East-West Center
Program: Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports Fellows from diverse backgrounds to explore how leadership can strengthen systems that balance economic growth, resource availability, and long-term sustainability. From personal food security to societal energy transitions, and who will investigate strategies for providing reliable access to essential resources. Through storytelling, exploring perspectives, and immersive experiences, the program will foster meaningful conversations that unite different viewpoints and help shape a future where food and energy systems are both reliable and sustainable. Eligible candidates have 5 to 10 years of professional leadership experience in any aspect of food and energy systems, including advocacy work in these sectors. Experience may comprise but is not limited to: elected officials, government agency representatives, advocacy group leaders, topic experts, community and industry leaders, artists, activists, and social and business entrepreneurs. Eligible candidates also currently or have experience in the Indo-Pacific region. Must be proficient in English and must be able to travel in October and November 2025 and one week in May 2026.
Award details: The Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship provides fellows with round-trip airfare to and from the program locations, program fee and materials, accommodation, travel insurance, meals, and some applicable visa-related costs (if required).
Announcement on website: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/indo-pacific-futures-fellowship
Application due date: April 18, 2025.
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The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
Program: Harwood Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports scholars in the social sciences and humanities with a long-term residential fellowship. AIER’s fellowships are intended for full-time professional researchers at all stages of their career. Academics, journalists, and think-tank researchers are all welcome to apply. Advanced doctoral students are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Award details: $350 per week for 10-12 weeks at AIER’s campus in the Berkshires. Fellows stay in world-class accommodations, while AIER takes care of airport and rail transfers and weekday lunches. AIER’s unique campus in the Berkshires affords both a peaceful environment to work in and opportunities for relaxation. You will stay in their world-class accommodations, while AIER takes care of airport and rail transfers and weekday lunches.
Announcement on website: https://aier.org/visiting-research-fellowships/
Application due date: Long-term (Harwood) fellowship applications are reviewed quarterly. The deadline for fall fellowships is April 1, for winter fellowships July 1, for spring fellowships September 1, and for summer fellowships January 15.
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Leakey Foundation
Program: Research Grants
Synopsis: Support both Ph.D. dissertation research and post-Ph.D. research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior. We prioritize funding for the exploratory phases of promising new research projects and innovative, multidisciplinary approaches that expand the boundaries of our current understanding. The disciplines supported include archaeology, biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, primate behavioral ecology, genetics, geology, anatomy, morphology, paleobotany, and paleoclimatology. Leakey’s current funding focus areas include: Paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; Primates: Evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies; Modern hunter-gatherer groups.
Award details: Up to $20K for Ph.D. candidates; Up to $30K for postdocs.
Announcement on website: https://leakeyfoundation.org/grant/research/
Application due date: July 15, 2025 for fall cycle.
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Wenner-Gren
Program: Post-Ph.D. Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. Our goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or subfield. The Foundation welcomes proposals that integrate two or more subfields and pioneer new approaches.
Award details: $25K
Announcement on website: https://wennergren.org/program/post-phd-research-grant/
Application due date: May 1, 2025 for projects that start between July and December 2026.
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VinFuture Foundation
Program: VinFuture Prize
Synopsis: Supports, recognizes, and honors scientific research and breakthrough technological innovations that make a difference in the lives of people across the globe. The VinFuture Foundation's core values include equity (leveraging the power of science and technology to serve marginalized communities), global reach (focus on technologies that will have a large-scale positive impact for billions of people), sustainability (supporting projects that improve the lives of others, while preserving the environment and natural resources for future generations) and pioneering (supports the work of early-career researchers’ breakthrough science and technology).
Award details: Grand Prize: $3M. There are 3 other prizes for the amount of $500K: Women Innovators; Outstanding achievements in Emerging Fields; and Innovations from Developing Country(ies).
Announcement on website: https://vinfutureprize.org/vinfuture-prize-nomination/
Nominations due date: April 17, 2025.
