Natural and Applied Sciences & Mathematics
Last Updated: July 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: 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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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: Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers
Amount: New institutional awards of up to $10,000,000
Key Deadline: 08/07/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers – Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Brief Overview: This is a new institutional research and training opportunity that will help institutions bridge the gaps between fields that will have important roles to play in understanding the impacts of climate change on human health and diminishing their effects. This grant will support new discoveries toward defining the health impacts of climate change, developing potential interventions, translating discovery science into practical application, and outward-facing work that can help public understanding of Climate + Health or strengthen connections between research and communities whose health has been harmed by climate change
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Funding Source: The Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome
Grant Program 2025
Amount: $90,000
Key Deadline: 08/08/2025 (LOI)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
Brief Overview: The Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome Foundation, in collaboration with the Orphan Disease Center, is seeking proposals to advance research related to the Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome. We are looking for applications that aim to further progress our understanding of the disease.
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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: PKD Foundation invites applications for polycystic kidney disease research
Amount: $120,000
Key Deadline: 08/11/2025 (pre-applications) and 01/12/2026 (full application)
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: Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation issues RFP for women’s health in midlife
Amount: No specific dollar amount is defined
Key Deadline: 08/15/2025 (LOI) and 10/15/2025 (Proposal)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
Brief Overview: The foundation has issued an RFP for a Clinical Center of Excellence (CCE) to effectively treat women suffering from perimenopause, menopause, and other health conditions commonly present for women in midlife. The center must have the capacity to treat patients in-person (via a physical brick-and-mortar location) and remotely (via telehealth tools). The center should strive to be a flagship of evidence-based, patient-centered clinical care, leading-edge health innovation, and effective training of current (and future) health providers.
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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: National Eczema Association invites applications for Childhood Eczema Challenge Grant
Amount: $50,000
Key Deadline: 8/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Grant Details and Eligibility Criteria | National Eczema Association
Brief Overview: The grant program aims to stimulate early and mid-career scientists as they build and sustain careers as research investigators and future thought leaders. Research proposals should address at least one of the following priorities related to pediatric eczema: eczema heterogeneity and novel insights, innovations in clinical practice and care; understanding and alleviating disease burden; and eczema prevention.
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Funding Source: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation invites applications for Fellowship Award
Amount: $300,000
Key Deadline: 08/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Damon Runyon Fellowship Award Overview | Damon Runyon
Brief Overview: The Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention including molecular approaches to cancer prevention for inherited cancers.
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Funding Source: DARPA Defense Sciences Office
Amount: $150,400,000 (multiple awards and submission date)
Key Deadlines (2025): 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: Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research invites applications for seed grants
Amount: $75,000
Key Deadline: 08/15/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Seed Grant Program – Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Brief Overview: Seed Funding: The foundation invites applications for its Seed Grant program. Through the program, grants will be awarded to support basic and clinical scientists and investigators. The program funds research in the following areas: treatment/therapy, patient care, early diagnosis, detection, cancer biology, basic science, prevention/metabolism, and research core facilities.
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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: ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation invites applications for clinical parenteral and enteral nutrition research
Amount: $10,000, $20,000 and $25,000 – three types of awards.
Key Deadline: 08/25/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Apply for Grants – Rhoads Research Foundation
Brief Overview: The foundation invites applications for its grants program. Grants of will be awarded to support early-stage career investigators with a PhD, MD or PharmD that have more advanced academic training, including senior postdoctoral fellows and those with academic faculty appointments at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level. Although funds for a second year are not guaranteed, the investigator may apply for a second year of funding.
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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: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation invites proposals for cancer research
Amount: Budget limit not listed
Key Deadline: 08/31/2025 and 12/15/2025 – two submission opportunities
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: 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: Burroughs Wellcome Fund invites applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Amount: $560,000 over 5 years
Key Deadline: 09/02/2025 (LOI) and 11/24/2025 (full proposal)
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: 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: NSF 25-540: National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)
Amount: $30,000,000
Key Deadline: 09/16/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | NSF – National Science Foundation
Brief Overview: The NSF Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) program focuses on real-world applications of all areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Proposers can tailor their research and/or innovation activities to solve specific problems faced by consumers, industries, and/or governments. Successful outcomes of NSF TTP projects are varied and may include, but are not limited to: accelerated product, process or service maturation; open-source projects; standards setting; patents; the realization of pre-commercial or commercial products, processes or services; and startup or small business formation.
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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: Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics
Amount: $3,000
Key Deadline: 09/30/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Postdoctor
Brief Overview: Burroughs Wellcome Fund supports teaching professionals in their efforts to provide quality hands-on, inquiry-based activities for their students. The Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics awards enhance the excitement for STEM in the classroom by providing funds for materials, equipment, and supplies related to the implementation of high-quality curriculum and activities in the classroom.
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Funding Source: ONR Releases FY 2026 HBCU/MI Program
Amount: $450,000 – 525,000
Key Deadlines: White papers are required (9/19/2025) and full proposals (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: 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.
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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.