Natural, Fundamental and Applied Sciences & Mathematics
Last Updated: June 3, 2026
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: NSF 26-508 – TechAccess: AI-Ready America
Amount: $1M/year for three years, with the possibility of one additional year of support
Key Deadline: 06/16/2026 (LOI) – 07/16/2026 (full proposal)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: TechAccess: AI‑Ready America is a national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works—so local and state priorities can lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans. The program also emphasizes practical implementation through hands‑on assistance and workforce upskilling, including experiential learning such as internships, project‑based work, and apprenticeships, to ensure stakeholders can effectively apply and innovate with AI. Limit to one proposal per institution – please contact Anthony Mayo in the Office of Sponsored Programs if interested.
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Funding Source: Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) – NSF 20-544
Amount: Expeditions projects with total budgets of up to $15,000,000 for a duration of seven years will be supported.
Key Deadline: 06/22/2026 for preliminary proposals, which are required for an invitation to submit a full Expeditions proposal
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to come together within or across departments or institutions to combine their creative talents in the identification of compelling, transformative research agendas that look ahead by at least a decade and promise disruptive innovations in computer and information science and engineering for many years to come. An individual may participate in no more than one preliminary and if invited, one full Expeditions proposal per competition as PI, co- PI, or senior/key personnel.
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Funding Source: Strengthening Institutions Program FY 2026 Competition – Funding Opportunity number: ED-GRANT-26-025
Amount: Award floor: $3,000,000 and award ceiling: $350,000,000
Key Deadline: 06/23/2026 no later than 11:59:59
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The purpose of SIP is to provide assistance to eligible institutions of higher education to improve their academic programs, institutional management, and fiscal stability in order to increase their self-sufficiency.
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Funding Source: Mathers Foundation invites applications for grant awards program
Amount: $700,000 over 3 years
Key Deadline: 06/30/2026 and then a second round 07/17/2026 – 2 separate opportunities
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Mathers Foundation invites applications for grant awards program
Brief Overview: Application involves eligibility, registration, LOI application and formal proposal. The foundation invites application for the Mathers Grant Awards Program, which supports early-stage discoveries that drive innovation and lay the groundwork for future medical breakthroughs. Research areas the foundation supports include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience. Those eligible for funding include institutions that directly support their own investigators, principal investigators with their own fully equipped labs, all levels of professorship, and collaborative research projects with other U.S.-based organizations.
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Funding Source: NSF 26-503: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Education Innovation and Scholarship for Service
Amount: Anticipated Funding Amount: $300,000 to $2,500,000 across 25 projects
Key Deadline: (Scholarship): 07/21/2026 & 07/21/2027 or (Innovation Track): 04/03/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The government and the nation face a talent shortfall in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS) program welcomes proposals that address AI and cybersecurity education and workforce development. CyberAI refers to using AI in cybersecurity as well as providing security and resilience for AI systems. The Scholarship Track provides funding to establish, or to continue, scholarship for service programs with integrated AI and cybersecurity components (CyberAI). The Innovation Track supports projects that enhance preparation of AI and/or cybersecurity professionals. Organizational limits: There is no restriction for the Innovation Track; however, for the Scholarship Track, each performing organization is limited to one (1) proposal submitted for the same competition date. If interested, please contact Anthony Mayo in ORSP
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Funding Source: Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) | NSF 23-568
Amount: Up to 8 million for all programs per year. Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.
Key Deadline: 07/06/2026 – Human Networks and Data Science & 08/06/2026 – Infrastructure (HNDS-I) submissions
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Two tracks – The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, or heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual or group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that provide data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security.
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Funding Source: Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Excellence in Research (HBCU-EiR): NSF 23-598
Amount: up to $28,000,000 available for the program that will support 30 to 35 awards
Key Deadline: 07/09/2026 (LOI) & full proposals 10/20/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: NSF has a mandate to broaden participation in science and engineering, as articulated and reaffirmed in law since 1950. Congress has charged NSF to “develop intellectual capital, both people and ideas, with particular emphasis on groups and regions that traditionally have not participated fully in science, mathematics, and engineering.” Proposals may only be submitted by accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that have faculty members who conduct research in science and/or engineering and/or STEM education.
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Funding Source: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) – NSF 23-510
Amount: $61,000,000 available for 135 programs
Key Deadline: 07/15/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments. The IUSE: EDU is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open to application from all institutions of higher education and associated organizations.
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Funding Source: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | NSF 22-586
Amount: Up to $250,000,000 for 500 awards/annually
Key Deadline: 07/22/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. The CAREER program embodies NSF’s commitment to encourage faculty and academic institutions to value and support the integration of research and education. Successful Principal Investigators will propose creative, effective research and education plans, developed within the context of the mission, goals, and resources of their organizations, while building a firm foundation for a lifetime of contributions to research, education, and their integration.
