide high school teachers with the preparation, professional development and ongoing support they need to teach rigorous computer science courses.

February 14, 2024

Second Wednesday in February, annually
 

NSF

Smart and Connected Communities

The S&CC program encourages researchers to work with community stakeholders to identify and define challenges they are facing, enabling those challenges to motivate use-inspired research questions. For this solicitation, community stakeholders may include some or all of the following: residents, neighborhood or community groups, nonprofit or philanthropic organizations, businesses, as well as municipal organizations such as libraries, museums, educational institutions, public works departments, and health and social services agencies. The S&CC program supports integrative research that addresses fundamental technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities. Importantly, the program is interested in projects that consider the sustainability of the research outcomes beyond the life of the project, including the scalability and transferability of the proposed solutions.

Proposals Accepted Anytime

Until April 1, 2024

DOD

Office of Naval Research STEM Program

This RFP supports STEM education programs and activities that: develop learners’ knowledge, skill, or interest in STEM; attract students to pursue certifications, licenses, or degrees (two-year degrees through post-doctoral degrees) or careers in STEM fields; provide growth and research opportunities for post-secondary, college and graduate students in STEM fields, such as working with researchers or conducting research that is primarily intended to further education; improve mentor/educator (K-12 pre-service or in-service, post-secondary, and informal) quality in STEM areas; and improve or expand the capacity of institutions to promote or foster STEM fields.

April 02, 2024

DoD

Strategic Trends Division Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

Per priorities identified by the 2018 National Defense Strategy, SI-STT seeks white papers and proposals for research studies, strategic dialogues, and tabletop exercises.

March 2, 2025

DoD

Future Scholars for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Development Programs

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

Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) - Transformative Artificial Intelligence Research and Applications

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:

1.  Autonomous Platforms
2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms (AI/ML)
3. AI-Based Decision Making 
4. Analysis and Human-Machine Interfaces
5. Data Visualization and Synthetic Environments
6. Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) 
7. Sensing 
8. Communications & Networks
9. Internet of Things (IoT)
10. Human Performance 
11. Underpinning Methodologies

Proposals Accepted Until July 31, 2026

Whitepapers REQUIRED prior to proposal submission

DOD

Active and Passive RF Sensing

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

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

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

NSF

Energy, Power, Control, and Networks

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

NSF

Manufacturing Systems Integration

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. 

Proposals Accepted Anytime

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

Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE)

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

Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)

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

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

Environmental Sustainability

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:

• Industrial ecology
• Green engineering
• Ecological engineering:
• Earth systems engineering

Proposals Accepted Anytime

NSF

Foundational Research in Robotics

The focus of the Robotics program is on foundational advances in robotics.

Proposals Accepted Anytime

NSF

Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research

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:

• Cellular Dynamics and Function
• Genetic Mechanisms
• Molecular Biophysics
• Systems and Synthetic Biology

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.

Proposals Accepted Anytime

NSF

Mathematical Biology

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

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):

• Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program
• Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program;
• Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; and
• Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program.

Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS):

• CNS Core (CNS Core) program.

Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS):

• Human-Centered Computing (HCC) program (formerly the Cyber-Human Systems [CHS] program);
• Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and
• Robust Intelligence (RI) program.Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)

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

Funding Entity

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Description

Deadline

DOJ

Office of Justice Programs Current Funding Opportunities

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details

DOJ

Office on Violence Against Women Open Solicitations

Various programs, check the link for details

Various deadlines, check the link for details

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 03, 2023

November 01, 2023