Natural and Applied Sciences & Mathematics
Last Updated: June 6, 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)
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Funding Source: Wenner-Gren Foundation invites applications for anthropological workshops and conferences
Amount: $20,000
Key Deadlines: 06/01/2025, and 12/01/2026
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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Funding Source: Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
Amount: Up to $ 30,000,000 annually
Key Deadlines: 06/02/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Program Guidelines
Brief Overview: The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports exceptionally innovative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs focus on creating new scientific paradigms, establishing entirely new scientific disciplines, and developing transformative technologies which have the potential for broad scientific or societal impact.
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Funding Source: DARPA Defense Sciences Office
Amount: $150,400,000 (multiple awards and submission date)
Key Deadlines (2025): June 2 & 16, 18, Aug 16, & Sep 27
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/dso
Brief Overview: Ultraviolet Nuclear Spectroscopy of Thorium, Intrinsically Tough and Affordable Ceramics, Sleep Transitions in Operationally Restrictive Environments, Hybridizing Biology and Robotics, Mathematics Advancements in Science and Security, Crystal Substrate Bonding
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Funding Source: American Association for Cancer Research invites applications for paradigm-shifting research
Amount: $1,000,000 over 3 years
Key Deadline: 06/12/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: American Association for Cancer Research
Brief Overview: Grants are intended to provide talented investigators with resources and dedicated time to establish innovative, emerging research projects, which may be exploratory, developmental, or proof-of-concept. By funding paradigm-shifting research, these grants are intended to advance the understanding of cancer biology, drive groundbreaking translational discoveries, and/or improve patient outcomes.
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Funding Source: Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE)
Amounts: No award floor or ceiling – view grant opportunity page within hyperlink
Key Deadline: 06/12 – 06/20/ 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Also links to NSF Program Description PD-25-345Y
Brief Overview: The Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) program invites innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire. Focus areas 1: Next Generation Coupled Fire Models (FIRE-MODEL). Focus area 2: Enhancing Capacity for Fire Resilience in the Wildland-Urban Interface (FIRE-WUI). Focus area 3: Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) Networks (FIRE-NET).
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Funding Source: FY 2025 NIST Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II
Amount: No preset award floor or ceiling
Key Deadline: 06/14/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Additional Information on Eligibility and guidelines
Brief Overview: The NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase II is seeking applications from the previous Fiscal Year for the current (FY) 2025 NIST SBIR Phase II NOFO Phase II projects, with the aim of developing a viable product or service, and/or a standard, that will be introduced to the commercial marketplace.
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Funding Source: Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation invites applications for OREF/AAOS Clinical Gaps Research Grant
Amount: $100,000
Key Deadline: 06/17/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application
Brief Overview: Solicits investigator-initiated research proposals focused on addressing clinical gaps in healing, repair, or diagnostics through devices, biologics, or technology. Areas of research focus may include translational preclinical or clinical research to preferably include pilot human studies.
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Funding Source: amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research issues RFP for Target Grants
Amount: Up to $480,000
Key Deadline: 06/18/2025 Synopsis deadline
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application process
Brief Overview: The proposed research must be conducted and validated either in vivo (in PLWH, non-human primates, or humanized mice), or ex vivo (in cells isolated from PLWH or infected animals). Interventions tested exclusively in cell lines or in primary cells from HIV-negative individuals will not be considered responsive to this RFP. Submissions that propose only describing the reservoir (i.e., without pre-clinical or clinical interventions) will not be forwarded for review, unless they provide new and critical insights that will meaningfully accelerate HIV cure strategies.
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Funding Source: DARPA: Reengineering Enabling Sleep Transitions in Operationally Restrictive Environments (RESTORE)
Amount: No award floor or ceiling noted
Key Deadlines: 06/18/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HR001125S0012
Brief Overview: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking novel neuromodulation solutions to improve sleep efficiency and performance under sleep restriction. The RESTORE program develops multimodal, multitarget, noninvasive neuromodulation methods to repair sleep architectures disrupted by sleep restriction to improve cognitive performance. The proposed research should use novel methods to revolutionize performance psychology sleep mechanisms.