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Funding Source: Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS) NSF 25-544
Amount: $500,000 (2 years nonrenewable), 9 million for 3 years (potentially renewable) and 10 to 30 million for up to 5 years (renewable)
Key Deadline: 07/28/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports national-scale data infrastructure that powers open, data-intensive and AI-driven research and education by funding the development, expansion and planning of integrated systems and services for the scientific community. Through this solicitation, the IDSS program is accepting proposals for three categories of projects:
- Category I. Development, deployment, and operation of novel national-scale integrated data systems.
- Category II. Transition of established smaller scale, regional, pilot, or prototype data-focused systems and services to national-scale production/operational quality/level.
- Category III. Planning grants for future potential development/deployment or transition/enhancement IDSS projects.
- If interested, please contact Anthony Mayo in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs as an organization may submit only one proposal as lead institution for each of Category I and Category II.
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Funding Source: Biological Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (BA-SR) | NSF 23-503
Amount: $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 for 20 to 40 awards & typical award ranges from $200,000-$600,000 total budget, inclusive of indirect costs
Key Deadline: 07/20/26 to 07/30/26
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports field, laboratory and computational research on human and nonhuman primate adaptation, variation and evolution to advance knowledge about human origins and the dynamics between biology and culture. If a researcher is unsure whether the Biological Anthropology program is appropriate for a proposal topic, they are encouraged to email a one-page summary of their project to the program officer(s) prior to proposal submission.
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Funding Source: Developmental Sciences (DS) | NSF 24-544
Amount: $100,000 and $200,000 annually
Key Deadline: 07/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Developmental Sciences Award supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for individuals to live productive lives as members of society.
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Funding Source: Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD 20-1260
Amount: $50,000
Key Deadline: 08/04/2026 & 02/02/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The primary aim of the Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program is to foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whole. In addition, the program complements the Workforce Program in the Mathematical Sciences in its goal to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. based individuals who successfully pursue careers in the mathematical sciences and in other professions in which expertise in the mathematical sciences plays an increasingly important role.
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Funding Source: Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2) – NSF 24-571
Amount: up to $800,000 per award, with $3M of funding from NSF and $3M from DOE – per year
Key Deadline: 08/11/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports research focused on correctness as it applies to scientific computing tools and tool chains, spanning low-level libraries through complex multi-physics simulations and emerging scientific workflows. An investigator may participate as PI, co-PI, or Senior/Key Personnel in no more than two (2) proposals submitted in response to this solicitation, per deadline.
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Funding Source: Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) – NSF 23-536
Amount: $15,000,000
Key Deadline: 08/13/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports both the creation of a resource and evaluation center for the national S-STEM community and research hubs to study the conditions for the success of low-income undergraduate and graduate STEM students. Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American innovation economy if they so desire. A maximum of $3 million (up to $3 million over a period of up to five years per S-STEM-Hub) will be awarded to support up to five (5) S-STEM-Hubs for a total investment of $15 million.
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Funding Source: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – NSF 23-601
Amount: typical funding amounts: $1,00,000 – $155,000 up to $84,800,000
Key Deadline: 08/19/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports intensive research by undergraduate students in any NSF-funded area of research. REU Sites engage a cohort of students in research projects related to a theme. REU Supplements engage students in research related to a new or ongoing NSF research award. NSF estimates 1300 to 1350 awards from this program
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Funding Source: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) | NSF 24-598
Amount: $100 million for awards, with $50 million in each fiscal year
Key Deadline: 09/01/2026 (preliminary proposal) & 02/08/2027 (full proposal by invitation)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: NSF-supported science and engineering research increasingly relies on cutting-edge infrastructure. With its Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program and Major Multi-user Facilities (“Major Facilities”) projects, NSF supports infrastructure projects at the lower and higher range of infrastructure project costs, Foundation-wide, across science and engineering research disciplines. The Foundation-wide Mid-scale Research Infrastructure opportunity is intended to provide NSF with an agile, Foundation-wide process to fund experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range between MRI and Major Multi-user Facilities.
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Funding Source: Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) – NSF 26-506
Amount: from $300,000 to $1,500,000 per award
Key Deadline: 09/01/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: This solicitation seeks three types of proposals, allowing teams to propose specific activities to: 1) scope and plan the establishment of an OSE, 2) establish and expand a sustainable OSE based on a robust, promising open-source product that meets an emergent societal or national need, and 3) improve the safety, security, and privacy of an existing OSE and its products. 40 to 60awards are available for Track 1, and 30 awards are available for Track 2, and 10 awards are available for Track 3.
