***Limited Submission***
NIH / Multiple Directorates (principally National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – NINDS)
Program: NIH Blueprint and BRAIN Initiative Program for Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences (BP BRAIN-ENDURE) (R25 — Education Projects)
NOFO #: NS-24-014
Synopsis: Supports educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this NOFO will support educational activities with a primary focus on:
- Courses for Skills Development
- Research Experiences
- Mentoring Activities
This initiative will provide institutional awards to develop neuroscience research education programs comprised of collaborative partnerships across different educational institution types that will consist of institutions whose historic and current mission is to educate students from underrepresented groups including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-serving Institutions (MSIs), with research-intensive institutions that have an established neuroscience or neuroscience-related program. These partnerships must also include (1) integrated curriculum / academic enhancement and research experience activities designed to increase participants' preparation to enter doctoral programs in the neurosciences; and (2) well-described plans to provide early communication and interaction between participating students and graduate neuroscience programs across the country.
Award details: Though there are no specific budget limitations, budget requests must be reasonable and well documented. The average award per program is estimated between $300K - $400K direct costs per year.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/rfa-ns-24-014/
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-24-014.html
USC Internal due date: November 8, 2024.
Letter of Intent due date: 30 days prior to application submission.
Application due date: February 10, 2025.
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Nissan Foundation
Program: 2025 Grants
Synopsis: Supports non-profit organizations with programs that explore and celebrate cultural diversity and heritage. Applicants must demonstrate a history of engagement with populations served and reflect an understanding of the mission of Nissan Foundation. Applicants must also serve audiences where Nissan has a significant operational presence, specifically southern California, middle Tennessee, central Mississippi, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Detroit, New York City, north central New Jersey, and Atlanta. USC’s Asia Pacific Museum is a recent recipient of this grant. Supports projects that will occur between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.
Award details: Recent awardees have received up to $50K in funding
Announcement on website: https://www.nissanusa.com/about/community.html#nissan-foundation
Letter of Intent due date: November 1, 2024. Applicants will be notified mid-January 2025 to submit a full proposal.
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Luce / American Council of Learned Scholars
Program: Luce / ACLS Travel Grants in China Studies
Synopsis: Supports graduate students in a Ph.D. program and non-tenure track faculty at any career stage travel for conducting basic research in China or conducting China studies-related research in databases, collections, and archives anywhere in the world. Scholars may use these funds to travel to libraries, archives and field sites, to establish contact with scholars in Chinese-language communities, and to secure necessary permissions for fieldwork or archival research.
Award details: $5K for travel and associated costs for 12-month period. Funds may be used for costs associated with travel (e.g., air and ground transportation, visas, living expenses); contacting scholars in Chinese-language communities; and accessing databases, collections, and archives (e.g., permits, fees).
Announcement on website: https://www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls-travel-grants-in-china-studies/
Application due date: November 14, 2024. The grant period begins between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025.
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The Teagle Foundation
Program: Cornerstone: Learning for Living
Synopsis: Supports colleges and universities to revitalize the role of humanities in general education, and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the power of the humanities; help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty. The application is a 2-step process beginning with submission of a concept paper. All concept papers should list two co-PIs who are tenured or tenure-track faculty and include a provisional list of faculty members who are interested in teaching with transformative texts. Institutions will be selected based on the design and scale of their proposed programs.
Award details: Planning grants to lay down the foundation for curriculum reform are $25K over 6-12 months; Implementation grants may be up to $300K over 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Cornerstone-Learning-for-Living#subsection-award_types
Concept paper due date: December 1, 2024.
Full proposal due date (invited): Early April 2025. Grant may start early summer 2025.
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Brady Education Foundation
Program: Research Projects
Synopsis: Supports research projects that have the potential to provide data that will inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities associated with race, ethnicity, and family income for children from birth through age 18. The Foundation is particularly focused on supporting research that is consistent with a strength-based perspective (i.e., recognizes the challenges and trauma historically and currently experienced by different communities as well as each community’s strengths and cultural wealth) and has the potential to inform practice, major philanthropic giving, and / or public policy.
Award details: Recent grants have ranged from $49K+ to $368K. Indirect costs for projects over $50K are capped at 10%; for projects under $50K, no indirect costs included. Primary institutions may not charge additional costs on sub award grants. The project may span 1 to 3 years.
Announcement on website: https://bradyeducationfoundation.org/
Proposal due date (Stage 1): December 1, 2024.