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Funding Source: Future Manufacturing (FM)
Amount: $3,000,000 for up to four years & up to $500,000 for up to two years.
Key Deadlines: 06/18/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Full Program Guidelines
Brief Overview: Future Manufacturing supports research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse STEM workforce, and by reducing adverse impacts of manufacturing on the environment. Proposals that include significant participation from minority-serving institutions, primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, institutions from EPSCoR states, and/or incorporate expertise in improving diversity and inclusion are especially encouraged.
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Funding Source: Little Giraffe Foundation invites proposals for neonatal research
Amount: $5,000 to $10,000
Key Deadline: 06/20/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Form
Brief Overview: The foundation invites applications for its 2025 Neonatal Research Initiative, which will award grants ranging between $5,000 and $10,000 to scientists, doctors, and nurses at universities, hospitals, and research institutions in support of research directed at addressing both the long term and immediate health needs caused by premature birth.
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Funding Source: DOD CDMRP Releases FY 2025 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Solicitations
Amount: Up to $130 million
Key Deadline: pre-application 06/20/2025, full application 09/25/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Grants.gov details
Brief Overview: The fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Impact Award supports mature research that will have a near-term impact on clinical cancer care in one of the congressionally directed FY25 PRCRP topic areas. Applicants must consider how the research project will lead to the advancement of knowledge in cancer research, patient care and/or treatment options in the Military Health System (MHS).
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Funding Source: Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation invites applications for Mentored Clinician Scientist Grant program
Amount: $20,000
Key Deadline: 06/23/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Proposal Central
Brief Overview: OREF invites applications for its Mentored Clinician Scientist Grant program, which will award grants of $20,000 to promote the development of new clinician scientists who have demonstrated success as both a clinician and a researcher. The program enables investigators to spend dedicated time in research for up to five years to develop a long and productive career in academic surgery.
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Funding Source: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research invites applications for Dairy Health, Efficiency & Resource Dynamics (Dairy HERD) Initiative
Amount: $500,000 to $1.3 million
Key Deadline: 06/25/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Proposals
Brief Overview: The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) and Zoetis have announced the $1.3 million launch of the Dairy Health, Efficiency & Resource Dynamics (Dairy HERD) Initiative, which aims to advance research in animal health, ensure the economic viability of the U.S. dairy industry, and improve environmental outcomes.
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Funding Source: Defense Innovation Unit Release Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
Amount: $5 million dollars each (10-25 awards)/ up to $50 million
Key Deadline: 06/25/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Additional Information
Brief Overview: The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) released its Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge solicitation, a 12-week program which aims to provide prize awards, tailored mentorship, and defense engagement opportunities. The DIU University Defense Accelerator Prize seeks to address challenges in technology translation (between TRL 2-4) that students, faculty, and university-founded startups face. Applications will be evaluated by a set of DOD innovation experts, and fifteen finalists will be selected to participate in the Accelerator Challenge starting in August 2025.
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Funding Source: Workforce Development for Energy Transition
Amount: While applicants must request between $100,000 and $750,000 for projects, $3M is available for this funding opportunity
Key Deadlines: 06/25/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Instructions
Brief Overview: GRP is seeking applications for sustainable, data-driven, industry-engaged projects that will provide education and training opportunities to students ages 16-25 and ready participants to become part of the future energy workforce.
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Funding Source: DoD Breast Cancer Clinical Research Extension Award
Amount: No award floor/ceiling: $26,350,000 total available
Key Deadlines: 06/27/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525BCRPCREA
Brief Overview: The intent of this award mechanism is to increase the clinically relevant impact of breast cancer patient participation in clinical research by addressing the knowledge lost due to early trial termination, limited patient follow-up, or suboptimal sample and/or data collection and analysis. Applications must address at least one of the FY25 BCRP overarching challenges, unless adequate justification for exception is provided.
