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Current Funding Opportunities

The following is a list of current opportunities populated by the Office of Research and Innovation’s Funding Announcements. Funding Announcements is a weekly list of funding opportunities that aims to keep the UNL community informed of limited submission competitions, external funding opportunities, and internal funding opportunities. If you would like to subscribe to Funding Announcements, please contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu), funding opportunity coordinator.

Agriculture and Rural Development

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

ASPCA Research Grants
https://www.aspcapro.org/grant/2025/03/17/2025-aspca-research-grants?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks high-quality research across a variety of disciplines and methods that has clear potential to benefit animals, either directly or through effecting systems-level change.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Crop-Animal Systems Research
https://foundationfar.org/grants-funding/opportunities/crop-animal-systems-research-rfa/
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/10/2025

This opportunity supports innovative and transformative research that explores crop-animal interconnections to advance both crop and animal systems.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Dairy Health, Efficiency & Resource Dynamics Initiative
https://foundationfar.org/news/ffar-dmi-zoetis-call-for-research-proposals-to-study-connection-between-dairy-cow-health-economics-the-environment/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance research that will enable U.S. Dairy and allied industries to better understand and use innovations to support improved animal health/management and welfare, economic viability, and environmental outcomes.

Department of Agriculture

Emerging Markets Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358614
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop, maintain, or expand markets for exports of United States agricultural commodities and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and emerging markets.

Department of Agriculture

Farmers Market Promotion Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358899
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development, coordination, and expansion of direct producer-to-consumer markets to increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products.

Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Fellowship in Plant Science Research
https://www.osgf.org/fellowships/plant-science-research
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide advanced graduate students, post-docs, and beginning faculty, working in organismal plant biology, with an extended stay of 2 – 5 weeks on the Oak Spring estate to undertake independent writing and thinking, away from the day-to-day demands of their other responsibilities.

Department of Agriculture

Local Food Promotion Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358907
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food business enterprises that engage as intermediaries in indirect producer-to-consumer marketing to increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products.

Department of Agriculture

Regional Food System Partnerships
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358904
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

This program seeks to support partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local and regional food systems.

Department of Agriculture

Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358615?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=9c07263d3b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_01_06_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-9c07263d3b-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/06/2025

This opportunity is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops.

Arts and Humanities

National Archives and Records Administration

Archival Projects
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/archival.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/05/2025

This opportunity seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. They welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day.

Vilcek Foundation

Creative Promise in Fashion and Design and Fashion and Culture
https://vilcek.org/prizes/vilcek-prizes-for-creative-promise/creative-promise-prizes-arts/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support young, immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.

Department of the Interior

Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund – Preservation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358913
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This program supports recovery and related expenses for historic and cultural resources in areas impacted by natural disasters that have received a major disaster declaration pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act).

National Geographic Society

Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/grants-and-investments/rfp-enduring-impacts-archaeology-of-sustainability/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates.

J.M Kaplan Fund and Hawthornden Foundation

Furthermore Nonfiction Book Publishing
https://furthermore.org/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks work that will appeal to an informed general audience and give evidence of high standards in writing, design, and production. Funding may be applied to specific publication components such as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

This opportunity supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

Queer Art

Illuminations Grant
https://www.queer-art.org/illuminations-grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity aims to shed light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provide critical support to their continuing work.

National Association of Music Merchants Foundation

Music Research Grants
https://www.nammfoundation.org/global-grantmaking
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

This opportunity seeks research that improves practices and increases public/private resources for music education, music creation, and workforce development in the United States.

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Garden of American Heroes: Statues
https://www.neh.gov/program/national-garden-american-heroes-statues
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This program supports the design and creation of statues of historical figures from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific, economic, and political heritage.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Preservation and Access Education and Training
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

This opportunity supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.neh.gov/program/public-impact-projects-celebrating-americas-250th-anniversary
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to assist cultural organizations in expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of public programs that examine the founding of the nation and the significance of the Declaration of Independence.

National Geographic Society

The Big Questions
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/grants-and-investments/funding-opportunity-the-big-questions/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization, and other storytelling proposals to help people consider some of the greatest questions of our time.

Conservation and the Environment

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

This Broad Agency Announcement is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s competitive discretionary programs.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management Cultural and Paleontological Resource Management- Bureau wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359679
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop partnerships to improve access to, and use of, heritage resources, and promote their educational, scientific, cultural, and recreational values in a manner that meets U.S. Department of the Interior priorities and Cultural Heritage and Paleontology Program goals.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands- Management Studies Support Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359680
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies and other activities aimed at increasing our understanding of the resources present on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, the values these areas protect, and the effectiveness of BLM’s management decisions.

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

Conservation Efforts
https://www.speciesconservation.org/grants/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to support conservation efforts related to plants, animals, and fungi species without discrimination based on region or selected species.

National Science Foundation

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-pf-earth-sciences-postdoctoral-fellowships/nsf25-500/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/29/2025

This program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with research experience, mentorship, and training that will help establish them in leadership positions in the Earth sciences community.

National Science Foundation

Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fire-fire-science-innovations-through-research-education
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

U.S. Standard Grants Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358607
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote partnerships between public agencies and groups interested in long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds; maintaining and improving the current distributions of wetlands-associated migratory bird populations; and maintaining an abundance of waterfowl and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Defense

Department of Defense

Advanced Manufacturing Innovation for Maritime Readiness Challenge
https://events.techconnect.org/DTCFall/Maritime-Readiness-Challenge/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

This opportunity aims to tap into cutting-edge commercial innovations, modernize maintenance and logistics infrastructure, and empower service members with tools and technologies that boost their independence and mission effectiveness.

Department of Defense

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358674

This opportunity seeks advancements in research and technology aimed at improving the technology and weaponry in aircrafts.