Proposal due date (Stage 2, invited): April 1, 2025.
NOTE: Funding cycles through 2027 are published.
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Spencer Foundation
Program: Research Grants on Education: Small
Synopsis: Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. The foundation seeks field-initiated rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. Field-initiated projects are defined as those that are not in response to a specific request for a research topic. PIs and Co-PIs applying for a Small Research Grant on Education must have earned a doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field. While graduate students may be part of the research team, they may not be named the PI or Co-PI on the proposal. Dornsife has had considerable success with Spencer’s small grants program.
Award details: $50K. No indirects are allowed. The maximum project period is 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant
Proposal due date: December 4, 2024. Spencer reviews applications to its small research grants program 3 times a year.
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American Psychological Foundation
Program: Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz
Synopsis: Supports graduate research projects and scholarship in child psychology. The program aims to nurture young scholars in areas of psychology, such as child-clinical, pediatric, school, educational and developmental psychopathology; and support scholarly work contributing to the advancement of knowledge in these areas. Applicants must have completed Ph.D. candidacy at the time of application and have demonstrated research competence and commitment to the area of study.
Award details: $23,900 for 2025-2026 academic year.
Announcement on website: https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/koppitz-child-psychology-fellowship/
Application due date: November 27, 2024. While an application for this funding opportunity will not go through the regular limited submission process, please be aware that APF accepts only one application per institution. If we get more submission information we will re-post with the additional info next week.
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Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation / Lever for Change
Program: Action for Women’s Health
Synopsis: Supports organizations around the world that advance women’s mental and physical health. Seeks proposals from eligible organizations that serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health. They should center equity in their approach and be poised to scale their work to strengthen the health of more women. Organizations from around the world are invited to apply. Activities that improve women’s health may range from improving women’s daily health, their longevity, their access to care, and their ability to engage in daily life and / or their ability to form and support a family. An existing department or program whose sole purpose is improving women's health may apply even if their parent organization has a broader purpose, such as a university.
Award details: Each awardee will receive flexible funding of $1M to $5M by the end of 2025.
Announcement on website: https://womenshealth.leverforchange.org/submit
Registration due date: December 3, 2024.
Application due date: January 10, 2025. Top scoring applications will then go through an external review, and may be requested to provide additional information between June and August 2025.
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Rutgers—New Brunswick / School of Management and Labor Relations / Employee Ownership Foundation
Program: Louis O. Kelso Fellowship
Synopsis: Supports outstanding scholars in the U.S. studying the topic of broadened ownership of capital in a democratic society. Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral scholars, or visiting professors in the areas of business / economics / labor studies / management, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy, or sociology are welcome to apply. The general theme of the fellowship includes the study of the idea and practice and public policy of broadening the ownership of capital assets in society such as the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which broadens the ownership of corporations, as well as approaches whereby consumers may have capital ownership of enterprises and individual citizens may have access to opportunities for capital acquisition. The relevance of these and other related ideas to the concept of economic democracy and democratic capitalism could also be pursued. The fellows may be supported at their home institution or may be in residence at Rutgers University with the period and length of residency varying between July 1 and June 30 of the academic year.
Award details: Stipend of $12.5K that can be utilized for research, travel, or living expenses.
Announcement on website: https://smlr.rutgers.edu/faculty-research-engagement/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing/fellowships-10
Application due date: December 31, 2024.
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McKnight Foundation
Program: Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award
Synopsis: Supports scientists working to apply the knowledge achieved through basic research to human brain disorders, and who demonstrate a commitment to equitable and inclusive lab environments. The Foundation proposals that address the biological mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This includes proposals that provide mechanistic insights into neurological functions at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level across different species, including humans and vertebrate and invertebrate model organisms. A new additional area of interest is the contribution of the environment to brain disorders. The foundation is also interested in projects that advance understanding how early-life environmental stress can be a powerful disposing factor for later neurological and psychiatric disorders, particular in communities of color are at higher risk for these stressors, which range from environmental (e.g. climate, nutrition, exposure to chemicals, pollution) to social (e.g. family, education, housing, poverty). From a clinical perspective, understanding how environmental factors contribute to brain disease is essential for developing effective therapies.
Award details: $100K per year for 3 years.
Announcement on website: https://www.mcknight.org/programs/the-mcknight-endowment-fund-for-neuroscience/neurobiology-of-brain-disorders-award/
Letter of Intent due date: November 4, 2024.
Full proposal due date (invited): mid-April 2025.