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Funding Source: DoD Breast Cancer Era of Hope Scholar Award
Amount: No award floor/ceiling: $10,850,000 total available
Key Deadlines: 06/27/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525BCRPEOHS
Brief Overview: Supports individuals who are early in their careers with significant potential to effect meaningful change in breast cancer. As the intent of the fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope Scholar Award is to recognize creative and innovative individuals rather than projects.
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Funding Source: DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2
Amount: No award floor or ceiling listed – $ 37,700,000 (total program funding)
Key Deadlines: 06/27/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525BCRPBTA12
Brief Overview: Supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. All applications must address at least one of the fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) overarching challenges, unless adequate justification for exception is provided. The FY25 Breakthrough Award mechanism contains three different funding levels designed to support major (but not all) stages of research that will lead to clinical application. Each level has a defined research scope.
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Funding Source: Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund invites applications from conservation organizations
Amount: $25,000
Key Deadline: 06/30/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Grant Application
Brief Overview: The Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund is an innovative philanthropy providing small grants to boots-on-the-ground, get-your-hands-dirty, in-the-field conservation projects for the world’s most threatened species. The fund is primarily interested in supporting in situ species conservation work (such as survey work and data gathering, direct action, recovery management, training, and the like) that focuses on the species in its natural habitat.
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Funding Source: National Geographic Society issues Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability RFP
Amount: up to $50,000
Key Deadline: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application
Brief Overview: The National Geographic Society has issued an Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability request for proposals. The RFP is focused on the study of archaeological and related interdisciplinary data for the purposes of increasing our understanding of human-environmental interactions over time and to ultimately contribute to mitigating contemporary environmental crises.
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Funding Source: Research Corporation for Science Advancement invites applications for Cottrell Scholar Award
Amount: $120,000
Key Deadline: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application
Brief Overview: The organization invites applications for its Cottrell Scholar Award program, which supports tenure-track faculty who hold primary or courtesy appointments in chemistry, physics, or astronomy departments that offer bachelor’s and/or graduate degrees in the applicant’s discipline. The award is available to early-career faculty at U.S. and Canadian research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions. Cottrell Scholar Awards are for three-year projects in the amount of $120,000 for the entire project. CSA funds may be used in support of both the educational and research projects of the Cottrell Scholar.
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Funding Source: NASPGHAN Foundation invites applications for celiac disease projects
Amount: $5,000 to $150,000
Key Deadline: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Naspghan Grants
Brief Overview: The intent with these grants is to support various projects such as celiac disease and gluten-free diet related innovative research or education proposals focused on the following: new research areas that could improve the diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease, development of innovative tools or technologies to improve celiac disease management, research focused on understanding and improving adherence to the gluten-free diet among individuals with celiac disease, and research activities that have the potential to advance the nutrition care of patients and families of children with celiac disease.
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Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Amount: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 23-566: Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Arch-SR)
Brief Overview: The program sets no priorities by either geographic region or time period. It also has no priorities regarding theoretical orientation or question. While the program, in order to encourage innovative research, has neither limits nor defines specific categories of research, most proposals either request funds for field research or the analysis of archaeological material through multiple approaches.
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Funding Source: Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate (RAMPS) Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development
Amount: No award floor or ceiling
Key Deadlines: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: 2025-NIST-RAMPS-01
Brief Overview: The NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs. Effective multistakeholder workforce partnerships will organize multiple employers with skill shortages in specific occupations to focus on developing the skilled workforce to meet industry needs within the local or regional economy.
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Funding Source: Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards
Amount: Total program funding: $6,000,000
Key Deadlines: 07/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 23-566
Brief Overview: 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. The program sets no priorities by either geographic region or time period. It also has no priorities in regard to theoretical orientation or question. While the program encourages innovative research neither limits nor defines specific categories of research, most proposals either request funds for field research or the analysis of archaeological material through multiple approaches.
