Open Submission Opportunities
Last Updated: April 22, 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: National Endowment for the Humanities
Amount: Award ceiling: $30,000
Key Deadline: May 01, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: If interested, please contact Anthony Mayo in the Office of Sponsored Programs at orsp_preaward@newark.rutgers.edu
Brief Overview: This limited competition supports institutions that have one or more faculty or staff member(s) who have been awarded an NEH Awards for Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) or an NEH Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) fellowship in federal fiscal year 2025. This program strengthens the capacity of HBCUs and TCUs to support humanities research on their campuses through funding for replacement instructors.
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Funding Source: New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research Grant Opportunities
Amounts: $50,000, $80,000, $100,000, and $200,000,
Key Deadline: 05/01/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: https://www.nj.gov/health/spinalcord/documents/fy2026-research-program-guidelines.pdf
Brief Overview: Four (4) grant programs available and (1) technique training opportunity – individual research, post-doc fellowship, graduate student fellowship, exploratory research and technique training.
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Funding Source: Environmental Research & Education Foundation
Amount: $15,000 (grants may range from $15,000 to $500,000)
Key Deadlines: May 1, 2025, or December 1, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
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.
Funding Source: DARPA Defense Sciences Office
Amount: $150,400,000 (multiple awards)
Key Deadlines (2025): May 2 & 12, June 16, 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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Title: 2026 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
Funding Source: Office of Naval Research
Amount: $170,000 million over 5 years
Key Deadline: White papers are due 5:00 PM ET on May 2, 2025, and full proposals are due on September 5, 2025, by 5:00 PM ET
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: DOD Releases FY2026 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Solicitation
Brief Overview: DoD’s MURI program addresses high-risk basic research. The program was initiated 40 years ago, and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies.
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Funding Source: NSTC Scalable Memory Architecture Program
Amounts: $33.5 million of funding opportunities
Key Deadline: May 6 (Concept Papers) and June 17th (Full proposals)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Funding Opportunity – NSTC Announces SMAP – Apr 2025.pdf
Brief Overview: Opportunity aims to develop new architectural solutions that leverage new memory technologies and advanced packaging techniques to create the “data, tools, and technology assessment capabilities needed to optimize performance, reduce latency, and improve energy efficiency in high computing data center systems and energy-constrained edge systems.”
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Funding Source: New Mexico LEEP 2025
Amount: $54,000 TO $120,000 (multiple awards)
Key Deadline: No later than May 9, 2025, at 1:59AM EST
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Zintellect – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – New Mexico LEEP 2025 – DOE-EERE-RPP-NMLEEP-2025
Brief Overview: The New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (NM LEEP) is a unique program tailored to help passionate entrepreneurs bridge the gap between groundbreaking innovation and commercialization.
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Funding Source: Department of Transportation Releases FY 2025 Safe Streets and Roads for All NOFO
Amounts: $982,260,494 for FY2025
Key Deadline: Pre-application: May 16 and Final applications: August 29, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Funding Opportunity – DOT Releases FY 2025 Safe Streets for All NOFO.pdf
Brief Overview: The program advances the National Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) and aims to realize the goal of zero roadway fatalities through a Safe System Approach. DOT will fund SS4A grants through two tracks: Track-1: Planning and Demonstration Grants, and Implementation Grants ($402 mil). Track-2: ($2,500,000 and $25,000 for 400 to 700 grants) for Planning and Demonstration Grants, which are intended to support proposals to develop, complete, or strengthen a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, or to test innovative roadway safety strategies before full-scale implementation
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Funding Source: William T. Grant Scholars Program
Amount: $350,000 is the average award
Key Deadlines: 06/1/2025 (external deadline)
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Foundation Website
Brief Overview: Our research interests in this focus area center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate ways to reduce inequality.
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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: June 12 – June 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: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Amount: No preset award floor or ceiling
Key Deadline: Opened April 16 and closes on June 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: Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies
Amount: $75,000 (floor), $1,500,000 (ceiling) (est. program funding: $12,000,000)
Key Deadline: Opens on April 18 and closes on July 8, 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: National Science Foundation
Amount: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: July 1, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards
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: Western New York BloodCare
Amount: $150,000 for 3 years ($450.000 in total)
Key Deadline: July 1, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Instructions
Brief Overview: The program invites proposals from higher education institutions (public/state controlled, private), and non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations that have a history and track record of serving the community of bleeding and clotting disorders.
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Funding Source: ARI Releases BAA for Behavioral and Social Sciences
Key Deadline: July 1, 2025 (full proposals)
Amount: No funding Floor or Ceiling – (ARI will award 100 proposals)
Description: This BAA seeks proposals that focus on novel, state-of-the-art, and multidisciplinary approaches in the behavioral and social sciences that will contribute to theory and that will benefit the Army.
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Funding Source: NSF: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
Amount: $6,000,000
Key Deadline: July 14, 2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
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: 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: Closing date is August 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: 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: August 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: 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: National Science Foundation
Amount: Award floor: $3,000,000 and award ceiling: $4,500,000
Key Deadline: Application closing date: 11/24/2025
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
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: NEH State and Impact of the Humanities
Amount: $75,000 to $150,000 across 47 open opportunities
Key Deadline: Various dates – March 12, 2025, through February 12, 2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: National Endowment for the Humanities – you must click into each individual opportunity for the details
Brief Overview: The funding opportunity offers grants of up to $150,000 for research that seeks to understand the humanities in one or more of the following categories: Humanities Education, Humanities Research, Public Humanities, Preservation and Access, and Humanities Infrastructure. Supported activities may include but are not limited to data analysis, data collection, digitization, dissemination, and planning.
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Funding Source: DHHS: New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Key Deadline: March 06, 2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Collaborative T1D Research
Brief Overview: Eligible applications: Hispanic-serving Institutions; Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The New Investigator Gateway Award in T1D Research is designed to support a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in T1D research. The Gateway program provides an opportunity for new Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs) to pursue their studies within the intellectual environment of a select number of large, ongoing collaborative research programs.
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Funding Source: FBI Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research
Amount: $2,000 relocation costs and stipend and living expenses – Stipend rates to be determined by the CFSRU Officials, $5,000 travel allowance
Key Deadline: Applications reviewed on a rolling basis
Details/Guidelines/Instructions: Zintellect – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – FBI Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit (CFSRU) – FBI-CFSRU-2025
Brief Overview: the incumbent would have the chance to develop professional skills and research abilities by using cutting-edge equipment under the supervision of CFSRU scientists. The VSP will provide opportunities to explore law enforcement and national security issues in a high-security government facility.
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Funding Source: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Amount: $250,000 (award ceiling) and Program Funding: $850,000
Key Deadline: Application due date: February 12, 2026
Details/Guidelines/Instructions:
Brief Overview: This program supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through this program, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars and practitioners using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.
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