Natural and Applied Sciences & Mathematics
Last Updated: November 17, 2025
Below are currently active opportunities for research funding listed in ascending order by the external due dates. Contact the Sr. Grant Facilitator at orsp-preaward@newark.rutgers.edu for additional information regarding any of these.
Listed in Ascending Order of External Due Dates
(i.e. if it’s listed first, it’s due to the sponsor sooner)
Funding Source: Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
Amount: $150,000 and up to $1.5M, and $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 – (Total Funding: $23,260,000)
Key Deadlines: 11/10/2025, and 03/09/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines NSF 25-527
Brief Overview: Supports various projects that are interdisciplinary, high-risk research that integrates intelligent technologies with natural and built environments to tackle critical challenges and enhance the quality of life in communities through collaboration with stakeholders.
Funding Source: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed) – NSF 25-541 – Cooperative Agreement
Amount: $5M per year not to exceed $20M per year per PCL (physical cloud location node)
Key Deadline: 11/20/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines
Brief Overview: Autonomous experimentation is poised to accelerate research and unlock critical scientific advances that bolster U.S. competitiveness and address pressing societal needs. Programmable Cloud Laboratories are able to execute automated workstreams, including self-driving lab workflows, to efficiently move research goals through artificial intelligence (AI) enabled experiment design, laboratory preparations, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. While limited-scale efforts have shown promise, versatile programmable and self-driving labs capable of addressing complex research questions with trustworthy results will require coordinated technological advances and an engaged research community. Additional challenges include the availability of automated laboratory infrastructure, standardized approaches to data collection for interoperability, advances in AI for data interpretation and experimental design, and more. This solicitation aims to address such gaps and realize the potential of autonomous experimentation. Limit on number of proposals per organization, PI and Co-PI– please email Anthony Mayo with a copy to Joel Caplan if interested.
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Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Amount: Award floor: $3,000,000 and award ceiling: $4,500,000
Key Deadline: 11/24/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-532: Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
Brief Overview: The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) program provides sustained support of materials research and education of the highest quality while addressing fundamental problems in science and engineering. Each MRSEC addresses research of a scope and complexity requiring the scale, synergy, and multidisciplinary efforts provided by a campus-based research center.
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Funding Source: Burroughs Wellcome Fund invites applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Amount: $560,000 over 5 years
Key Deadline: if you filed an LOI by 09/02/2025, then your full proposal is due on 11/24/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Career Awards at the Scientific Interface – Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Brief Overview: Recognizing the vital role cross-trained scientists will play in furthering biomedical science, the fund will cover over five years to foster the early-career development of researchers dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. The target group for this funding opportunity is researchers who have transitioned into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences from graduate work in the physical, mathematical, or computational sciences or engineering. Funding will be used to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first years of faculty service. Proposals that include deep or machine learning applications of AI are particularly encouraged.
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Funding Source: Environmental Research & Education Foundation
Amount: $15,000 (grants may range from $15,000 to $500,000)
Key Deadlines: 12/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Strategic Research Priorities
Brief Overview: EREF is one of the largest sources of private research funding in North America related to sustainable materials management, cutting edge research to help address the many challenges that exist.
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Funding Source: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
Amount: $34,000,000
Key Deadlines: 12/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 22-632
Brief Overview: Targets small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering and interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities
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Funding Source: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) | NSF 22-632
Amount: Up to $10,000,000: Elements awards. Up to $20,000,000: Framework Implementations awards. Up to $4,000,000 for Transition to Sustainability
Key Deadlines: 12/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: View guidelines NSF 22-632
Brief Overview: The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, and quantitative metrics.
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Funding Source: Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS)– NSF 25-544 – Cooperative Agreement
Amount: $500,000 to $30 million depending upon the project category selected.
Key Deadline: 12/04/2005 or 07/28/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines
Brief Overview: Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) provides operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that advance open, data-intensive, AI-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education. The IDSS program is soliciting submissions for three project categories: Category I. Creation, implementation, and operation of unique national-scale integrated data systems and services, which may interface with or use other capabilities, systems, and services as needed. In Category II, established data-focused systems and services grow up from regional, pilot, or prototype to national-scale production and operational quality. This may also include improving and expanding national-scale data-focused operational systems and services. Category III: Planning funding for IDSS development/deployment or transition/enhancement. Limit on number of proposals per Organization, PI and Co-PI – please email Anthony Mayo with a copy to Joel Caplan if interested.
