NSF
Dear Colleague Letter: Research Coordination Network for National Discovery Cloud for Climate
Deadline 12/18/24
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX Centers) - Limited Submission
Deadline 8/07/2025
NSF
Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Sustainable Polymers Enabled by Emerging Data Analytics
Deadline 1/16/2025
See here for a current list of limited submission opportunities through the University of Wisconsin – Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | ARPA-H (rolling submission) | ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges. | |
| 150,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2026 | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (rolling submission) | Deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV) | Laboratory, field, experimental, theoretical, and/or computational studies that explore the continuous high-temperature igneous and metamorphic geochemical and petrologic processes that shape the Earth. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2028 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Sustainability (rolling submission) | Promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Life and Environments Through Time | Advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2028 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx) (rolling submission) | International multilateral research partnerships that are required to hasten progress in addressing grand challenges by leveraging research excellence in the U.S. & around the globe. |
| 500,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Research Coordination Networks (RCN) (rolling submission) | To advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate & coordinate their research, training & educational activities. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE) | Advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ) | Advance fundamental knowledge in Earth surface processes, leading to transformational discoveries in Earth Sciences. | |
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Defense (DOD-DARPA) | Biological Technologies (rolling submission) | Revolutionary research ideas for biological technology topics not being addressed by other solicitations. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center | Propose R&D Concepts for Potential Collaboration | Propose collaborations with Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Environmental Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Geospatial Research Laboratory. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 01/23/2030 | National Instittutes of Health (NIH) | Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Implementation Science for Climate Change and Health | Implementation studies to understand and address barriers to the adoption, implementation, scale-up, and sustainment to prevent or mitigate the health effects of climate change in the United States and globally. |
| 5,000,000 | No | 02/21/2025 | 01/23/2030 | Bureau of Land Management (DOI-BLM) | FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | Developing genetically appropriate native plant material/seed for use in habitat restoration; implementing & assessing seed-based restoration techniques/efforts; monitoring & restoring of rare plant species. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 02/25/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Uplift Climate and Environmental Community Action Grant | Support the development of an UPLIFT Climate and Environmental Action Community of Practice & a Climate and Environmental Community Action (CECA) Subaward Program |
| 50,000,000 | No | 02/27/2025 | 01/23/2032 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas | Provides support for rural and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities. |
| 20,000 | No | 02/28/2025 | 01/23/2027 | Rainforest Alliance | Kleinhans Fellowship for Community Forestry Research | Funds research that is oriented toward solving real-world problems as defined by community forest enterprises (CFEs). |
| 2,000,000 | No | 02/28/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Accelerate genome research and its application to human health and genomic medicine. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 02/28/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Rural Utilities Service (USDA-RUS) | High Energy Cost Grants | Improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities serving communities in which the average expenditure for home energy is 275 percent of the national average. |
| 400,000,000 | No | 03/01/2025 | 01/23/2033 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program | For integrated carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects that demonstrate substantial improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, cost, and environmental performance of carbon capture technologies for power, industrial, and other commercial applications. |
| 500,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) | The program emphasizes the uses of mathematical methodologies to advance our understanding of complex, dynamic, and heterogeneous biological systems at all scales. |
| 600,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) | Proposals that take risks not typically associated with core programs by pivoting to research areas where they have no proven track record or gaining knowledge from a different discipline to forge new directions in their research field. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 01/23/2031 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) | To enable academically talented, low-income students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. |
| 150,000 | No | 03/05/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Sea Grant Law Center | 2025 Coastal Resilience Program Competition | Research on the effectiveness of laws and policies related to a wide range of coastal resilience issues. |
| 325,000 | No | 03/06/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program | Address high priority issues related to pests and their management using IPM approaches at the state, regional and national levels. |