White papers may be submitted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Communications and Networking Applied Research
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/359194?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the Navy’s Information Warfare vision by developing measurable advances in technology that can directly enable and enhance end-to-end connectivity and quality-of-service for mission-critical information exchange among widely dispersed naval, joint, and coalition forces.

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

This broad agency announcement seeks research for various development topic areas, including hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes.

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

Department of Defense

Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/093a0c0386e6416ea3f48a7aea5b0047/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=1b006a51f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_15_07_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-1b006a51f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks paradigm-shifting approaches for modeling complex, dynamic systems for predicting collective human behavior. Addressing this challenge will require the design of entirely new methodologies, metrics, tools and theoretical frameworks that can more accurately and reliably forecast human behavior by addressing the limitations and complexities that current methods struggle to capture.

Department of Defense

Naval Aviation North Stars Enterprise-Wide Broad Agency Announcement
https://sam.gov/opp/91c05c3653174cc5b8aae0069787ccbb/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=77015d3b56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_10_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-77015d3b56-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/03/2025

This opportunity seeks research and development for rapid prototyping, demonstration, and experimentation projects that offer potential for advancements and improvements in Integrated Warfighting Capability across the Naval Aviation mission areas supporting Naval Operations and, as applicable, to Naval Air Systems Command and subordinate commands.

White papers may be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359106
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance the state-of-the-art to 1) quantitatively assess the performance of qubit operations in multi-qubit circuits and to extract error-models, 2) bring up multi-qubit circuits for high-performance operations near or better than fault-tolerance thresholds, and 3) control techniques to operate multi-qubit circuits operating near or better than fault-tolerant thresholds, accounting for the specifics of error-models for the circuit.

Department of Defense

Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359050

This opportunity seeks to support broad-based scientific and engineering research with the potential to profoundly impact future U.S. Air Force and Space Force capabilities.

Application deadlines vary by program.

Department of Defense

Strategic Trends Division Broad Agency Announcement
https://sam.gov/opp/cb08167441a2486b8eccca530b4b5f76/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=732590c7ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_06_07_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-732590c7ea-712519256

This opportunity seeks outstanding public and private research institutions to deliver research products that generate operationally- relevant, timely, credible, actionable insights and recommendations into emerging threats within Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s mission space in order to enable and guide warfighter understanding of the range of military operations in the next five (5) to ten (10) years.

White papers and proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Toxic Exposures Investigator-Initiated Research Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359255
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/29/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/16/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or patient care for diseases or conditions associated with military-related toxic exposures.

Education and Outreach

National Association of Music Merchants

Global Grantmaking – Music Research Grants
https://www.nammfoundation.org/global-grantmaking
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/04/2025

This opportunity seeks research that improves practices and increases public/private resources for music education and workforce development in the United States.

NASA Nebraska

Higher Education Mini-Grants
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103460
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage college and university students to pursue careers in aerospace after they graduate, contributing to the scientific workforce.

Department of education

Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities-Preparation of Special Education and Early Intervention Administrators
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359134
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support doctoral degree programs to prepare and increase the number of personnel who are well-qualified for and can act effectively in leadership positions in state educational agencies (SEAs), charter management organizations, charter school authorizers, lead agencies, local educational agencies (LEAs), private school networks, parochial schools, early intervention services programs, or schools in positions such as SEA special education administrators, LEA or regional special education directors, school-based special education directors, preschool coordinators, and early intervention coordinators.

Department of Commerce

Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358792?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=732590c7ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_06_07_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-732590c7ea-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity is seeking to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity.

Department of Defense

Staff Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359236
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2030

This opportunity seeks to enable the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) scientific staff to maintain and expand professional competence in support of fulfilling the ARO mission through the conduct of hands-on, basic research.

Engineering and Technology

Nvidia

Academic Grant Program
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/higher-education-research/academic-grant-program/?ncid=em-anno-411336-vt16#nv-accordion-57fe9a47bc-item-53135a750f
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity is an open call for research proposals to advance work in three new interest areas: generative AI training and model development, generative AI alignment and inferencing, and simulation and modeling.

Department of Transportation

Competitive Academic Agreement Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359056
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity seeks applications outlining research that addresses the shared interests of academic researchers, the public, and pipeline operators regarding pipeline safety topics aiming for commercial application.

National Science Foundation

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cssi-cyberinfrastructure-sustained-scientific-innovation/nsf22-632/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/01/2025

This program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure.

National Science Foundation

Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/m3x-mind-machine-motor-nexus

This opportunity 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.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

NASA Nebraska

Research Mini-Grants
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103389
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity provides National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)- and aerospace-related research grants to Nebraska researchers interested in further developing ties with NASA scientists and engineers, and conducting research important to NASA.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

This opportunity aims to build trust in all aspects of global cyber ecosystems. Trust can assume different meanings according to the context but, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined to include concepts covering security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace, particularly in the face of malicious intent and specific threats. This opportunity welcomes proposals that address trust in cyberspace that draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computer and information science and engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

National Science Foundation

Track 1: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/vines-verticals-enabling-intelligent-network-systems/nsf25-539/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support both fundamental research and vertical-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next-generation advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum.

National Science Foundation

Track 2: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/vines-verticals-enabling-intelligent-network-systems/nsf25-539/solicitation
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/25/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

University Leadership Initiative
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={E00DB261-BB62-5850-1B67-1AF5600E7636}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks new, innovative ideas that can complement the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s portfolio and support the U.S. aviation community to benefit the American public.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Vehicle Technology Office Program Wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358307
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/18/2025

This opportunity seeks applications to address improved battery technology for both light- and heavy-duty applications, smart charging infrastructure, sustainable farming, workforce development, and demonstration and deployment of these and other new innovative technologies.

