Posted September 3, 2025 by Dan Moser
The Office of Research and Innovation is introducing a comprehensive restructuring of its internal funding opportunities. The updated portfolio of opportunities aims to better meet the needs of the UNL community, streamline R&I internal funding offerings and provide more clarity and consistency for faculty engaging in these competitions.
R&I’s updated portfolio of internal funding opportunities offers new Collaboration Grants, Rapid Response Grants and Research and Innovation Grants; maintains R&I’s popular Biomedical Research Seed Grants, Revision Grants, and Book Fellowship and Manuscript Workshop Program; and combines all former visiting scholar opportunities into one Invited Scholar Grants program.
R&I’s new Internal Funding Opportunities website provides complete details about all new and current internal funding programs, including updated Requests for Proposals for all competitions.
In addition to several programs with rolling deadlines, three competitions have upcoming deadlines in the fall semester:
- Biomedical Research Seed Grants: Required notices of intent to submit are due Sept. 17, and proposals are due Oct. 1.
- Book Fellowship and Manuscript Workshop Program: Proposals are due Oct. 1.
- Research and Innovation Grants: Proposals are due Oct. 1.
The revamped internal funding competitions have been informed by a series of recent activities that R&I undertook to gain insight on the needs of the UNL community related to internal funding, including a series of conversations with UNL faculty and administrators and research on peer institutions’ internal funding programs.
Several R&I internal funding programs will use an internal peer review process, which relies on volunteer UNL faculty to serve as reviewers. To learn more about the peer review process or to volunteer to serve as a reviewer, visit our new peer reviewer volunteer webpage.
For more information about the new internal funding opportunities being offered, visit the Internal Funding Opportunities website.
For questions, contact Matthew Dwyer, senior research development program coordinator, 402-472-1661.