| 1 | No | 03/07/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | In Vivo Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trials Not Allowed | To develop integrated technologies that can radically increase the depth, speed and scope of imaging in a wide range of biological systems. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 03/10/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Mitochondrial-associated Mechanisms of Neuropathological and Immunodeficient Aging in the Context of HIV and SUD (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | Promote research investigating protective and pathogenic mechanisms at the nexus of mitochondria function and aging in the context of HIV infection and exposure to addictive substances. |
| 1 | No | 03/14/2025 | 01/23/2027 | Africa Synthesis Centre for Climate Change, Environment and Development (ASCEND) | Interactions between Biodiversity and Climate Change Request for a Synthesis Team | African-based: synthesize, integrate and analyze existing data and knowledge to deliver new research insights and enhance policy and/or practice on interactions between biodiversity and climate change. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 03/14/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC) | Research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 03/17/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) | Conservation goal-related research that will directly translate to on-the-ground biodiversity conservation efforts. |
| 3,400,000 | No | 03/18/2025 | 01/23/2029 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trials Optional) | The overall goal of an EHSCC is to identify and capitalize on emerging issues that advance improving the understanding of the relationships among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. |
| 900,000 | No | 03/25/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Responsive Science Initiatives Research | Understanding and forecasting zoonotic disease events or downscaling earth system models (ESMs) to address regional/local challenges. |
| 7,500,000 | No | 03/26/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (CARBIRUs) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Multidisciplinary research programs focused on discovery to early development research to inform new approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. |
| 15,000,000 | No | 03/26/2025 | 01/23/2030 | Department of Energy, Office of Science (DOE-OOS) | Systems Biology Research to Advance Bioenergy Crop Production | Molecular mechanisms underlying bioenergy feedstock productivity or the role(s) of microbes/communities (including bacteria, fungi, diazotrophs, endophytes, viruses) in supporting plant productivity/vigor. |
| 200,000 | No | 04/02/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (SG) | FY2025 Disaster Preparedness for Coastal Communities | To support innovative all-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives for coastal communities. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 04/02/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) | Advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system. |
| 6,000,000 | No | 04/16/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | NOAA's Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grants Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Round 3 | To support transformational habitat restoration projects that restore marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lakes ecosystems, using approaches that enhance community and ecosystem resilience to climate hazards. |
| 400,000 | No | 04/23/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (SG) | FY2025 Young Fishermen’s Career Development Projects | Projects that provide career development opportunities in commercial fisheries. |
| 1 | No | 05/01/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) | To extend current NSF use-inspired research projects that are adventurous, high-risk, and have the potential for commercial translation or widespread adoption. |
| 500,000 | No | 05/13/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, nontoxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 01/23/2026 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, leading-edge, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. |
| 350,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | To support highly innovative mechanistic research to accelerate the development of effective precision probiotic interventions using a milestone-driven, biphasic award mechanism. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 07/02/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | Advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations. |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Connections | Projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields (physical, natural sciences; law & business; computer & data science). |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Endowment for the Humanities | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. |
| 150,000 | No | 09/15/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WI-DNR) | Wisconsin DNR Surface Water Grant Program | Supports surface water management from start to finish, including: outreach, assessments and surveys, planning, project design, or management. |
| 750,000 | No | 10/27/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | IRES focuses on the development of a world-class U.S. STEM workforce through international research experiences for cohorts of U.S. students. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 11/01/2025 | 01/23/2027 | Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) | Annual Request for Proposals | Funds expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet (no IDC allowed). |
| 15,000,000 | No | 12/31/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational and Applied Science Program | Advance knowledge in fundamental & applied agricultural sciences. |