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Funding Source: Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies
Amount: Award floor: $75,000, and award ceiling: $1,500,000 (total est: $12,000,000)
Key Deadlines: 07/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-536
Brief Overview: Multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that inform, explore, and execute the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies, with a focus on artificial intelligence; biotechnology; and/or natural and anthropogenic disaster prevention or mitigation. The program has two primary aims: 1) to support and strengthen collaborations across disciplines and sectors, such as academia, industry, non-profit, and government for technology translation; and 2) to ensure that ethical, legal, and societal considerations and community values are embedded across the design, development, and deployment of use-inspired technology to promote the public’s wellbeing.
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Funding Source: Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies
Amount: $75,000 (floor), $1,500,000 (ceiling) (est. program funding: $12,000,000)
Key Deadline: 07/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Grant Opportunity Package (ID: PKG00290597)
Brief Overview: No cost sharing requirements. Offered through grants.gov and will also be offered by NSF (site not yet updated). The program has two primary aims: 1) to support and strengthen collaborations across disciplines and sectors, such as academia, industry, non-profit, and government for technology translation; and 2) to ensure that ethical, legal, and societal considerations and community values are embedded across the design, development, and deployment of use-inspired technology to promote the public’s wellbeing. Use grants.gov as the NSF site has not yet been updated.
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Funding Source: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)
Amount: Total estimated funding: $6,000,000
Key Deadlines: 07/14/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-538
Brief Overview: The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) program supports research that incorporates social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve integrated participation from the mathematical and social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Funding Source: NSF: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
Amount: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: 07/14/ 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-538: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM)
Brief Overview: The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) program supports research that incorporates social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve integrated participation from the mathematical and social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Funding Source: Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Excellence in Research (HBCU – EiR)
Amount: $28,000,000 anticipated funding & still pending & (30 – 35 awards anticipated)
Key Deadlines: 07/10/2025, (Letter of Intent) 10/21/2025 (full proposal)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Information
Brief Overview: The Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR) program was established in response to direction provided in the Senate Commerce and Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Report (Senate Report 115-139), and is built on prior and continuing efforts by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to strengthen research capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Supports research at public and private historically Black colleges and universities to strengthen research capacity and promote engagement with NSF.
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Funding Source: STATE-BISHKEK-PDS-25-0006
Amount: $10,000 (floor) and $50,000 (ceiling)
Key Deadlines: 07/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Additional Information on Eligibility
Brief Overview: U.S. Department of State announces an open competition to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education and investment in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Funding Source: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Amount: Anticipated Funding Amount: $250,000,000
Key Deadlines: 07/23/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 22-586
Brief Overview: 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. Est: 500 awards per year.
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Funding Source: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Amount: $250,000,000 and (est. 500 awards will be made)
Key Deadlines: 07/23/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 22-586
Brief Overview: 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 the 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.
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Funding Source: Exponentiating Mathematics (expMath)
Amount: No award floor or ceiling
Key Deadlines: 08/07/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Additional Information
Brief Overview: The goal of expMath is to radically accelerate the rate of progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI co-author capable of proposing and proving useful abstractions. expMath will be comprised of teams focused on developing AI capable of auto decomposition and auto(in)formalization and teams focused on evaluation with respect to professional-level mathematics.
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Funding Source: DOD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Clinical/Translational Research Award
Amount: $8,560,000
Key Deadlines: 08/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525DMDRPCTRA
Brief Overview: Supports advanced translational research that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research into clinical applications. Research must address at least one of the FY25 CTRA focus areas. Research projects investigating therapies that will be efficacious across the life span, including infants, toddlers, and non-ambulatory individuals, are strongly encouraged
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Funding Source: DOD Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Idea Development Award
Amount: $1,680,000
Key Deadlines: 08/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525DMDRPIDA
Brief Overview: This award supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress in improving outcomes for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Applications should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on strong scientific rationale. The FY25 DMDRP IDA mechanism has a New Investigator category for applicants early in their career.