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Funding Source: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30) – FON: PA-25-425
Amount: FY2025 Stipend Amounts
Key Deadline: applications due: 12/08/25, 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are here
Brief Overview: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support students at institutions without NIH-funded institutional predoctoral dual-degree training programs. The purpose of the Kirschstein-NRSA, dual-doctoral degree, predoctoral fellowship (F30) is to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program (e.g. DO/PhD, DDS/PhD, AuD/PhD, DVM/PhD, PharmD/PhD), and who intend careers as physician/clinician-scientists. Candidates must propose an integrated research and clinical training plan and a research training project in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The fellowship experience is expected to clearly enhance the individual’s potential to develop into a productive, independent physician/clinician-scientist. Note: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) does not allow candidates to propose to lead an independent clinical trial, but does allow applicants to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor.
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Funding Source: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)
Amount: FY2025 Stipend Amounts
Key Deadlines: applications due: 12/08/25, 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are here
Brief Overview: The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral (Parent F31) award is to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The proposed mentored research training must address the candidate’s identified research training and career goals and enhance the candidate’s potential to successfully transition to the next phase of their biomedical research career. Note: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) does not allow fellowship candidates to propose to lead an independent clinical trial but does allow candidates to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor.
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Funding Source: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent F32), which is a reissue of PA-23-262
Amount: FY2025 Stipend Amounts
Key Deadline: applications due: 12/08/25, 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are here
Brief Overview: The purpose of the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral (Parent F32) award is to enable promising postdoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The proposed mentored research training must address the candidate’s identified research training and career goals and enhance the candidate’s potential to successfully transition to the next phase of their biomedical research career. Note: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) does not allow fellowship candidates to propose leading an independent clinical trial but does allow candidates to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor.
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Funding Source: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Senior Fellowship (Parent F33)
Amount: FY2025 Stipend Amounts
Key Deadline: applications due: 12/08/25, 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are here
Brief Overview: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards senior individual research training fellowships to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers. Note: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) does not allow fellowship candidates to propose to lead an independent clinical trial but does allow candidates to propose research experience in a clinical trial led by a sponsor or co-sponsor.
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Funding Source: ONR Releases FY 2026 HBCU/MI Program
Amount: $450,000 – 525,000
Key Deadlines: If you submitted a required white paper (9/19/2025) then your full proposal is due on (12/12/2025)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Notice of Funding Opportunity
Brief Overview: Key programmatic objectives of the DoN HBCU/MI Program are achieved through the implementation and performance of three program goals: (1) enhancing the research and educational capabilities of HBCU/MIs in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the defense mission of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, (2) encouraging cross-institutional, collaborative efforts that explore innovative solutions to naval science and technology (S&T) challenges, and (3) Increasing the engagement of students in STEM fields important to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
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Funding Source: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation invites proposals for cancer research
Amount: Budget limit not listed
Key Deadline: 12/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
Brief Overview: The foundation invites applications from investigators at nonprofit institutions in the United States who are working to identify new treatments or cures for cancer. The foundation encourages one-year proposals, with the goal to establish capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. The foundation anticipates that this early-stage funding may lead to subsequent and expanded support from a government agency or other source. Project relevance to cancer detection, treatment, or cure should be clearly identified.
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Funding Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Amount: $1,000,000
Key Deadline: 12/31/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Read revised full announcement -related documents
Brief Overview: The goal of the NFPP is to restore ecological connectivity of the Nation’s aquatic systems to the maximum extent possible to reconnect fluvial and tidal processes that enable native fish and other aquatic organisms to access a full range of habitat types to meet their life history needs seasonally and annually. Eligible projects will provide meaningful benefits for aquatic habitats and infrastructure resiliency.
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Funding Source: PKD Foundation invites applications for polycystic kidney disease research
Amount: $120,000
Key Deadline: if you filed a preapplication by 8/11/2025 then your full proposal is due 01/12/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: PKDF_Research_Grant_Program-Guidelines_2026_Final.pdf
Brief Overview: The foundation invites applications to its research program. Grants of up to two years will be awarded to support basic research that enhances understanding of the molecular basis of PKD and its pathobiology; translational research that accelerates the development of predictive and therapeutic strategies for PKD; clinical research, such as small pilot studies; and epidemiology/data analysis research to conduct secondary data analyses utilizing existing database resources, or to develop new statistical methodologies or test hypotheses using existing data.