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MIT Solve
Program: The Trinity Challenge
Synopsis: Supports multidisciplinary teams worldwide to address the challenge: How can data and technology improve stock control and / or reduce the use of substandard and falsified oral antibiotics for community use in low- and middle-income countries? Teams can be individual organizations or a consortium with one acting as the lead organization. The solution and Challenge Team must pass due diligence checks and adhere to the generative AI policy.
Award details: ~$541K grand prize in each category of the Challenge (Stock Control and Substandard and Falsified Antibiotics). Other prizes may be made at the discretion of the judges, e.g. runner-up prizes or honorable mentions.
Announcement on website: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/trinity-challenge-community-access-antibiotics
Application due date: April 24, 2025.
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Program: Climate Change and Human Health
Synopsis: Supports activities that build connections between basic /
early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or new interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, for example, developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Proposals from single institutions must develop partnerships that do not already occur naturally: for example, proposals from departments that draw students from the same shared graduate program are not responsive to this call. Proposals from more than one institution are responsive.
Award details: Awards range from $2.5 to $50K.
Announcement on website: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/climate-change-and-human-health-seed-grants/
Online Application due date: Rolling until July 2026 with quarterly due dates. The next quarterly due date is April 24, 2025.
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Phycology Society of America (PSA) (graduate students)
Program: Croasdale Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports graduate students to broaden their phycological training by defraying the costs of attending phycology courses at biological field stations. The purpose of the award is to broaden phycological training and not necessarily to further research goals. Proposals to study at field stations associated with universities other than the student's own are especially encouraged. Fellowship support to attend courses unaffiliated with an academic field station should be requested from the Grants-in-Aid of Research Program. Applicants must be members of PSA.
Award details: Fellowship awards are made in the amount of up to $2,250 and are intended to defray costs incurred in taking the course: tuition, travel, room and board. Awards are made directly to the student or payable to the institution offering the course in amounts up to $2,250 each.
Announcement on website: https://www.psaalgae.org/croasdale-award
Application due date: January 1, 2026.
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The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Program: Innovative Cancer research
Synopsis: Supports research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period, which will allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers. It is anticipated that this early-stage funding by the Foundation may lead to subsequent and expanded support using government agency funding. Papers verifying nonprofit status and relevant human subjects and experimental animal treatment approvals from the recipient institution will be requested prior to project initiation. A final report summarizing financial expenditure and research achievement is required.
Award details: There are no limits set on the grant amount that can be requested. It must be reasonable and clearly supported by the scope of the project outlined in the application. Applications requesting more than 5% overhead are usually not considered.
Announcement on website: https://pardeefoundation.org/how-to-apply/
Application due date: Three application cycles a year. The next due date is: April 30, 2025.
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Angelman Syndrome Foundation
Program: Call for Research Proposals
Synopsis: Supports research related to Angelman syndrome, a rare neuro-genetic disorder, in the following priority areas:
- Projects studying or correcting the heterozygous effect of non-UBE3A genes in deletion;
- Projects studying the potential results of increasing UBE3A after therapies or for some subtypes of AS;
- Projects studying delivery of therapies and potential for improvement; and
- Symptomatic therapies that impact the daily life of people with Angelman syndrome and their families.
The Foundation will also welcome and consider research focused in other areas of Angelman Syndrome, as well.
Award details: Up to $100K for one or two awards.
Announcement on website: https://www.angelman.org/as-research/call-for-proposals/
Application due date: The Angelman Syndrome Foundation accepts research proposals on a continual basis, with submission deadlines for subsequent review occurring on August 15.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Program: The North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Standard Grants
NOFO #: F26AS00004
Synopsis: Supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The program promotes partnerships projects that must involve a) only long-term protection, restoration, enhancement and/or establishment of wetland and associated upland habitats to benefit diversity of wetland ecosystems and b) maintaining an abundance of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans) and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, Waterbird Conservation Plan for the Americas, and Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan. The program requires a 1:1 non-federal match and research funding is ineligible. This program supports the Department of Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission of protecting and managing the nation's natural resources by collaborating with partners and stakeholders to conserve land and water and to expand outdoor recreation and access.