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Rolling Funding Source: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Foundation invites applications for Cure LGS 365 Research Grants Program – Interdisciplinary Opportunity
Amount: $25,000, $50,000 and $75,000
Key Deadline: 09/02/2026 rolling
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: LGS Foundation
Brief Overview: The foundation accepts unsolicited proposals year-round through the Cure LGS 365 Research Grants Program to seed new basic, translational, and clinical research projects.
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Funding Source: IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) | NSF 24-564
Amount: Annual amounts are: $75,000, $1,000,000, $1,500,000, $2,000,000 and $2,500,000 depending on the track selected
Key Deadline: 09/08/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Guidelines
Brief Overview: This program supports major changes to the way first-year engineering students are taught that give them the technical and professional skills they need to solve tough problems in society. Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) and the Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) frameworks are both in line with these projects. Proposals that deal with topics that are becoming more important to the whole country, such as advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, microelectronics and semiconductors, net zero technologies, sustainability, systems engineering, and quantum engineering are encouraged.
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Funding Source: A Science of Science Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SoS:BIO) | NSF 23-569
Amount: prizes from $100,000 to $250,000 for up to 4 years
Key Deadline: 09/09/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports the development of theories, models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can inform the science of science, science policy, public outcomes and the advancement of the scientific enterprise, with a focus on the biomedical sciences. Approximately 400 to 600 awards will be given, depending upon the availability of funds.
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Funding Source: Computer and Information Science and Engineering : Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) | NSF 25-543
Amount: from $150,000 to $250,000
Key Deadline: 09/10/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports foundational and interdisciplinary research across all aspects of computing, communication and information science and engineering to advance the future of technology, systems and human-centered innovation.
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Funding Source: National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)-NSF 25-540
Amount: up to $1,200,000 for NSF TTP-T proposals, and $2,000,000 for NSF TTP-P proposals
Key Deadline: 09/15/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The NSF TTP program was developed to identify and support use-inspired research and translational activities enabling a continuum from foundational research to practice, and also to develop partnerships and collaborations between institutions of higher education and other entities, which promote and advance the education and training of students and postdoctoral researchers, encouraging the participation of all Americans in STEM including innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Funding Source: Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences (DMS/NIGMS) | NSF 22-600
Amount: ranges from $6,000 to $1,200,000 for 15 to 25 awards
Key Deadline: 09/18/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports research in mathematics and statistics necessary to answer important questions in biological and biomedical sciences. The joint DMS/NIGMS initiative offers two submission tracks: Track 1 – for projects with a total budget of up to $600,000 for an award duration of 3 years and Track 2 – for projects with a total budget of up to $1,200,000 for an award duration of 3-4 years.
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Funding Source: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) | NSF 26-504
Amount: $110,000 per year (Stipend $85,000 and training allowance $25,000)
Key Deadline: 09/29/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports postdoctoral fellowships that train early-career scientists to apply AI to biological research, advancing biotechnology innovation while preparing future leaders at the intersection of AI and biology. The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) will make awards for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) to recent doctoral degree recipients, for proposals with a research and training focus at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Sciences to strengthen and safeguard Biotechnology Innovations. While there are no organizational limits, Individuals may submit only one fellowship proposal to the Postdoctoral Fellowships in a Biology program per year per PI and may submit to the program no more than twice in total. If interested, please contact Anthony Mayo in ORSP for additional details.
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Funding Source: Algebra and Number Theory | PD 20-1264
Amount: Up to $50,000
Key Deadline: 10/09/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports research in algebra, algebraic and arithmetic geometry, number theory, representation theory and related topics. The Algebra and Number Theory program also provides support for conferences, workshops, summer/winter schools, and similar activities.
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Funding Source: Mathematical Biology | PD 22-7334
Amount: Not listed – See prior funded proposals
Key Deadline: 10/14/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in all areas of mathematical sciences with relevance to the biological sciences. Supports research in areas of applied and computational mathematics relevant to the biological and life sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology.
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Funding Source: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | NSF 25-547
Amount: $37,000 stipend and $16,000 cost of education – previously funded proposals
Key Deadline: 11/10/26–11/14/26 – (must confirm with your project area) – section C Due Dates
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: For FY2026, NSF GRFP will refocus on its original statutory and programmatic intent to affect students at the beginning of their STEM graduate training and to award fellowships “to the applicants in such a manner as will tend to result in a wide distribution of scholarships and fellowships throughout the United States.” 42 USC §1869(a). To achieve this goal, NSF GRFP will focus on the discovery and recruitment of individuals who demonstrate outstanding potential in STEM graduate study and will accept applications from undergraduate seniors in bachelor’s degree programs, bachelor’s degree-holders with no prior enrollment in any graduate degree program, individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs, and first-year graduate students in their first graduate degree program.