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The Grass Foundation (in partnership with the Kavli Foundation)
Program: 2025 Fellowships
Synopsis: Supports investigator-designed, independent research neuroscience projects by scientists early in their careers (late stage predoctoral and beyond). Successful applicants often take advantage of the model organisms available through the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. Supported approaches include neurophysiology, biophysics, integrative neurobiology, neuroethology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, systems neuroscience, cellular and developmental neurobiology, and computational approaches to neural systems.
Award details: A stipend, laboratory space, animals, equipment, and supplies for a summer in residence at MBL.
Announcement on website: https://grassfoundation.org/fellowship-overview/
Application due date: November 15, 2024. 14 week program starts Monday (Memorial Day) May 25, 2025 through Saturday, August 30, 2025.
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Program: Science Diversity Leadership Award
Synopsis: Supports excellent early to mid-career biomedical researchers with a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific field through their outreach, mentoring, teaching and mentorship. These researchers will have made significant research contributions to the biomedical sciences, show promise for continuing scientific achievement, and demonstrate leadership in efforts to diversify the sciences. Eligible applicants are faculty members who have been in their first independent position for at least three years and less than ten years.
Award details: $230K per year for 5 years, inclusive of 15% indirect costs. The award comes with reasonable flexibility on how these funds are used provided they are used to advance the awardee’s academic program.
Announcement on website: https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/science-diversity-leadership-award/
Letter of Intent due date: December 3, 2024.
Full application due date (invited): April 8, 2025. Grant starts September 2025.
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Department of Defense
Program: Minerva Research Initiative’s University Research – Initial Announcement
NOFO #: HQ003425NFO EASD
Synopsis: Supports innovative basic research projects that contribute to innovative basic research projects that contribute to the advancement of social science and provides new methods and understandings on social and behavioral questions of security and defense-related interests. This NOFO seeks projects on one of following topics of interest
(1) Societal Cohesion and Conflict;
(2) Advancing Influence Measurement(s)
(3) Arctic at the Polar Crossroads
(4) Cultural Resilience, Climate, and Human Security in Oceania
(5) Social Impact of Technological Change
(6) Deterrence and Competition across Military and Civilian Spheres
Award details: Minerva expects to make 15 awards. Award amount will be up to $1M over 3 years, plus an additional and optional 2 years.
Announcement on website: DoD Minerva Research Initiative - University Research
White Paper (and Topic area technical point of contact) due date: November 29, 2024 via email.
Full application due date: February 28, 2025 via grants.gov
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Department of Defense (DoD) / Navy
Program: NSWCDD University Research and Development Projects and Capstone Projects for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025
NOFO #: N00178-25-0002
Synopsis: Supports basic and applied research in the following categories
- College – University Student and Faculty Research projects
and collaborative efforts where the focus is upon priority technologies and capabilities performed at NSWCDD, and
- College – University Student Capstone and Senior Research projects for novel research projects whose intent is the development of future naval scientists and engineers
Please consult the solicitation for specific areas of interest for one or both categories.
All students must be U.S citizens. University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) are not eligible to submit proposals under this BAA. Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDCs), including Department of Energy National Laboratories, are not eligible to receive awards under this BAA.
Award details: Awards will range from $2.5K to $3,5M for the base year with two 12-month option years for a potential range of $2.5K-$3,5M inclusive of options. Average award value for grants under the FY24 submission cycle was $450K.
Announcement on website: NSWCDD University Research and Development Projects and Capstone Projects BAA
Proposal due date: BAA closes October 14, 2025.
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Department of Energy (DoE) / Office of Science / Program in Nuclear Physics (NP)
Program: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Applied to Nuclear Science and Technology
NOFO #: DE-FOA-0003458
Synopsis: Supports multi-institutional (not collaborative) research for the development and application of AI / ML in all research areas of NP to expand and accelerate scientific reach and discovery. Opportunities include AI to address challenges in autonomous control, efficiency of operation of accelerators and scientific instruments, digital twinning for future colliders, efficient extraction of critical information from large complex data sets and enabling data-driven discovery of new physics. Major areas of research may include, for example:
- Efficient extraction of critical and strategic information from large complex data sets:
- Development and implementation of digital twins for future colliders;
- Efforts to address the challenges of autonomous control and experimentation,
- Efficient operation of accelerators and scientific instruments,
- Deployment of AI for reduction of large and/or complex experimental data,
- Development of software to enable data-driven discovery of new physics
Award details: Up to $1M per year for 2 years.