Award details: Grants will range from $250K up to $3M. Requires 1:1 cost share. The anticipated project period is 2 years.
Announcement on website: NAWCA
Application due date: July 10, 2025. The anticipated project period start date is
May 1, 2026 and anticipated project end date is May 1, 2028.
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National Ocean Service (NOS) Office of Coast Survey
Program: Joint Hydrographic Center 2025
NOFO #: NOAA-NOS-OCS-2025-30451
Synopsis: Supports a cooperative agreement between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and an institution of higher education to operate a Joint Hydrographic Center as authorized in the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act and the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act. Program priorities include
- Technology to Expand and Strengthen U.S. Capabilities to Acquire High-Value Ocean and Coastal Geospatial Data (Acquiring data; adding value to data; supporting ocean and coastal economic activity);
- Delivery of Marine Geospatial Products and Services;
- Develop and Advance Marine Geospatial and Soundscape Expertise.
Award details: This will be a 5-year, multi year award. The intent is to make a single 5-year award. Total anticipated funding for this award is approximately $47M with approximately $9,500M to be released in FY 2025 and each subsequent year of the 5 years.
Announcement on website: Joint Hydrographic Center 2025
Application due date: May 27, 2025.
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NASA / Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)
Program: University Leadership Initiative (ULI)
Solicitation #: NNH24ZEA001N-ULI2
Synopsis: Supports university teams to exercise technical and
organizational leadership in proposing unique technical challenges, defining
Interdisciplinary solutions, establishing peer review mechanisms, and applying innovative teaming strategies to strengthen the research impact that are aligned with ARMD’s strategic goals articulated in the solicitation. ULI is soliciting thrust-driven research in the following 6 strategic areas:
- Safe, Efficient Growth in Global Operations
- Innovation in Commercial High-Speed Aircraft
- Ultra-Efficient Subsonic Transport
- Safe, Quiet, and Affordable Vertical Lift Air Vehicles
- In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance
- Assured Autonomy for Aviation Transformation
Award details: Proposals should have nominal budgets in the $1-2M range per award per year. Maximum total budgets should range between $3-6M per award for a 3-year award and $4-8M per award for a 4-year award.
Announcement on website: ULI
Application due date: University Leadership Initiative will use a 2-step proposal process. Step-A proposals are required, in place of the Notice of Intent (NOI) and are due 06/26/2025, 5PM ET. Step-B proposals will be due 60 days after the notification for Step-B proposals is issued.
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NSF / Across 8 Directorates (including BIO, STEM, GEO, MPS, SBE and others)
Program: Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE)
Solicitation #: PD 25-345Y
Synopsis: Supports multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire. All areas of science, engineering, and education supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation are included in this program. Projects developed by a wide array of groups including, for example, academics, educators, scientists, community members, students, industry partners, practitioners, resource managers, and Tribal representatives, working together to generate new knowledge of the interactions among biological, social, geoscientific, and engineering processes encompassing multiple fields, scales, and perspectives on wildland fire are encouraged. FIRE proposals should demonstrate strengths in one or more of the following areas: (1) new advances in data collection, storage, and sharing relevant to wildland fire dynamics, including Earth observations; (2) new modeling and computational approaches to understand wildland fire (including artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches); (3) new understanding of the cross-scale interactions of wildland fire across local, regional and global extents; (4) new insights into community adaptation and governance relevant to wildland fire; (5) new approaches to reduce the vulnerability of built infrastructure, natural fuels, and social systems to wildland fire; and (6) engagement of a variety of community members and stakeholders to promote a forward-looking approach to wildland fire science.
Award details: No details
Announcement on website: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fire-fire-science-innovations-through-research-education
Target Window Submission: June 12, 2025 to June 20, 2025
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