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Amount: $50,000 each for up to 2 months (50- planning awards), $300,000 each for 1 year (20 developmental awards)
Key Deadline: 11/18/2026 – two submission opportunities
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) and Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) announced a new funding opportunity titled the Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergency and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS Foundry) program. The purpose of the FINDERS Foundry program is to bring together interdisciplinary K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education stakeholders, including students and their families, technologists, teachers, and researchers, to advance innovation in STEM education through collaborative, community-driven work, and give students early opportunities to engage with skills needed to pursue careers in STEM. LIMITS: An organization may submit only one Planning proposal and, if awarded a Planning award, one Development proposal. Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or co-PI: 1 and a PI or co-PI may submit only one Planning proposal and, if awarded a Planning award, one development proposal. The receipt of a Planning award does not guarantee a development award. The Development proposal should be submitted by a PI, or other member of the leadership team of the Planning award. Please contact Anthony Mayo in ORSP if interested.
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Funding Source: Computational Mathematics | PD 16-1271
Amount: Up to $50,000 – Browse previously funded projects
Key Deadline: 12/01/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports mathematical research in areas where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing analysis, development, and implementation of theoretically justified and efficient algorithms. The combination of these elements resulting in innovative computational methods is a hallmark of the program. Proposals ranging from single investigators to interdisciplinary team projects that not only create and analyze new computational mathematics techniques but also implement them to model, study, and solve important application problems are strongly encouraged, as is providing opportunities for rigorous mathematical training of junior computational mathematicians through research involvement.
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Funding Source: Statistics | PD 18-1269
Amount: Not listed – Browse previously funded projects
Key Deadline: 12/15/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the basis for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The Program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects.
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Funding Source: Food Allergy Fund invites applications for innovative research
Amount: $75,000, $150,000, and $250,000
Key Deadline: rolling until 12/30/2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Funding For Research — Food Allergy Fund
Brief Overview: The fund invites applications for the Food Allergy Fund Innovators Research Grants program. On a rolling basis, FAF will award grants to the researcher or team of researchers who demonstrate the most innovative approach to identifying what causes food allergies or an improved treatment.
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Funding Source: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | NSF 22-603
Amount: Varies across disciplines – See previously funded projects
Key Deadline: 03/01/2027
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The MCA program offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the mid-career stage (see restrictions under Additional Eligibility Information) to substantively enhance and advance their research program and career trajectory. Mid-career scientists are at a critical career transition stage where they need to advance their research programs to ensure long-term productivity and creativity but are often constrained by service, teaching, or other activities that limit the amount of time devoted to research. Pending availability of funding. Varies across disciplinary research programs.
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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: 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.
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ROLLLING – Funding Source: Tool Development for Molecular and Cell Biology (Tools4Cells) – NSF 24-539
Amount: Up to $110,000,000 for an estimated 120 awards – view previously funded projects
Key Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports development of tools and methods that help manipulate, measure or analyze critical cellular traits or functions — enabling new research areas in cell biology. Such projects will be evaluated based on the importance of the underlying biological question or hypothesis and the extent to which the proposed tool or method enhances the ability of scientists to study cells or cellular function in relation to that question.
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ROLLLING – Funding Source: Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) | NSF 23-578
Amount: Up to $16,000,000 to $18,000,000 for 20 – 40 awards
Key Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research Program (Innovation) supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas: Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods.
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ROLLLING – Funding Source: Cellular and Biochemical Engineering | PD 23-1491
Amount: Not listed – Applicants invited to view previously funded projects for a typical budget submission.
Key Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The Cellular and Biochemical Engineering program supports fundamental engineering research that advances understanding of cellular and biomolecular processes. CBE-funded research may lead to the development of enabling technology for advanced biomanufacturing of therapeutic cells, biochemicals, and biopharmaceuticals, and for other biotechnology industries.
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ROLLLING – Funding Source: Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP) | NSF 23-612
Amount: Not listed – Interested Investigators may browse budgets of previously funded projects
Key Deadline: Full proposals accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: Supports fundamental materials research and education in the following areas: biomaterials, ceramics, condensed matter physics, electronic and photonic materials, metals and metallic nanostructures, polymers, and solid state and materials chemistry. Investigators are advised that the dates from April 15th to June 15th should, optimally, be avoided for submissions.
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ROLLLING – Funding Source: Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) | PD 24-1340
Amount: Up to $350,000, else prior approval – previously funded projects
Key Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Application Details
Brief Overview: The NSF Engineering Directorate (ENG) has launched a multi-year initiative, the Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support an innovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st century. Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) refers to the formal and informal processes and value systems by which people become engineers.
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