External Funding Opportunities

Nvidia

National Institutes of Health

Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-055.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/17/2025

This opportunity seeks applications proposing innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of substance using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription, and other substances) and related disorders, prevention of substance use and HIV, and health service utilization.

Department of Defense

Advanced Manufacturing Innovation for Maritime Readiness Challenge
https://events.techconnect.org/DTCFall/Maritime-Readiness-Challenge/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

National Institutes of Health

Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-219.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to support advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

Department of Defense

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358674

This opportunity seeks advancements in research and technology aimed at improving the technology and weaponry in aircrafts.

White papers may be submitted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Alzheimer’s Research Program
https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663104&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=379bb0f067-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_22_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-379bb0f067-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/12/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

These opportunities support research seeking to transform diagnosis and prognosis to better determine the trajectory, long-term outcomes, and impact of Alzheimer’s disease/Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias following military service and/or traumatic brain injury.

Department of Defense

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program
https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663102&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=379bb0f067-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_22_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-379bb0f067-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/27/2025

These opportunities support research aimed at advancing the treatment and understanding of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Milken Institute

Ann Theodore Foundation Learning Opportunities in Medicine and Sarcoidosis
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EbcjwoUucVFPhFYpHciwIZ8BEf4dcKCoTmxhN8nhfaPnyA?e=FXxFiU
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide funding support for early career researchers interested in sarcoidosis research.

National Science Foundation

Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Field Support
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/antarctic-research-not-requiring-us-antarctic-program-field/nsf25-526/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This solicitation supports research that advances understanding of the biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas primarily through laboratory, modeling, and theoretical work encompassing terrestrial, marine, cryospheric, atmospheric, and space settings.

National Science Foundation

Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program Support for Fieldwork
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/antarctic-research-requiring-us-antarctic-program-support/nsf25-525/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This opportunity supports research that advances understanding of the biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas. The program focuses on research that must be performed, or is best performed, in Antarctica and requires logistical support from the U.S. Antarctic Program.

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

National Archives and Records Administration

Archival Projects
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/archival.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/05/2025

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

This opportunity seeks high-quality research across a variety of disciplines and methods that has clear potential to benefit animals, either directly or through effecting systems-level change.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Next Generation Sensor Technology Development (U01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

This opportunity is intended to support the development of next generation sensor technologies and bioelectronic devices to further the goals of the Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization program of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative.

National Institutes of Health

BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-EY-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

This opportunity seeks applications for unique and innovative recording and/or modulation technologies that are in the earliest stage of development, including new and untested ideas that are in the initial stages of conceptualization.

Department of Defense

Breast Cancer Research Program
https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663101&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=379bb0f067-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_22_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-379bb0f067-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

These opportunities support promising research with high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer.

Department of Defense

Breast Cancer Research Program: Breakthrough Award Level 3
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/bcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/10/2025

This opportunity supports promising research with high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer.

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Arnold Ventures

Building Evidence: Support for Quasi-Experimental Methods to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies
https://assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/AV_RFP_Building-Evidence.pdf?_gl=1*ihtrzk*_ga*MzQ3MDQ5MDQxLjE3MzA3MzQ5NDI.*_ga_J00GFVDRJS*czE3NDY1NDEzNDkkbzIxMiRnMSR0MTc0NjU0MTY4NSRqMTUkbDAkaDE3MzMwMDY4ODY.
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/26/2025

This opportunity aims to bolster the knowledge base about potentially effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous, causal research using quasi-experimental methods that align with key Arnold Ventures policy areas.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management Cultural and Paleontological Resource Management- Bureau wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359679
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands- Management Studies Support Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359680
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

Call for Proposals
https://www.angelman.org/as-research/call-for-proposals/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=cd09d6c4f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_08_08_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-cd09d6c4f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity is accepting proposals for Angelman syndrome (AS)-related research projects. Priority will be given to the following topics: 1) projects studying or correcting the heterozygous effect of non-UBE3A genes in deletion, 2) projects studying the potential results of increasing UBE3A after therapies or for some subtypes of AS, 3) projects studying the delivery of therapies and potential for improvement, or 4) symptomatic therapies that impact the daily life of people with Angelman syndrome and their families.

American Association for Cancer Research

Cancer Research Grant
https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-novocure-cancer-research-grant-aacr-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote and support independent investigators who are currently conducting innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields; intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells) as well as to encourage independent investigators to enter the TTFields research field.

American Cancer Society

Cancer Research Opportunities
https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

National Institutes of Health

Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic Opioids (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-034.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 10/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/18/2025

This opportunity will support research towards understanding and mitigating the deleterious effects of acute exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl, carfentanil, nitazenes) and their combinations (e.g., fentanyl and xylazine).

Department of Justice

Collaborative Reform Initiative: Organizational Assessment and Critical Response
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358973
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) provide technical assistance to law enforcement agencies seeking to identify and implement organizational improvements aligned with the principles of community policing and 2) promote community policing practices nationwide.

National Institutes of Health

Collaborative Research Using Biosamples and/or Data from Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-007.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks applications for studies of type 1 diabetes etiology and pathogenesis using data and samples from clinical trials and studies. This opportunity is intended to fund investigative teams collaborating to answer important questions about disease mechanisms leading to improved delay and durable prevention of type 1 diabetes.

Department of Defense

Department of Justice

Community Policing Development Accreditation: Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358975
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to increase the number of state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies accredited by an independent accreditation body.

Department of Justice

Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358974
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to produce innovative knowledge products and resources that promote community-oriented policing and increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies to enhance public safety.

Department of Transportation

Competitive Academic Agreement Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359056
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

Wenner-Gren

Conference and Workshop Grant
https://wennergren.org/program/conference-and-workshop-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research.