Announcement of website: AI and ML Applied to Nuclear Science and Technology
Letter of Intent due date (required): November 14, 2024
Application due date (encouraged): January 14, 2025.
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Department of Energy (DoE) / Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E)
Program: Inspiring Generators of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2025 (IGNITE 2025)
Synopsis: Supports early-career innovators seeking to convert disruptive and unconventional ideas into impactful new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. The program aims to empower these early-career scientists and engineers in becoming independent researchers and unleashing their creativity to address the urgent energy-related challenges our society currently faces. In addition to funding research efforts, IGNIITE 2025 will include dedicated events, meetings, and mentorship activities. This program will help ensure that the U.S. maintains its technological leadership in the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies. Eligible candidates have earned a doctoral degree within eight years of the Concept Paper deadline, excluding any periods of extended leave occurring since the time the PI obtained their Ph.D.
Award details: Up to $500K for project duration of 2 years starting June 2025.
Announcement on website: IGNITE 2025
Concept Paper due date: November 15, 2024.
Application due date (invited): TBD. Invite / No Invite by January 27, 2025.
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Department of Energy (DoE) / Office of Science / Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Program: Genomics - Enabled Understanding and Advancing Knowledge on Plant Gene Function(s)
NOFO #: DE-FOA-0003452
Synopsis: Supports projects that will design bioenergy crops by developing
approaches to:
a) understand regulatory elements, biological mechanisms and develop predictive models for dissecting multigene traits and their component parts that govern plant growth under different growing conditions, biochemical and signaling pathways;
b) understand genetic components and molecular mechanisms underlying plant regeneration/organogenesis in tissue culture to improve heterologous DNA transfer to germlines of bioenergy crops; and
c) understand genetic and molecular mechanisms that will reduce the cycle time for out-crossing energy crops (e.g. self-incompatibility) to speed development of new plant feedstocks underpinning a more broader and more competitive U.S. bioeconomy.
PIs must be in a permanent or indefinitely extensible position, or long-term at the applicant institution, whether tenured, tenure-track, or a staff appointment. Individuals in term-limited appointments that may not be extended, whether as adjunct, visiting faculty, fellows, or similar appointments, are not eligible to be proposed as a PI.
Award details: Awards range from $750K to $3M over a project duration of 3 years.
Announcement on website: Genomics - Enabled Understanding and Advancing Knowledge on Plant Gene Function(s)
Pre-Application due date: December 2, 2024
Application due date: February 10, 2025.
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NSF / Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences—Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
Program: Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)
Solicitation #: 25-502
Synopsis: Supports fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of biomarkers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture.
Award details: $4M program support for all continuing or new awards. See solicitation for types of awards including CAREER
Announcement on website: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf25502.pdf
Proposal target dates: January 15, 2025 (January 15th annually thereafter); August 15, 2025 (August 15th annually thereafter).
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NIH / National Cancer Institute
Program: Epidemiologic Research on Emerging Risk Factors and Liver Cancer Susceptibility
NOFO #: PA-25-121
Synopsis: Supports epidemiologic research to expand our understanding of the etiology of the malignancy, including expanding investigations on unanswered questions related to viral hepatitis-associated liver cancer, and exploring emerging and novel risk factors that may contribute to the rising burden of liver cancer in the U.S. The funded projects will contribute to the body of evidence needed to inform evidence-based prevention and control strategies of liver cancer. While hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for approximately 85-90% of all primary liver cancer, this NOFO will also include support of applications seeking to better understand the etiology of other histological subtypes such as cholangiocarcinoma, hepatoblastoma, and angiosarcoma of liver. These subtypes are rare but add to the burden of primary liver cancer and have been under-investigated. Areas of research interest include (partial)
- The role of non-viral risk factors (e.g., obesity, diabetes, NAFLD, NASH, metabolic syndrome, alcohol consumption, or other environmental factors) and liver cancer (HCC and non-HCC) risk;
- Examination of novel hypotheses, risk factors, and biomarkers of liver carcinogenesis (e.g., cellular factors, telomere maintenance and length, metabolites, microbiome signatures, epigenomic alternations, gene expression and protein expression); and
- The role of pharmacologic factors (e.g. statin and metformin) and non-pharmacological supplements in liver cancer using population-based studies.
Award details: Application budgets must reflect the needs of a maximum project period of 5 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-121.html
Application due date: For new applications the due date is February 5, 2025; for resubmissions, revisions etc. the due date is March 5, 2024.
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