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Funding Source: NSF 25-548: Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
Amount: from $1 million to $8 million depending on the selected track
Key Deadline: 01/15/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines
Brief Overview: This solicitation seeks proposals aimed at creating resources that will ultimately assist and facilitate research translation, accelerate technology transfer, and create sustained economic and collective impacts at a wide range of IHEs across all geographies of the United States. As mentioned earlier, the ART program is built around five distinct but interconnected Tracks. Details on each of these Tracks, including guidance on proposal preparation, are described in the sections that follow. Note: Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization – please email Anthony Mayo with a copy to Joel Caplan if interested.
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Funding Source: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)-NSF 25-507
Amount: Pending availability of funds and proposal quality
Key Deadline: 01/16/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-507: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences.
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Funding Source: Scientific Software Research Faculty Award
Amount: Up to $250,000 over 5 years
Key Deadline: 01/21/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application and details
Brief Overview: The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for its Scientific Software Research Faculty Award (SSRF Award) in the MPS program for new faculty appointments to start no later than September 1, 2027. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.
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Funding Source: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)-NSF 25-531
Amount: Collaborative: $600,000; RSSD: $600,000; TCR: $1,200,000; IPAAI: $900,000
Key Deadline: 01/21/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-531: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, complex, data-driven, distributed, rapid, and collaborative science and the breadth of infrastructure and requirements across scientific disciplines, practitioners, researchers, and projects. CICI seeks proposals in four program areas.
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Funding Source: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Amount: $250,000 total costs (direct plus indirect)
Key Deadline: 01/22/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-535: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The Launching of Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) supports the launch of the careers of pre-tenure faculty whose research is in Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) fields at institutions that do not traditionally receive significant amounts of MPS funding, such as Carnegie Research 2 (R2) universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs), predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs).
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Funding Source: Travel Support for Mathematicians
Amount: Up to $8,400
Key Deadline: 01/29/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Details
Brief Overview: The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences division invites applications for its Travel Support for Mathematicians program, which is intended to stimulate collaboration in the field primarily through the funding of travel and related expenditures.
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Funding Source: Translation and Diffusion (TD)- NSF 25-528
Amount: $1,800,000 (Phase I), $4,000,000 (Phase II)
Key Deadline: 02/04/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 23-575: Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: This solicitation addresses issues of translation and diffusion that arise in moving knowledge gained from fundamental learning and education research toward application in PreK-12 STEM classroom practice or leveraging knowledge derived from effective practice toward driving fundamental research. The first goal of this funding opportunity is to encourage the scientific study of theories, frameworks, and models for the translation and diffusion of knowledge, especially between fields and across contexts and levels-of-analysis (e.g., biological to cognitive/socioemotional to behavioral; individual to classroom to broader demographic variables; lab to classroom to school to district). The second goal is to advance or move specific practice, research or scientific discovery in STEM education reciprocally along the research-practice continuum.
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Funding Source: Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) – NSF 25-530
Amount: $6,000,000 to $10,000,000
Key Deadline: 02/04/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-530: Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) program seeks to advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system. The program supports projects that advance AI techniques and/or innovative uses of sophisticated or novel AI methods to enable significant breakthroughs in addressing geoscience research question(s) by building partnerships between experts in AI and Geosciences. The key characteristic of a CAIG project is its potential to both answer important geoscience questions and improve AI techniques while also bringing together experts from both the AI and geoscience fields.
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Funding Source: Foundations for Operating the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource: the NAIRR Operations Center (NAIRR-OC) – NSF 25-546
Amount: Up to $35,000,000
Key Deadline: 02/04/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines
Brief Overview: The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot is a pioneering public-private initiative to catalyze a competitive national artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem for discovery and innovation by connecting U.S. researchers and educators to the most advanced public and private-sector computational and data platforms, datasets, software, AI models, and technological expertise necessary to accelerate AI-driven discovery and innovation. This award Supports the creation of an operations center to manage and expand the National AI Research Resource, providing U.S. researchers and educators sustained access to advanced AI tools, data and expertise for innovation, workforce development and competitiveness. Limit on number of proposals per Organization, PI and Co-PI – please email Anthony Mayo with a copy to Joel Caplan if interested.
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Funding Source: Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
Amount: $6,000 to $12,000,000
Key Deadline: 02/05/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-543: Computer and Information Science and Engineering : Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) supports transformative research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering through multiple research programs. These programs support research and education activities that advance:
- mathematical, scientific and technological foundations of computing communication, hardware, software and emerging technologies.