| 50,000 | No | 03/04/2025 | 01/23/2026 | National Academy of Medicine | 2025 US NAM Catalyst Award Competition | High-risk ideas that could potentially yield high rewards and, in turn, dramatically change the field of healthy longevity are encouraged. |
| 250,000 | No | 06/30/2025 | 01/23/2030 | Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) | Letters of Inquiry (LOI) | Six to eight new grants per racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice area with a focus on initiatives in the U.S. South. |
| 450,000 | Yes | 02/19/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award (Limited Submission) | Provides early-career scientists the investment needed to propel them into successful research careers. |
| 350,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 01/23/2030 | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-AFRI) | US-Ireland research and development partnership call in agriculture - Agricultural Microbiomes in Plant Systems and Natural Resources; and Inter-Disciplinary Engagement in Animal Systems (IDEAS) | Supports tri-partite research projects on agricultural microbiomes in plant systems and natural resources, and interdisciplinary engagement in animal systems, between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the US. |
| 2,500,000 | No | 05/30/2025 | 01/23/2027 | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) | Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC) | Supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. |
| 40,000,000 | No | 05/30/2025 | The Pandemic Fund | The Pandemic Fund | Bolster the institutional foundations that support information sharing, coordination across public health and One Health systems, and rapid action. | |
| 12,000,000 | Yes | 03/14/2025 | 01/23/2031 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Monitoring Program (Limited Submission) | The GLCWMP helps satisfy statutory requirements to establish a Great Lakes system-wide surveillance network to monitor the water quality of the Great Lakes. |
| 10,000,000 | No | 02/13/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) | Harnessing Autonomy for Energy Joint Ventures Offshore (HAEJO) | Technical solutions to reduce the cost of seaweed biomass cultivation by a factor of four, develop agricultural biostimulants to reduce synthetic fertilizer use, and utilize carbon from seaweed biomass. |
| 9,200,000 | No | 02/19/2025 | 01/23/2030 | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | The Trust in American Institutions Challenge | This challenge seeks transformative solutions that are poised to reverse recent trends and significantly increase public trust in core institutions in the United States in the next five years. |
| 8,000,000 | No | 04/11/2025 | 01/23/2027 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Accelerating CO2 Conversion Technology Development and Deployment – Biological, Catalytic, and Mineralization Pathways | Research and development proposals to advance the pilot scale testing of carbon conversion technologies with high technology readiness level capable of achieving significant carbon mitigation via biological, catalytic, or mineralization pathways. |
| 7,200,000 | Yes | 03/14/2025 | 01/23/2031 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program (Limited Submission) | Collect, analyze, and report contaminant concentrations in Great Lakes top-predator fish, improve understanding of contaminant cycling throughout food webs, and screen for emerging chemicals in fish tissue. |
| 4,000,000 | No | 03/04/2025 | 01/23/2028 | Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) | Plant Engineering to Revolutionize Sustainable Energy Production and Heighten Opportunities for Novel Efficiency (PERSEPHONE) | Develop high-performance tools for bioenergy crop engineering, create novel genetic engineering modalities, and spur adoption by supporting innovative research on biocontainment. |
| 1,500,000 | No | 03/20/2025 | 01/23/2027 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Potato Breeding Research | Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) research programs that focus on varietal development and testing and potato varieties for commercial production. |
| 900,000 | No | 03/20/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative | Develop a community of researchers across both crops and animals that will lay the foundation for expanding knowledge concerning genomes and phenomes of importance to the agriculture sector of the United States. |
| 625,000 | No | 03/20/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Methyl Bromide Transition Program | Integrated commercial-scale research on methyl bromide alternatives and associated extension activity that will foster the adoption of these solutions. |
| 750,000 | No | 05/08/2025 | 01/23/2028 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | 1890 Institution Teaching, Research, and Extension Capacity Building Grants Program | Projects that strengthen research and extension programs in need areas of studies and experimentation, extension program development support systems, and others. |
| 2,750,000 | No | 04/22/2025 | 01/23/2030 | Department of Energy (DOE) | Early Career Research Program | Development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers. |
| 552,000 | No | 03/20/2025 | 01/23/2029 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification | Efforts to deliver timely, pertinent, and appropriate farm safety education to youth seeking employment or already employed in agricultural production. |
| 10,000,000 | No | 05/15/2025 | 01/23/2030 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) | A systems approach for projects are expected to significantly improve the supply of affordable, safe, nutritious, and accessible agricultural products, while fostering economic development and rural prosperity in America. |
| 750,000 | No | 03/11/2025 | 01/23/2029 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Higher Education Challenge Grants Program | Promotes and strengthens higher education in the food and agricultural sciences by formulating and administering programs to enhance college and university teaching programs. |
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |