October 16, 2026
Dear Deans, Chairs and Center/Institute Directors:
Please share these funding opportunities and related research news with your faculty.
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Stony Brook University’s Patented Quantum Memory Technology Makes TIME’s Best Inventions List |
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Request for Comment: Draft NIH Biosafety Policy for Research Involving Biohazards |
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Translational Research Funding Opportunity: Center for Biotechnology BioREACH Program |
The BioREACH Award Program from the Center for Biotechnology provides $50,000 in translational research funding for Stony Brook faculty and postdoctoral researchers to generate the evidence needed to advance promising innovations to the next stage of development.
Visit the BioREACH website for info session, FAQ, eligibility, deadline, and program contact details, and to sign up for office hours
Application deadline: October 29, 2026, 5 pm ET
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Request for Information (RFI): Identifying the Next Generation of NSF X-Labs Topics |
The NSF has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on scientific and technological opportunities that could become future topics for the NSF X-Labs Initiative. Organizations, researchers, faculty, and students are invited to give input regarding what future technology or technological capability NSF should focus on for future X-Labs topics; bottlenecks to proposed topics and how to unlock future progress; readiness and evidence for proposed topics; reasoning, resources, and partnerships for proposed topics; and what disagreement or failure of proposed topics might look like.
Note: NSF will input all responses into AI tools during the evaluation process, and may publicly release responses. Please do not submit any proprietary, sensitive, classified, export-controlled, or personally identifiable information, since they may publicly release the responses.
Deadline: Anyone who is interested in responding directly to NSF as an individual may do so via the airtable form on the NSF website by October 30, 2026.
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Reports and Articles of Interest |
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McAllister & Quinn Weekly Opportunity & Strategic Intelligence Overview |
Every week, McAllister & Quinn's Research Universities Practice sends out a weekly opportunity overview. These comprehensive lists encompass research and development opportunities relevant to R1 and R2 institutions across the Federal government. Visit OPD's Grant Proposal Resource Repository for the latest overview and an archive of previous overviews and other resources.
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More workshops coming soon
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Active Limited Competitions and Canvasses |
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Recent Federal Executive Orders and other federal actions affecting federally funded research have resulted in changes to some federal funding opportunities. Consequently, we may need to update our posted limited competitions to remain aligned with these ongoing adjustments. We encourage you to check our website regularly for the latest updates, in addition to canvass and internal competition details and instructions.
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Program: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
Sponsor: NSF
Type: Internal Competition NSF MRI Call for Pre-applications
InfoReady Portal: NSF MRI Portal
Internal Deadline: October 19, 2026 at 9 am
External Deadline: TBD upon release of new solicitation
Institutional Limit: 4 (2 in Track 1; 1 in Track 2; 1 in Track 3)
Award Amount and Length: Track 1: $100K to $1.4M; Track 2: $1.4M to $4M; Track 3: $100K to $4M
Please note: We recently received guidance from an NSF MRI Program Officer that a new solicitation will be released in a few weeks after the start of FY2027 (October 1). Once the new solicitation is published, new submissions will resume with the new deadline occurring no less than 30 days after the publication date. Unfortunately, we have no information regarding changes to the solicitation. Despite this, and in order to ensure sufficient time for an internal competition, we are launching this limited competition prior to the release of the new solicitation.
The internal call is based upon the previous sponsor guidelines. Once the new solicitation from NSF is released, we reserve the right to make changes to the call during the competition, and applicants may be asked to re-submit their pre-application based on updated sponsor guidelines.
Program: X-Labs Initiative - AI for Physical Systems
Sponsor: NSF
Type: Internal Competition NSF X-Labs AI for Physical Systems Call for Pre-applications
InfoReady Portal: NSF X-Labs AI for Physical Systems Portal
Internal Deadline: October 19, 2026 at 11:59 pm
External Deadline: January 7, 2027
Institutional Limit: 2
Award Amount and Length: Phase 0: Up to $1.5M for 9 to 12 months; Phase 1: Up to $50M per year for 2 to 3 years
Program: DOE Genesis Mission Graduate Fellowship Pilot
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Type: Internal Competition DOE Genesis Mission Graduate Fellowship Call for Pre-applications
InfoReady Portal: DOE Genesis Mission Graduate Fellowship Pilot Portal
Internal Deadline: October 23, 2026 at 9 am
External Deadline: Required LOI due November 9, 2026; Full application due January 12, 2027
Institutional Limit: 1
Award Amount and Length: $12M to $25M over five years
Program: W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program
Sponsor: W.M. Keck Foundation
Type: Internal Competition Keck Foundation Call for Pre-applicaitons
InfoReady Portal: Keck Foundation Portal
Internal Deadline: October 26, 2026 at 9 am
External Deadline: December 7, 2026
Institutional Limit: 3
Award Amount and Length: Typical grants are awarded $1M to $1.3M over 3 years
Program: NSF Ecosystem for Low-dimensional Electronics: Growth, Assembly, Nanoelectronics, and Translation (NSF ELEGANT) OTASO
Sponsor: NSF
Type: Internal Competition NSF ELEGANT Call for Pre-applications
InfoReady Portal: NSF ELEGANT OTASO Portal
Internal Deadline: October 29, 2026 at 9 am
External Deadline: December 18, 2026
Institutional Limit: SBU can submit as Ecosystem Coordinator or as an Expert Performer Team, but not both. Limit to be updated upon clarification by sponsor.
Award Amount and Length: Award amount not listed. Award period 6 years. See Call for Pre-applications for details.
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Noteworthy Funding Opportunities |
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Conference and Workshop Grant
Sponsor: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Keyword(s): Anthropology, Social Science, Sociology, Humanities, Archaeology, Linguistics
Description: This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research.
Institutional Limit: No limits
PI Eligibility: We consider anthropology to include socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology or their equivalent in countries where these fields are named differently. The primary organizer must hold a doctorate in anthropology or a related field. Graduate students are welcome to act as co-organizers, but they must be listed as co-applicants for the purpose of the grant. The Foundation accepts a single resubmission of Conference and Workshop Grant application that was unsuccessful in a prior funding cycle. Applicants wishing to apply again must include a resubmission statement that addresses the reviewers’ comments and explains how their application has changed. We don’t allow applicants to have more than one submission for any Wenner-Gren program under consideration at the same time.
Award: $20,000
Cost Share: Not required
Deadline(s): December 1, 2026 and June 1, 2027
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