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Funding Source: Robert E. Leet and Clara Guthrie Patterson Trust Mentored Research Award
Amount: $200,000
Key Deadlines: 08/14/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Eligibility and Instructions
Brief Overview: To promote and enable diversity in biomedical research, the Patterson Trust and Seery Foundation are committed to awarding researchers of all backgrounds, including racial/ethnic groups that are underrepresented in science. The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have established that individuals from the following groups are underrepresented in science: Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders. Applicants that identify as a member of these groups are encouraged to apply.
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Funding Source: Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
Amount: various: $2,100,000, $3,620,000, $3,880,000 and $2,450,000
Key Deadlines: 08/19/2025 and 08/29/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines– NSF 21-576
Brief Overview: Supports alliances among institutions of higher education to design and implement strategies that increase the number of historically underrepresented STEM faculty and promote systemic change. Improving equity and inclusion is critical to advancing STEM faculty, educating America’s future STEM workforce, fostering individual opportunity and contributing to a thriving U.S. economy. The NSF AGEP program, therefore, seeks to fund grants that advance and enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and, consequently, mitigate the systemic inequities in the academic profession and workplace.
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Funding Source: Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Amount: up to $84,800,000
Key Deadlines: 08/20/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF-23601 (REU)
Brief Overview: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program.
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Funding Source: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Amount: Anticipated funding amount: $84,800,000, although the typical funding amount is $100,000-$155,000 per year
Key Deadlines: 08/20/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: 23-601: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Brief Overview: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program.
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Funding Source: DoD Rare Cancers, Concept Award
Amount: $2,380,000
Key Deadlines: 08/26/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525RCRPCA
Brief Overview: Supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. This award mechanism supports high-risk studies that have the potential to reveal entirely new avenues for investigation in rare cancers. Applications must describe how the new idea will be innovative and present as a novel course of investigation in the field of rare cancers.
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Funding Source: Hispanic Serving Institutions: Equitable Transformation in STEM Education
Amount: various: $1,000,000, and $3,000,000, $20,000,000
Key Deadlines: 08/27/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 24-578
Brief Overview: Supports capacity building at HSIs through projects focused on institutional transformation and STEM education research, as well as HSI Hubs that amplify areas of need for and importance of the HSI community. Enhance the quality of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at HSIs. Increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation rates of students pursuing associate’s or baccalaureate degrees in STEM at HSIs.
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Funding Source: Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Program – Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)
Amount: award floor: $1,500,000 and award ceiling: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: 08/29/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity package and instructions
Brief Overview: The goal of this program is to produce significant scientific breakthroughs and knowledge that will be critical steps in enabling revolutions in communication and information technology on a large scale. Please see the full Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO) package under the “Related Documents” tab for complete program details and application instructions. This NFO is being conducted in two stages: a white paper stage, and a technical application stage.
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Funding Source: FY25 Department of the Navy (DoN) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program
Amount: Award floor is $50,000, and ceiling is $600,000
Key Deadline: 08/29/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Opportunity package
Brief Overview: This NOFO is for STEM education programs and activities vital to the Department of the Navy, which is formal or informal education that is primarily focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, and mathematics disciplines. 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.
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Funding Source: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)
Amount: Approx. 20 Phase I awards of up to $300,000 & 10 Phase II awards of up to $1,500,000 each
Key Deadlines: 09/02/2025 (Phase I & II proposals)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: POSE Guidelines
Brief Overview: The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-source products, including software, hardware, models, specifications, programming languages, or data platforms that catalyze further innovation.
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Funding Source: DoD Military Burn, Patient-Centered Research Award
Amount: $3,400,000
Key Deadlines: 09/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525MBRPPCRA
Brief Overview: Seeks to bridge the gap between research, practice, and policy by developing a knowledge base that provides clinically useful findings about how interventions, clinical practices, guidelines, tools, and policies can be deployed to burn patients in an austere, resource-limited, distributed operational environment at the point of need.
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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 Deadlines09/08/2025 (prelim prop.), 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.