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund

This opportunity seeks to support conservation efforts related to plants, animals, and fungi species without discrimination based on region or selected species.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Award
https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-scholar-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills.

Vilcek Foundation

Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
https://vilcek.org/prizes/vilcek-prizes-for-creative-promise/creative-promise-prizes-biomedical-science/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement.

Vilcek Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support young, immigrant fashion professionals who demonstrate outstanding early achievement in their field.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

This opportunity supports innovative and transformative research that explores crop-animal interconnections to advance both crop and animal systems.

LGS Foundation

Cure LGS 365 Research Grants
https://www.lgsfoundation.org/365-research-grant/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=aa33a1f960-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_13_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-aa33a1f960-712519256

This opportunity seeks new basic, translational, and clinical research projects on Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Science Foundation

This program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Department of Defense

Defense Sciences Office BAA
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359239
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2026

This opportunity seeks proposals that investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems for national security applications.

Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis.

National Institutes of Health

Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-002.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/19/2025

This opportunity supports early-stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of the National Institutes of Health.

National Institutes of Health

Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of the National Institutes of Health.

Department of Commerce

Disaster Supplemental
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359225
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2026

This opportunity seeks to help communities and regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects in areas where a Presidential declaration of a major disaster was issued under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Institutes of Health

Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-CA-25-013.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/13/2025

The National Cancer Institute intends to support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, non-toxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention.

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity provides funding to programs and initiatives aimed at helping college students and/or college graduates from historically underrepresented groups successfully matriculate into law school and the legal profession.

Department of Defense

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/dmdrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

These opportunities support the development of innovative, high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultimately lead to improved outcomes.

National Institutes of Health

Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize
https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=ninds-early-career-rigor-champions-prize&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=aa33a1f960-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_13_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-aa33a1f960-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) identify individuals or small teams (up to 3 individuals) of early-career rigor champions who are promoting enhanced research rigor that is relevant to the neuroscience community and the biomedical community at-large outside of their normal job duties, 2) recognize and reward these early-career rigor champions for these efforts, and 3) raise awareness of these efforts more broadly.

National Science Foundation

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-pf-earth-sciences-postdoctoral-fellowships/nsf25-500/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/29/2025

National Science Foundation

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-ebp-education-broadening-participation-earth-sciences

This opportunity facilitates activities that engage a wide range of audiences in Earth Sciences research efforts, including research experiences for undergraduates and teachers, postdoctoral fellowships, faculty early career development, and recruitment and retention of individuals in Earth sciences.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund – Preservation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358913
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

Department of Agriculture

Emerging Markets Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358614
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/06/2025

National Geographic Society

This opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates.

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Institutes of Health

Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-211.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This opportunity aims to support highly innovative mechanistic research to accelerate the development of effective precision probiotic interventions using a milestone-driven, biphasic award mechanism.

Department of Energy

Exploratory Research
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-exploratory-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance scientific understanding in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s three Science Areas (Functional and Systems Biology, Environmental Transformations and Interactions, Computing, Analytics, and Modeling).

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory Studies to Investigate Mechanisms of HIV infection, Replication, Latency, and/or Pathogenesis in the Context of Substance Use Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-073.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

This opportunity will support high-risk, high-impact studies that 1) develop or apply novel tools or technologies or 2) test novel hypotheses to investigate mechanistic questions in HIV infection, replication, latency, and/or pathogenesis (including neuroHIV) in the context of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Exploring Equitable Futures
https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=aa33a1f960-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_13_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-aa33a1f960-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Agriculture

Farmers Market Promotion Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358899
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Fellowship in Plant Science Research
https://www.osgf.org/fellowships/plant-science-research
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

National Science Foundation

This opportunity seeks innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire.

Department of Defense

Focused Program Award – Rare Melanomas
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity seeks a unifying, overarching question that addresses a critical unmet need relevant to rare melanoma research and/or patient care, with the ultimate goal to translate laboratory findings to clinical applications.

J.M Kaplan Fund and Hawthornden Foundation

Furthermore Nonfiction Book Publishing
https://furthermore.org/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Association of Music Merchants

Global Grantmaking – Music Research Grants
https://www.nammfoundation.org/global-grantmaking
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/04/2025

This opportunity seeks research that improves practices and increases public/private resources for music education and workforce development in the United States.

Department of Transportation

High Priority Program-Commercial Motor Vehicle
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359064
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity seeks to support innovative and impactful projects that advance its mission to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

National Institutes of Health

High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-264.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This opportunity encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $750,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000.

NASA Nebraska

Higher Education Mini-Grants
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103460
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage college and university students to pursue careers in aerospace after they graduate, contributing to the scientific workforce.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

This opportunity supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

Hodgkin-Huxley Research Grant
https://www.scn2a.org/professionals.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Idea Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that represent high-risk/high-gain approaches to melanoma research that are beyond incremental advancements.

Queer Art

Illuminations Grant
https://www.queer-art.org/illuminations-grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity aims to shed light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provide critical support to their continuing work.

National Institutes of Health

In-Depth Phenotyping and Research Using IMPC-Generated Knockout Mouse Strains Exhibiting Embryonic or Perinatal Lethality or Subviability (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-140.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/05/2025

This opportunity seeks to: 1) to encourage submission of applications to do more in-depth phenotyping on investigator-selected cohorts of embryonic lethal or subviable Knockout (KO) mouse strains generated by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) of which the National Institutes of Health Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program is a member; and, 2) to encourage submission of applications to use investigator-selected embryonic lethal, perinatal lethal, or subviable IMPC-generated KO mouse strains in hypothesis-driven research focused on placental defects, structural birth defects, and/or fertility issues.

