ON THE HORIZON
NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)
Supports a wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. (Deadline varies by program)
HRSA Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)
Seeks to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty nationwide by providing low interest loans for individuals studying to be nurse faculty and loan cancelation for those who then go on to work as faculty. (May 1, 2023)
NASA MUREP Curriculum Awards (MCA)
Seeks to strengthen the research capacity of MSIs, and enable students’ capacity for research in areas of priority to NASA Mission Directorates, while engaging diverse students in authentic learning experiences through curriculum improvement and development and culturally relevant and responsive teaching, learning and support. (May 1, 2023)
NSF Advancing Innovation and Impact in Undergraduate STEM Education at Two-year Institutions of Higher Education
Supports the development and implementation of evidence-based practices that improve STEM education at two-year institutions of higher education. (May 1, 2023)
DOE Basic Energy Sciences (BES) – Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (BES-RENEW)
Aims to increase participation of groups underrepresented in BES’s research portfolio through training and research opportunities for students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty from non-R1 MSIs and HBCUs currently underrepresented in the BES portfolio (Pre-Applications: Feb. 21, 2023; Applications: May 2, 2023)
NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program
Offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit. (May 2, 2023)
NARA Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
Supports projects that promote access to America’s historical records to encourage understanding of our democracy, history, and culture. (May 3, 2023)
USDA Equipment Grants Program (EGP)
Serves to increase access to shared-use special purpose equipment/instruments for fundamental and applied research for use in the food and agricultural sciences programs at institutions of higher education. (May 3, 2023)
NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Supports the design and implementation of research infrastructure — including equipment, cyberinfrastructure, large-scale datasets and personnel — whose total project costs exceed NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation program but are under $20 million. (May 5, 2023)
USDA Distance Education Grants Program for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (DEG)
Seeks to strengthen the capacity of Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas to carry out resident instruction, curriculum, and teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences through distance education technology. (May 5, 2023)
NSF Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers
Supports high-risk, high-payoff research centers focused on advancing engineered systems technology and education through multidisciplinary, cross-sector partnerships. (May 8, 2023)
NEH Humanities Initiatives
Seeks to strengthen the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education by developing new humanities programs, resources (including those in digital format), or courses, or by enhancing existing ones. (May 9, 2023)
NSF Global Centers
An ambitious new program to fund international, interdisciplinary collaborative research centers that will apply best practices of broadening participation and community engagement to develop use-inspired research on climate change and clean energy. (May 10, 2023)
NSF IUSE/PFE: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED): Two-Year Track
Seeks to develop radically new approaches among multiple two-year institutions to expand the path to engineering and engineering technology four-year programs from two-year institutions with programs such as pre-engineering, engineering and engineering technology. (May 10, 2023)
DOD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) – AFOSR, AMC, ONR
Seeks to To improve the capabilities of US IHEs to conduct research and to educate scientists and engineers in areas important to national defense, by providing funds for the acquisition of research equipment or instrumentation. (May 12, 2023)
ED International Research and Studies Program (IRS)
Provides grants to public and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals, to conduct research, studies, or surveys, or to develop specialized instructional materials, to improve and strengthen instruction and enrollment in modern foreign languages and related area studies. (May 12, 2023)
USDA NIFA Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas Agriculture and Food Science Facilities and Equipment Program for Insular Areas
Aims to promote and strengthen the ability of eligible institutions in the Insular Areas to carry out education within the food, agricultural and natural resource sciences. (May 15, 2023)
NEH Cultural and Community Resilience
Supports community-based efforts to mitigate climate change and COVID-19 pandemic impacts, safeguard cultural resources, and foster cultural resilience through identifying, documenting, and/or collecting cultural heritage and community experience. (May 16, 2023)
NEH Preservation and Access Education and Training
Supports training programs that develop knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections. (May 16, 2023)
NEH Research and Development
Supports projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. (May 16, 2023)
NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants: Capital Projects
Supports the purchase, design, construction, restoration, or renovation of buildings or sites of national, historical, architectural, or cultural significance and facilities that house humanities collections or are used for humanities activities. Projects are financed through a combination of federal matching funds and related fundraising from nonfederal third parties. (May 17, 2023)
DOL ETA Workforce Pathways for Youth
Seeks to increase alignment between the workforce development system, schools, and OST programs and leverage the roles, responsibilities, resources, and expertise of these three entities in order to expand work-based learning opportunities, job training and career pathways for youth living in rural areas. (May 19, 2023)
DOC NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I
Seeks to strengthen the role of innovative small business concerns (SBCs) in Federally-funded research or research and development (R/R&D). (May 22, 2023)
ED Title III Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP)
Provides grants to eligible institutions of higher education (IHEs) to help them become self-sufficient and expand their capacity to serve low-income students by providing funds to improve and strengthen the institution’s academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability. (May 22, 2023)
ED Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program
Provides grants for planning, developing, and carrying out projects to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages in the United States. (May 22, 2023)
NSF Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
Seeks to build capacity and infrastructure for translational research at IHEs and to enhance their role in regional innovation ecosystems. In addition, this program seeks to effectively train graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in translational research, benefiting them across a range of career options. (May 23, 2023)
HRSA Health Careers Opportunity Program: The National HCOP Academies
Seeks to assist students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter and successfully complete health profession schools. (May 24, 2023)
NSF Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity
Seeks to broaden participation in innovation ecosystems that advance emerging technologies (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics) by supporting capacity-building efforts at institutions of higher education (IHEs) interested in growing external partnerships. (May 25, 2023)
NIH P Series and T Series Awards (all submissions)