- understanding and development of computer and network systems, cyber-physical systems, and cybersecurity as well as their roles in solving complex scientific, engineering, and societal problems; and
- understanding of the inter-related roles of people, computers, and information.
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Funding Source: Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact (SoS:DCI)
Amount: Contact Project Officer – (subject to availability)
Key Deadlines: 02/10/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports research focused on advancing knowledge and theory on the social science of scientific discovery; theories, models and data improving our understanding of scientific communication; and how science advances evidence-based policymaking and public value. Of particular interest are proposals with the potential to strengthen America’s global leadership in science and increase national competitiveness across a broad range of domains. These include proposals that analyze strategies for strengthening and expanding the scientific workforce, as well as ways to cultivate high-impact discovery across sectors. The program strongly encourages convergent research and collaboration.
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Funding Source: Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Enriching Learning, Programs, and Student Experiences (HSI:ELPSE)
Amount: varies from $200,000 to $1,000,000
Key Deadlines: 02/11/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application details: 24-551
Brief Overview: Supports projects that enhance undergraduate STEM education at Hispanic-serving Institutions in all disciplines supported by NSF and improves access to computing and lab resources necessary to enhance undergraduate students’ educational experiences.
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Funding Source: EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
Amount: Up to $12,000,000 various amounts
Key Deadlines: 02/27/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 22-548
Brief Overview: Supports activities that will advance STEM education research, including professional development for researchers, institutional training on the use of cutting-edge research techniques, and conferences.
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Funding Source: Foundation for Prader-Willi Research invites research applications
Amount: $150,000
Key Deadline: LOI is due (2/28/2026) and your full proposal is due on 05/16/2026)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: FPWR Grant Program – Foundation for Prader-Willi Research
Brief Overview: PWR aims to support innovative, high-risk/high-reward research, and supports research internationally. Funding priorities identified by the foundation include genotype to phenotype: understanding PWS genetics and how loss of PWS-critical region genes leads to the phenotype; neurobiology of hunger and feeding behavior and metabolism in PWS; neurobiology of cognition, maladaptive behavior, and mental health in PWS; clinical care research: evaluation of existing drugs and interventions to improve the significant clinical concerns in PWS; and therapeutics development for PWS-genetic therapies; novel or repurposed pharmaceuticals; and devices.
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Funding Source: Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB)-NSF: 25-509
Amount: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: 03/02/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-509: Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) program seeks to stimulate the development of innovative mathematical theories, techniques, and approaches to investigate challenging questions of great interest to biologists and public health policymakers. It supports truly integrative research projects in mathematical biology that address challenging and significant biological questions through novel applications of traditional, but nontrivial, mathematical tools and methods or the development of new mathematical theories particularly from foundational mathematics, including the mathematical foundation of Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning/Machine Learning (AI/DL/ML) enabling explainable AI or mechanistic insight. The program emphasizes the uses of mathematical methodologies to advance our understanding of complex, dynamic, and heterogenous biological systems at all scales (molecular, cellular, organismal, population, ecosystems, evolutionary, etc.).
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Funding Source: NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM)-NSF 25-514
Amount: $2,000,000
Key Deadline: 03/03/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-514: NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable academically talented, low-income students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program seeks to increase the number of academically promising low-income students who graduate with an S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to institutions of higher education (IHEs) not only to fund scholarships, but also to adapt, implement, and study evidence-based curricular and co-curricular[a] activities that have been shown to be effective in supporting recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.
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Funding Source: Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)-NSF 25-533
Amount: up to $2,00,000 per year and should not exceed $6,000,000 for 3 years
Key Deadline: 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-533: Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: Broadening Participation In STEM: The FAIROS Program seeks to support a broad range of transformative open science activities including but not limited to i.) Research, education, and socio-technical cyberinfrastructure development capacities that advance sustainable multi-disciplinary findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management (RDM) and open science capabilities, ii.) Piloting new models of scientific communication and publication that improve efficiency and accessibility, iii.) Developing FAIROS data portals, research data commons, RDM as a national service, and iv.) Lowering barriers to accessing, curating, integrating, linking, managing, sharing, and storing data across many disciplinary domains, irrespective of data size.