National Science Foundation

Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ihbem-incorporating-human-behavior-epidemiological-models/nsf25-538/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/14/2025

This opportunity seeks to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-capacity-biological-research/nsf23-580/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (Capacity) Program supports the scaling of or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-innovation-biological-research/nsf23-578/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas: Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Innovation Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.

National Institute for Health Care Management

Investigator-Initiated Research
https://nihcm.org/grants/research-grants?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=77015d3b56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_10_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-77015d3b56-712519256
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity seeks projects that inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

American Psychological Foundation

Joseph B. Gittler Award
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/gittler-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/05/2025

This opportunity seeks to recognize psychologists who are making and will continue to make scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.

American Psychological Foundation

Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/clark-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/19/2025

This opportunity supports research and demonstration activities that promote the understanding of the relationship between self-identity and academic achievement with an emphasis on children in grade levels K-8.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of Agriculture

Local Food Promotion Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358907
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

Greenwall Foundation

Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas
https://greenwall.org/making-a-difference-grants/request-for-proposals-MAD-fall-2025?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=77015d3b56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_10_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-77015d3b56-712519256
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/23/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/08/2025

This opportunity supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.

American Psychological Foundation

Marian R. Stuart Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/stuart-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to further the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health.

Department of Commerce

Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358955

This opportunity seeks to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Leadership Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports visionary individuals who are established melanoma investigators with a strong record of mentoring and a commitment to leadership.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Scholar Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports the addition of new scholars to the unique, interactive virtual academy that provides intensive mentoring, national networking, collaborations, and a peer group for early-career melanoma investigators/faculty.

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Microglial Pathophysiology in Comorbid Substance Use Disorder and HIV (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-063.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

Department of Defense

Military Burn Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mbrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/23/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/08/2025

This opportunity supports innovative, untested, groundbreaking research that provides new insights and explores early concepts in battlefield burn care, which provides the foundation for future translational and/or clinical research.

National Science Foundation

Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/m3x-mind-machine-motor-nexus

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-25-006.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert.

National Association of Music Merchants Foundation

Music Research Grants
https://www.nammfoundation.org/global-grantmaking
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

This opportunity seeks research that improves practices and increases public/private resources for music education, music creation, and workforce development in the United States.

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Garden of American Heroes: Statues
https://www.neh.gov/program/national-garden-american-heroes-statues
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This program supports the design and creation of statues of historical figures from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific, economic, and political heritage.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Catalyst Award (DP1 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-006.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/18/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists who propose pioneering and transformational studies in topic areas of interest to National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ (NIDDK) Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, and to NIDDK’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences National and Regional Resources (R24 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-416.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support resources that will provide access to state-of-the-art equipment, technologies, research tools, materials, organisms, software, and/or services to a substantial regional (multi-state) or national user base.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse Avant-Garde Program for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-261.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks high-impact studies that open new areas of HIV research in the context of substance use and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV in people with SUD.

Department of Defense

White papers may be submitted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

New Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DK-26-009.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in type 1 diabetes research.

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

This opportunity provides graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships in non-academic settings. The program enables graduate students to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy.

Deadline for applications varies by program.

Department of Defense

Ovarian Cancer Research Program
https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=663103&utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=379bb0f067-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_22_07_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-379bb0f067-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/12/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/11/2025

These opportunities support high-impact research that addresses a critical need and has the potential to make an important contribution to ovarian cancer or patient/survivor care.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

Department of Defense

Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Technology/Therapeutic Development Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358887
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/09/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/21/2025

This opportunity is a product-driven award mechanism intended to provide support for the translation of promising preclinical findings into products for clinical applications.

Pen America

Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grants
https://pen.org/literary-grants/pen-heim-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote the publication and reception of translated international literature in English.

Department of education

National Endowment for the Humanities

Preservation and Access Education and Training
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/preservation-and-access-education-and-training
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/17/2025

This opportunity supports projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections.

Department of Defense

Prostate Cancer Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/prgdefault
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/08/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

Supports new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to one or more of the Prostate Cancer Research Program’s overarching challenges.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Department of Defense

Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359106
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Concept Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/22/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/26/2025

This opportunity supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. Proof-of-concept is the anticipated outcome.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation in the rare cancers field.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Resource and Community Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports the development of research resources and clinical or preclinical data sets that advance the field of rare cancer research and ultimately improve outcomes of individuals with rare cancers.

Department of Commerce

This opportunity is seeking to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs.

Department of Agriculture

Regional Food System Partnerships
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358904
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

This program seeks to support partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local and regional food systems.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

Research Fellowship
https://hhwf.org/research-fellowship/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=c17df6394a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_02_26_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c17df6394a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/16/2025

This opportunity grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young researchers engaged in biological or medical research.

National Institutes of Health

Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-218.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

Department of Defense

Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359050

This opportunity seeks to support broad-based scientific and engineering research with the potential to profoundly impact future U.S. Air Force and Space Force capabilities.

Application deadlines vary by program.

NASA Nebraska

Research Mini-Grants
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103389
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

Leakey Foundation

Research Related to Human Origins
https://leakeyfoundation.org/grant/research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity supports both PhD dissertation research and post-PhD research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.3 Solar System Workings
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b944C9FF1-979D-BA46-7AEA-78AB7891B012%7d&path=&method=init

This program solicits investigations that address compelling scientific questions into the evolution of our Solar System during the time that large planetary bodies were in or near their modern configuration up to the present day.

Applications are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent – F32)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-423.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity seeks to enable promising postdoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent – F31)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-422.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity seeks to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Senior Fellowship (Parent – F33)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-424.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity awards senior individual research training fellowships to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

Department of Transportation

Safe Streets and Roads for All
https://www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/fy25-nofo
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through the development of action plans and refinement and implementation focused on all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, and commercial vehicle operators.