P series grants are large, multi-project efforts that generally include a diverse array of research activities. T series grants provide individual research training opportunities (including international) to trainees at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. (May 25; Sept. 25; Jan. 25)
ED Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program
Provides grants to eligible IHEs to enable them to improve and expand their capacity to serve Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander students. (May 30, 2023)
ED Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP)
Designed to effect long-range improvement in science and engineering education at predominantly minority institutions and to increase the participation of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into scientific and technological careers. (May 30, 2023)
NSF CREST HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (HBCU-RISE)
Supports the expansion of institutional research capacity as well as the successful training of doctoral students, especially those from groups underrepresented in STEM at HBCUs. (May 30, 2023)
NIH R Series and K Series Awards (new submissions)
New submissions under various NIH mechanisms for supporting investigator-led research projects. (Jun.; Oct.; Feb., varies by series)
ED Title V Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program (DHSI)
Provides grants to assist HSIs to expand educational opportunities for, and improve the attainment of, Hispanic students. A comment draft of this solicitation was posted in the Federal Register on March 23. The comment period closes April 24, and the final solicitation is expected to be posted sometime following that date, possibly late April or early May, with a 60-day application window. (Projected June – July TBD)
NSF Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)
Seeks to strengthen the nation’s scientific competitiveness by increasing the number of well-prepared U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents who pursue careers in the mathematical sciences, be they in academia, government, or industry. (June 6, 2023)
NARA NHPRC-Mellon Planning Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions
Provides planning grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History and Ethnic Studies, with an overarching goal to broaden participation in the production and publication of historical and scholarly digital editions. (June 7, 2023)
DOD AFOSR National Science Portal Pilot (NSP)
Seeks to accelerate DoD critical scientific areas and flood the United States with diverse STEM talent by capitalizing on the demonstrated excellence of Historically Black Colleges and Universities/ Minority Serving Institutions/ Tribal Colleges (HBCU/MSI/TCs) and building their research capacity in critical research areas. (June 12, 2023)
NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program (IUCRC)
Catalyzes breakthrough pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies. (June 14, 2023)
NEH Digital Projects for the Public
Supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments. (June 14, 2023)
NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG)
Supports innovative, experimental, and/or computationally challenging digital projects leading to work that can scale to enhance scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. (June 15, 2023)
AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program
Supports innovative patient-centered outcomes research small pilot projects in Learning Health Systems (LHS) that evaluate the outcomes of embedded research and evaluate the processes by which embedded research can enhance impact, stakeholder engagement, and other health system-identified outcomes of interest. (June 19, 2023)
NSF Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)
Projects funded by this program will provide an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution similar to the Internet — transforming our ability to unlock actionable insights from data by semantically linking information about related entities. (June 20, 2023)
NIH Research Enhancement Award (R15) (all submissions)
Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation’s research scientists but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. (Jun. 25; Oct. 25; Feb. 25)
NSF Centers for Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES)
Supports planning, conference and EAGER proposals to catalyze ideas that will potentially inform or serve as the basis for a larger, center-scale program to develop evidence-based solutions that address fundamental quality-of-life issues, such as those involving the environment, extreme weather and sustainability; workforce and the economy; equity and access to opportunities; and well-being. (June 26, 2023)
NSF Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI)
Aims to significantly broaden participation in AI research, education, and workforce development through capacity development projects and through partnerships within the National AI Research Institutes ecosystem. (June 26, 2023)
NSF Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
Aims to a) broaden participation by expanding the types of institutions that submit proposals to BIO, and b) expand opportunities to groups underrepresented in the biological sciences. (June 30, 2023)
NIH R Series and K Series Awards (resubmissions)
Resubmissions under various NIH mechanisms for supporting investigator-led research projects. (Jul.; Nov.; Mar., varies by series)
DOD ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. (July 7, 2023)
NSF Synthesis Center for Molecular and Cellular Sciences (SCMCS)
Seeks to establish a Center that will advance our ability to explain and predict complex molecular and cellular phenomena through innovative synthesis and integration of available biological data and related scientific knowledge. (July 7, 2023)
USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Seeks creative and visionary applications that take a systems approach for projects are expected to significantly improve the supply of affordable, safe, nutritious, and accessible agricultural products, while fostering economic development and rural prosperity in America. (July 13, 2023)
NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Supports projects that provide an essential underpinning for scholarship, education, and public engagement in the humanities. (July 18, 2023)
NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases 1 and 2 for the 2022 Cohort – Tracks H, I, J
Addresses national-scale societal challenges through use-inspired convergence research. (LOI: June 1, 2022; Phase 1 Proposals: July 20, 2022)
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)
Funds the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure to support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. (July 21, 2023)
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
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. (July 26, 2023)
NIH SBIR/STTR Awards
Offers small business entrepreneurs a chance to obtain non-dilutive funding for early-stage research and development. (Sep. 5; Jan. 5; Apr. 5)
NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure
Invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Learning and workforce development (LWD) in cyberinfrastructure is explicitly addressed in the program. (Sept. 11, 2023)
NSF Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT)
Supports experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields (e.g., advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors, and microelectronics). (Sept. 14, 2023)
NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure/NEH Documenting Endangered Languages
Supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages. (Sept. 15, 2023)
NSF/NIH Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences
Supports fundamental research in mathematics and statistics necessary to answer questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. (Sept. 18, 2023)
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative
Supports research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. (Sept. 18, 2023)
NEH Summer Stipends
Seek to stimulate new research and publication in the humanities. (Sept. 20, 2023)
NSF International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
Supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. (Sept. 26, 2023) |