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Funding Source: Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact (SoS:DCI)
Amount: Contact Project Officer – (subject to availability)
Key Deadlines: 09/09/2025 and 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: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program NSF 24-597
Amount: $3,000,000 (Track-1), $2,000,000 (Track-2), $100,000 – planning grants
Key Deadlines: 09/08/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines
Brief Overview: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Proposals are requested to address any interdisciplinary or convergent research theme of national priority.
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Funding Source: ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) | NSF 24-541
Amount: Track-I – $500,000 in total budget for up to 18-24 months & Track-II – $750,000 for up to 4 years.
Key Deadlines: 09/17/2025 (discovery proposals only). Full proposal due dates forthcoming
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: View guidelines NSF 24-541
Brief Overview: Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.
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Funding Source: DoD Rare Cancers, Resource and Community Development Award
Amount: $5,600,000
Key Deadlines: 10/06/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525RCRPRCDA
Brief Overview: Supports the development of research resources and clinical or preclinical data sets that will advance the field of rare cancers research and ultimately improve outcomes for individuals with rare cancers.
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Funding Source: DoD Rare Cancers, Idea Development Award
Amount: $6,860,000
Key Deadlines: 10/06/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: HT942525RCRPIDA
Brief Overview: Applications are encouraged to include an exploratory aim or sub-aim to support any necessary discovery-driven research. Preliminary data with disease-specific rationale are required. However, these data do not necessarily need to be derived from studies of the proposed rare cancer type(s)/subtype(s) under study.
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Funding Source: Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
Amount: $2,784,000 – up to 8 to 10 awardees
Key Deadlines: 10/06/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-500
Brief Overview: Postdoctoral fellows should pursue research in directions or with tools that will diversify the expertise they gained during their doctoral studies and research. The fellowship should also enable the broadening of the fellow’s professional network. For these reasons, applicants are strongly encouraged to seek opportunities outside of their doctoral institution and their organization at the time of submission.
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Funding Source: Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
Amount: Anticipated Funding Amount: $2,784,000 ($15,000 per year)
Key Deadlines: 10/29/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: NSF 25-500
Brief Overview: The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards postdoctoral fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees to conduct an integrated program of independent research and professional development that address scientific questions within the scope of EAR’s disciplinary portfolio. The program supports researchers for a period of up to two years with fellowships that can be taken to an eligible host institution.
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Funding Source: National Science Foundation: Applied Mathematics
Amount: No award floor or ceiling advertised
Key Deadline: Full proposal opens 11/1/25 – 11/17/2025 (5pm local organization’s time)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Guidelines are available here
Brief Overview: The Applied Mathematics program supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications. Projects that additionally provide opportunities for rigorous mathematical training of junior applied mathematicians through their involvement in research are encouraged.
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Funding Source: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) | NSF 24-510
Amount: $5,000,000 to $30,000,000 (20 to 30 awards)
Key Deadlines: 11/12/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: View guidelines NSF 24-510
Brief Overview: Supports collaborative research projects and the sharing of data and other resources for the study of computational neuroscience. The Spanish Research Agency (AEI) will consider US-Spanish Research Proposals, US-Spanish Data Sharing Proposals, and Multilateral Research Proposals and Multilateral Data Sharing Proposals involving the United States and Germany, submitted to NSF in response to this solicitation. All the information required for Spanish applicants to successfully submit a proposal can be found in the annex to this solicitation available on the AEI webpage at https://www.aei.gob.es/noticias/anuncio-convocatoria-proyectos-multilaterales-estados-unidos-participacion-aei-marco-0. AEI strongly encourages Spanish applicants contact the national point of contact before the proposal is submitted.
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Funding Source: Glenn W. Bailey Foundation invites applications for STEM initiatives
Amount: from $25,000 to $50,000
Key Deadlines: rolling until 11/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
Brief Overview: GWB invites applications for seed and continuation funding for organizations seeking programmatic funding pertaining to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education at all levels. Applications are invited for the following programs – STEM Sprout grants: $25,000. STEM Stars: $25,000. STEM Scholars: $25,000. Teen Tech STEM: $50,000
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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: 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: 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: 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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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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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.