Eligible applicants may submit one application.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This program is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity. The opportunity welcomes proposals applying rigorous empirical research methods to advance theory and knowledge on 1) the social and structural mechanisms of scientific discovery, 2) theories, frameworks, models and data that improve our understanding of scientific communication and outcomes, and 3) the societal benefits of scientific activity and how science advances evidence-based policy making and the creation of public value.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

Department of Justice

Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Research Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359006
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

This opportunity seeks research on the availability of, and patient access to, trained sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) and other providers who perform medical forensic exams (MFEs) or sexual assault forensic examinations; facilities where sexual assault medical forensic care is available, including staffing coverage; barriers to accessing sexual assault medical forensic care; state requirements, minimum standards, and protocols for SANEs; information about training available to SANEs; the availability of sexual assault victim advocates at locations where such exams are provided; the annual cost of conducting sexual assault forensic exams (SAFEs); information on funding opportunities for SANE training and continuing education; and the availability of sexual assault advocates at locations providing SAFEs.

National Institutes of Health

Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-265.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2025

This opportunity encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. The minimum award is $50,000. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $750,000.

American Society of Primatologists

Small Research Grant
https://asp.org/grants-and-awards/research-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity supports research designed to test hypotheses about the proximate and ultimate processes that influence primate behavior, social organization, development, reproduction, physiology, anatomy, and/or evolution.

NASA Nebraska

Space Grant Fellowships
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103387-Nasa-Nebraska-Space-Grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to recruit students for aerospace-related research.

Department of Defense

Staff Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359236
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2030

Department of Defense

White papers and proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.

Smith Richardson Foundation

Strategy and Policy Fellows Program
https://www.srf.org/programs/international-security-foreign-policy/strategy-policy-fellows-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

Arnold Ventures

Strengthening Evidence: Support for Randomized Controlled Trials to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies
https://assets.arnoldventures.org/uploads/AV_RFP_Strengthening-Evidence.pdf?_gl=1*ihtrzk*_ga*MzQ3MDQ5MDQxLjE3MzA3MzQ5NDI.*_ga_J00GFVDRJS*czE3NDY1NDEzNDkkbzIxMiRnMSR0MTc0NjU0MTY4NSRqMTUkbDAkaDE3MzMwMDY4ODY.
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/26/2025

This opportunity aims to build the body of proven, effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous randomized controlled trials across the spectrum of social policy.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Survivorship Research Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports a broad range of innovative and impactful survivorship research that has the intended outcome of improving the health and well-being of melanoma survivors (active- or post-treatment), their families, and/or their caregivers.

Department of Defense

Team Science Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports new or existing partnerships to address a research problem or question in a manner that would be unachievable through separate efforts.

Department of Agriculture

National Geographic Society

This opportunity seeks innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization, and other storytelling proposals to help people consider some of the greatest questions of our time.

National Institutes of Health

The Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: National Institutes of Health Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-077.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

This opportunity invites applications for basic research to inform toxicology of chemical warfare agents and select toxic industrial chemicals and materials that have primary or secondary effects on the nervous system.

National Institutes of Health

The Metastasis Research Network: MetNet Research Projects (U01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-130.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 05/21/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity invites applications for MetNet research projects. These research projects should be defined as discrete entities that use systems-level approaches to address gaps and opportunities in metastasis research to integrate into the MetNet and complement ongoing research across the network.

National Science Foundation

The Research on Research Security Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/rors-research-research-security-program

This opportunity seeks to foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Toxic Exposures Investigator-Initiated Research Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359255
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/29/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/16/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or patient care for diseases or conditions associated with military-related toxic exposures.

National Science Foundation

Department of the Interior

U.S. Standard Grants Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358607
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Energy

Vehicle Technology Office Program Wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358307
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/18/2025

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

American Psychological Foundation

Wayne F. Placek Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/placek-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/12/2025

This opportunity encourages research to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation, and to alleviate the stress that LGBTQIA+ individuals experience in this and future civilizations.

Fellowships, Awards, and Internships

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Award
https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-scholar-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-ebp-education-broadening-participation-earth-sciences

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Innovation Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Deadline for applications varies by program.

The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation

This opportunity grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young researchers engaged in biological or medical research.

National Institutes of Health

NASA Nebraska

Space Grant Fellowships
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/103387-Nasa-Nebraska-Space-Grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to recruit students for aerospace-related research.

Internal Funding Opportunities

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Advancing Microbiome Research at the University of Nebraska
https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/_documents/newsletter/microbiome-rsch-group-pilot-rfa.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to support investigators to produce primary, preliminary, or feasibility data that can support larger, future proposals for groundbreaking research that leverages novel technologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and translational strategies to address key questions in microbiome science, impacting human health.

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

These seed funds are intended to enhance the competitiveness of faculty submitting grant proposals requesting R21- or R01-level support from the National Institutes of Health. Investigators are expected to leverage seed funding to accumulate evidence in support of a working hypothesis; demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach; or build reviewers’ confidence in a project team’s ability to handle cutting-edge technologies, understand methods, and interpret results.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation

Catalyst Grants
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EV44jQVZIgtLnGRI1fjtXngBAgbDHupT22VngGIRSpBFnw?e=mHafqM

This opportunity seeks to support and expand Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard’s mission of education and provide funding for faculty- and staff-led innovations that strengthen UNL’s partnership with the orchard and vineyard.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until all data grants have been made. If you have trouble viewing the opportunity, contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu) for assistance.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Revision Awards enhance the competitiveness of faculty revising and resubmitting grant proposals by providing developmental and/or financial support to help improve highly meritorious, but previously unfunded, federal funding proposals that are eligible for resubmission.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary Analysis to Publication Awards & Building on Our Strengths Award
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

These solicitations are on a rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.

