DOE Funding Alert!
Apply now: DOE Office of Science offers funding for foundational research across six programs, with awards ranging from $5k–$5M.
Allen Philanthropies
Funding call seeking innovative, scalable climate solutions. LOI due Jan 15, 2026; full proposal due Mar 10.
USDA AFRI-NIFA
Supports transdisciplinary research, education, and extension to strengthen U.S. agricultural systems. Awards $1M–$10M. Due 3/26!
Wellcome Foundation
Funding for projects on climate change and health that drive evidence-based policy action. Awards up to £2.5M, 3 years. Due 4/8/26
From the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | 06/30/2026 | Office of Naval Research (DoD-ONR) | FY25 ONR Office Of Naval Research (ONR) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Workforce Program | STEM education programs and activities focused on physical and natural sciences, technology, engineering, social sciences, mathematics, or environmental science education or stewardship. | |
| 200,000 | No | 04/01/2027 | 05/12/2027 | Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) | NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens | To maintain and improve the detection of antibiotics resistance among bacteria in food commodities by funding new and existing sites to conduct routine sampling and testing of retail food commodities. |
| 900,000 | No | 05/18/2028 | 05/12/2029 | Department of Defense (DoD) | Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Research areas that offer significant benefits to our national security, including: Engineering and Information Science (RTA), Physical and Biological Sciences (RTB), & international offices (EAORD, SOARD, and AOARD). |
| 1 | No | 05/30/2026 | DoD-DARPA | Expedited Research Innovation System (ERIS) | Long-term, open call for new technologies, processes, research, or methods that advance DARPA-related research and solutions (e.g., Advanced technologies for defense against chemical and biological threats, including agricultural crops, livestock). | |
| 2,400,000 | No | 09/30/2026 | 05/12/2031 | Department of Energy (DoE) | FY 2026 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | BER research priorities include that of the microbiome, atmospheric process, environmental systems processes, and earth-energy systems modeling. |
| 600,000 | No | 10/14/2026 | 05/12/2029 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science | Supports summer research experiences for K-14 educators that foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts and industry partners. |
| 750,000 | No | 10/26/2026 | 05/12/2031 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | Supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. |
| 50,000 | No | 07/23/2026 | Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants | Understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health. | |
| 1 | No | 11/01/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Applied Mathematics | Supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. | |
| 1 | No | 11/01/2026 | Department of Defense (DoD-DARPA) | Information Innovation Office (I2O) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) | Creates groundbreaking science and delivers future capabilities in the information and computational domains to surprise adversaries and maintain enduring advantage for national security (e.g., Transformative AI). | |
| 3,000,000 | No | 05/27/2026 | 05/12/2030 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Resource-Related Research Projects for Development of Models and Related Materials for Studying Human Health and Diseases (R24 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | Developing, characterizing, or improving research models of human health and diseases; developing biology based new approach methodologies; or improving access to information about or generated from the use of models of human disease. |
| 1,375,000 | No | 05/27/2026 | 05/12/2031 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional) | Supports basic research that increases our understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. |
| 1 | No | 12/31/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Open Calls (accepted anytime) | Search for full proposals to NSF that are accepted at anytime. | |
| 1 | No | 05/25/2026 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent PF5 Clinical Trial Optional) | To advance the NIH mission by maintaining strong, productive, and secure international research collaborations. | |
| 1,000,000 | No | 10/16/2026 | Simons Foundation | Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution (LOI) | Cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate levels of scale, from genes to species to communities, from local to global processes, or across ecological and evolutionary time scales. | |
| 500,000 | No | 08/07/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF 25-507: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | Examines how human behavior interacts with environmental and social processes, advancing geographical theory and geospatial methods. | |
| 1 | No | 06/15/2026 | USDA-NIFA-SCRI | Specialty Crop Research Initiative Pre-Applications | Address the critical needs of the specialty crop industry by developing and disseminating science-based tools to address needs of specific crops and their regions. | |
| 1 | No | 05/25/2026 | North Central Soybean Research Program (NCSRP) | Research Request for Proposals (RFP) | All new proposals should be focused on the challenge of Weed Management strategies within soybean cropping systems. | |
| 500,000 | No | 06/05/2026 | USDA-AMS | Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) | Supports the development, coordination, and expansion of direct producer-to-consumer marketing, local and regional food markets and enterprises, and value-added agricultural products. | |
| 80,000 | No | 07/10/2026 | Heising-Simons Foundation | Science Events and Gatherings Open Call | Supportingmeetings, workshops, conferences,summer schools, research collaboration gatherings, and other events related to astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics, and climate change science. | |
| No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Engineering Environmental Resiliencey | Supports fundamental research to advance resource and energy conservation and recovery, and to safeguard the natural environment and human health. | ||
| 100,000 | No | 05/27/2026 | The Hartwell Foundation | Individual Biomedical Research Award 2026 Competition (Limited Submission) | To stimulate discovery in early-stage biomedical research that has the potential to benefit children in the United States. | |
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