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Funding Source: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellowship for Students at Institutions with NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (Parent F30) – FON: PA-25-426, which is a reissue of PA-23-260
Amount: FY2025 Stipend Amounts
Key Deadline: applications due: 04/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are here
Brief Overview: The overall goal of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is to help ensure a highly trained, heterogenous pool of scientists is available in appropriate scientific disciplines to address the Nation’s biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs. NRSA fellowships support the training of pre-and postdoctoral scientists, dual-degree investigators, and senior researchers. More information about NRSA programs may be found at the NIH Research Training and Career Development website.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: Parkinsons Conference Awards
Amount: The proposals potential impact on Parkinson’s research and the Foundation’s goal will determine the level of support after examining the application.
Key Deadline: Rolling Applications all year round
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Please contact Grants@Parkinson.org if you are interested in applying.
Brief Overview: All applications should demonstrate the potential to advance the field of Parkinson’s research. We require publicly available meeting results. Applicants may use this award to:
- Identify or define emerging research questions
- Plan or organize a clinical trial
- Standardize research methods
The Parkinson’s Foundation commits to including the perspective and experience of people living with PD in the research process. We highly encourage applicants to incorporate a community engagement component into award applications.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems: NSF 25-537
Amount: $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 and expects to make 4-10 awards
Key Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime (by 5pm submitting organization’s local time)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-537: NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: Recognizing the importance of international collaborations in promoting scientific discoveries, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research cooperation. The MoU provides an overarching framework to enhance opportunities for collaborative activities between US and German research communities and sets out the principles by which jointly supported activities might be developed. To facilitate the support of collaborative work between US researchers and their German counterparts under this MoU, the Division of Chemistry (CHE) and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) at NSF and the Divisions of Physics and Chemistry (PC) and Engineering Sciences (ING 1) at DFG are pleased to announce a Lead Agency Opportunity for Collaborative Research in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: Wenner-Gren Foundation invites applications for anthropological workshops and conferences
Amount: $20,000
Key Deadlines: Roling 12/01/20xx and 06/01/20xx
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Program Details
Brief Overview: The Foundation supports multidisciplinary meetings but only if the event’s primary aim is to advance anthropological conversations. The primary organizer must hold a doctorate in anthropology or a related field. Graduate students are welcome to act as co-organizers, but they must be listed as co-applicants for the purpose of the grant.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: National Defense Education Program
Amount: $10,000,000 (award ceiling) and $100,000 (award floor)
Key Deadline: rolling until 02/08/2028
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Please read before applying
Brief Overview: The Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) seeks innovative applications on mechanisms to implement and research the effectiveness of STEM education, outreach, and/or workforce initiative programs, here onto referred as STEM activities. In response to this NFO, the Department intends to release amendments and solicitations, such as Industry Days, Opportunity Days, etc., detailing funding opportunities through award(s) in STEM activities.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: Parkinsons Conference Awards
Amount: The proposals potential impact on Parkinson’s research and the Foundation’s goal will determine the level of support after examining the application.
Key Deadline: Rolling Applications all year round
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Please contact Grants@Parkinson.org if you are interested in applying.
Brief Overview: All applications should demonstrate the potential to advance the field of Parkinson’s research. We require publicly available meeting results. Applicants may use this award to:
- Identify or define emerging research questions
- Plan or organize a clinical trial
- Standardize research methods
The Parkinson’s Foundation commits to including the perspective and experience of people living with PD in the research process. We highly encourage applicants to incorporate a community engagement component into award applications.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
Amount: No award floor or ceiling noted
Key Deadlines: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: PD-25-058Y
Brief Overview: The Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus (M3X) program supports fundamental research that enables intelligent engineered systems and humans to engage in bidirectional interaction in a physics-based environment, to enhance and ensure safety, productivity, and well-being.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: The Research-on-Research Security Program
Amount: No award floor or ceiling: Total program funding $2,000,000
Key Deadlines: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: PD-25-275Y
Brief Overview: The research that RoRS funds will foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and proposers should address how they will leverage the range of expertise, theories, and methods of the team to engage in evidence-based research on research security.
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ROLLLING- Funding Source: Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences
Amount: No award floor or ceiling noted
Key Deadlines: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: PD-25-1575
Brief Overview: Education and Broadening Participation Program (EBP) facilitates activities that engage a wide range of audiences in Earth Sciences research efforts, which are: 1)Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Teachers, 2)EAR Postdoctoral Fellowships: 3) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER): This program also supports pre-tenure researchers.