Social and traditional Media And Research Tools Lab

Seed Data Grants
https://journalism.unl.edu/news/call-proposals-smart-lab-seed-data-grants/

This opportunity seeks to provide University of Nebraska researchers access to data from social and traditional media sources, including X, Reddit, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, news, blogs, forums, and more.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all data grants have been made.

Journalism and Media

Pen America

Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grants
https://pen.org/literary-grants/pen-heim-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote the publication and reception of translated international literature in English.

Law, Justice, and Human Rights

Arnold Ventures

Department of Justice

Collaborative Reform Initiative: Organizational Assessment and Critical Response
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358973
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

Department of Justice

Community Policing Development Accreditation: Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358975
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to increase the number of state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies accredited by an independent accreditation body.

Department of Justice

Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358974
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to produce innovative knowledge products and resources that promote community-oriented policing and increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies to enhance public safety.

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Department of Justice

Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Research Initiative
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359006
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/27/2025

Smith Richardson Foundation

Strategy and Policy Fellows Program
https://www.srf.org/programs/international-security-foreign-policy/strategy-policy-fellows-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

Arnold Ventures

Life Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

These opportunities support research aimed at advancing the treatment and understanding of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Milken Institute

This opportunity seeks to provide funding support for early career researchers interested in sarcoidosis research.

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

These opportunities support promising research with high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer.

Department of Defense

Breast Cancer Research Program: Breakthrough Award Level 3
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/bcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/13/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/10/2025

This opportunity supports promising research with high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer.

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

American Association for Cancer Research

Cancer Research Grant
https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-novocure-cancer-research-grant-aacr-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

American Cancer Society

These opportunities are seeking proposals aimed at advancing cancer research.

National Institutes of Health

Vilcek Foundation

Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
https://vilcek.org/prizes/vilcek-prizes-for-creative-promise/creative-promise-prizes-biomedical-science/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to support young, immigrant biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement.

LGS Foundation

This opportunity seeks new basic, translational, and clinical research projects on Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Institutes of Health

The National Cancer Institute intends to support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, non-toxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention.

Department of Defense

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/dmdrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

These opportunities support the development of innovative, high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultimately lead to improved outcomes.

National Institutes of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Focused Program Award – Rare Melanomas
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Idea Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that represent high-risk/high-gain approaches to melanoma research that are beyond incremental advancements.

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-capacity-biological-research/nsf23-580/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-innovation-biological-research/nsf23-578/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institute for Health Care Management

This opportunity seeks projects that inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

Greenwall Foundation

This opportunity supports research to help resolve important emerging or unanswered bioethics problems in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Leadership Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports visionary individuals who are established melanoma investigators with a strong record of mentoring and a commitment to leadership.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Scholar Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

Military Burn Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mbrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/23/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/08/2025

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support a robust pipeline of innovative projects and talented new investigators in type 1 diabetes research.

Department of Defense

These opportunities support high-impact research that addresses a critical need and has the potential to make an important contribution to ovarian cancer or patient/survivor care.

Department of Defense

This opportunity is a product-driven award mechanism intended to provide support for the translation of promising preclinical findings into products for clinical applications.

Department of Defense

Prostate Cancer Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/prgdefault
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/08/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Concept Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/22/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/26/2025

This opportunity supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. Proof-of-concept is the anticipated outcome.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation in the rare cancers field.

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Leakey Foundation

Research Related to Human Origins
https://leakeyfoundation.org/grant/research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity supports both PhD dissertation research and post-PhD research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior.

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

Survivorship Research Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

Department of Defense

Team Science Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 06/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports new or existing partnerships to address a research problem or question in a manner that would be unachievable through separate efforts.

National Institutes of Health

Limited Submission Competitions

Department of State

Addressing Development and Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons by Russia
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359215
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to prevent Russian acquisition of critical biological, biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceutical materials and equipment, to prepare partners to respond to chemical and biological weapons use, and to deter Russia from future use.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 06/06/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Endowment for the Arts

Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes
https://www.arts.gov/grants/national-garden-of-heroes
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/14/2025

This opportunity will offer grants for arts projects in any discipline that celebrate the contributions to American history of one or more of the national heroes listed in Executive Order 13978.

An organization may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 06/16/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Department of State

Countering Biological Weapons Threats
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359216
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to prevent U.S. adversaries from developing and/or deploying biological weapons (BW), exploiting partner facilities to acquire BW-applicable materials and data, and utilizing malign influence to gain strategic advantage over the U.S. and threaten U.S. national security.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

Countering Chemical Weapons Threats
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359223
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This program seeks to prevent U.S. adversaries from acquiring the materials, equipment, and expertise needed to advance chemical weapons programs that threaten U.S. national security.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 06/11/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Department of State

Countering Chinese and Russian Proliferation of Advanced Conventional Weapons
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359214
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to 1) counter procurement networks used to acquire advanced conventional weapons, 2) counter the state-sponsored proliferation of advanced conventional weapons, 3) address strategic defense dependencies, and 4) counter the malign activity of private military companies to include exploitation of natural resources, including critical minerals.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

Countering Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Ballistic Missile, and Drone Proliferation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359220
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity aims to prevent Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from developing weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles, unmanned aerial systems, and nuclear programs.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

Countering U.S. Adversary Weapons of Mass Destruction and Drone Threats in Iraq
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359224
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to protect U.S. personnel, including U.S. forces based in the region, from attacks by securing chemical and biological materials, dual-use equipment, technologies, expertise, and infrastructure to prevent their misuse by state and non-state actors.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

Denying U.S. Adversaries Access to Sensitive Nuclear, Missile, and Advanced Technical Expertise for Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs that Threaten America
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359218
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to deny U.S. adversaries access to cutting-edge innovation and weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-relevant scientific knowledge from foreign civilian scientists, technicians, and engineers who are geographically displaced or otherwise rendered financially vulnerable to WMD programs that threaten the American homeland, American lives, American prosperity, and American leadership.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

Enforcing Sanctions on China and Russia
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359219
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to engage foreign audiences in identifying and taking action against complex sanctions evasion entities and networks.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

National Science Foundation

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement-Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-focused-epscor/nsf24-573/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/21/2025
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 12/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/27/2026

This program, formerly known as “EPSCoR Track-2 program,” builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan. Projects must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges that neither party could address as well or as rapidly independently.

For this year’s competition, proposals will be accepted in the following focus area: “Building capacity towards use-inspired research.”

An organization may submit only one proposal to the competition as lead.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 04/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Endowment for the Arts

Grants for Arts Projects
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/17/2025

This opportunity provides funding for public engagement with the arts and arts education, for the integration of the arts with strategies promoting the health and well-being of people and communities, and for the improvement of overall capacity and capabilities within the arts sector.

An organization may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of Education

Interdisciplinary Preparation of Early Intervention, Special Education, and Related Services Personnel Serving Children With Disabilities Who Have High Intensity Needs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359124
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to increase the number and improve the quality of early intervention, special education, and related services personnel who are fully credentialed to serve children who have high-intensity needs.

Institutions may submit only one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 06/02/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Science Foundation

Major Research Instrumentation
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mri-major-research-instrumentation-program/nsf23-519/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 05/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/14/2025

This opportunity supports the acquisition of a multi-user research instrument that is commercially available through direct purchase from a vendor, or for the personnel costs and equipment that are required for the development of an instrument with new capabilities, thereby advancing instrumentation capabilities and enhancing expertise for instrument design and fabrication at academic institutions.

Each performing organization is limited to no more than two submissions in Track 1, no more than one submission in Track 2, and no more than one submission in Track 3.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 05/19/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Department of Defense

Military Health System Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359250
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/11/2025
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/09/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery within the Military Health System and accelerate its mission to become a learning health system and to mature as an integrated health system focused on Ready Reliable Care that will improve outcomes for patients, staff, and the enterprise.

Organizations may submit up to two letters of intent for consideration.

Department of State

Preventing U.S. Adversaries’ Access to Critical Technologies and Exploitation of Scientific and Commercial Facilities for Military Advancement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359217
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/06/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals to advance the America First Investment Policy by stopping Chinese firms and researchers from stealing U.S. intellectual property and sensitive technologies to enable the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army from developing and deploying dual-use technologies, weapons of mass destruction, advanced conventional weapons, and conducting malicious cyberattacks that threaten U.S. security.

Organizations may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

Department of State

U.S. Exchange Alumni Network and Capacity Building Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359247
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/09/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to deepen the U.S. Department of State’s engagement with U.S. citizens who are alumni of U.S. government-sponsored exchange programs (“U.S. exchange alumni”) and support U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy objectives.

Organizations may submit one applications in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 06/09/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Mathematics and Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

Department of Defense

Defense Sciences Office BAA
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359239
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/02/2026

This opportunity seeks proposals that investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems for national security applications.

Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis.

Department of Energy

Exploratory Research
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-exploratory-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

Department of Commerce

Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358955

This opportunity seeks to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.3 Solar System Workings
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b944C9FF1-979D-BA46-7AEA-78AB7891B012%7d&path=&method=init

Applications are accepted at any time.

American Society of Primatologists

Small Research Grant
https://asp.org/grants-and-awards/research-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

National Science Foundation

The Research on Research Security Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/rors-research-research-security-program

This opportunity seeks to foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Miscellaneous

Department of Commerce

Disaster Supplemental
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359225
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2026

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

NU-wide

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Advancing Microbiome Research at the University of Nebraska
https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/_documents/newsletter/microbiome-rsch-group-pilot-rfa.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/07/2025

Social and traditional Media And Research Tools Lab

Seed Data Grants
https://journalism.unl.edu/news/call-proposals-smart-lab-seed-data-grants/

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all data grants have been made.

Social Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Wenner-Gren

Conference and Workshop Grant
https://wennergren.org/program/conference-and-workshop-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/01/2025

This opportunity supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research.

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models.

American Psychological Foundation

Joseph B. Gittler Award
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/gittler-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/05/2025

This opportunity seeks to recognize psychologists who are making and will continue to make scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.

American Psychological Foundation

Kenneth B. and Mamie P. Clark Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/clark-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/19/2025

American Psychological Foundation

Marian R. Stuart Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/stuart-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

American Psychological Foundation

Wayne F. Placek Grants
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/placek-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/12/2025

Transportation

Department of Transportation

High Priority Program-Commercial Motor Vehicle
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359064
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/20/2025

This opportunity seeks to support innovative and impactful projects that advance its mission to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

Department of Transportation

Safe Streets and Roads for All
https://www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/fy25-nofo
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 06/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 06/26/2025

Eligible applicants may submit one application.

Uncategorized

Department of Defense

Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/580b34f2b653452badd8ec37590e27ec/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=e0d1f55d74-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_15_05_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-e0d1f55d74-712519256

This opportunity aims to address significant engineering and design obstacles that prevent the development of deployable biohybrid robotic systems by understanding and controlling the integration of synthetic and biological components to achieve desired emergent system properties.

Pre-applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

UNL

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation

Catalyst Grants
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EV44jQVZIgtLnGRI1fjtXngBAgbDHupT22VngGIRSpBFnw?e=mHafqM

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until all data grants have been made. If you have trouble viewing the opportunity, contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu) for assistance.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary Analysis to Publication Awards & Building on Our Strengths Award
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

These solicitations are on a rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.