Below are important announcements, resources and funding opportunities with deadlines that generally offer at least two months lead time. Should you need assistance identifying the right grant opportunities for your research, please fill out the Funding Opportunity Search Assistance (FOSA) form. If you wish to pursue any of these opportunities, please complete the Notice of Intent to Seek External Funding (NOISE) form at least 15 business days in advance of the submission deadline. 

Parkinson’s Foundation 2025-2026

Parkinson's Disease researchers are encouraged to consider the range of grants and fellowships available for the academic year. Many opportunities are competitive and require a Letter of Intent in October:

Space Research Opportunity for TAMUS Researchers
Application Due Date: September 22, 2025

The Texas A&M/Aegis Aerospace Multi-Use Space Platform Integrating Research & Innovative Technology (TAMU-SPIRIT) is a first-of-its-kind Texas A&M branded low-Earth orbit research platform to be flown aboard the International Space Station (ISS). It is a unique resource that can accommodate a wide range of experiments and samples for TAMUS faculty, researchers, and students.  The facility, a partnership between Texas A&M University and Aegis Aerospace, will provide experiment space on the Express Logistics Carrier 3 on the ISS for activities such as in-space research, testing, advanced materials manufacturing, robotics testing, space surveillance, and tracking technologies. Texas A&M researchers will have exclusive priority rights to send science, engineering, and technology experiments to be installed on the TAMU-SPIRIT Flight Facility. For questions, please reach out to: TAMU-SPIRIT@tamu.edu

National Science Foundation
Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)  (NSF 22-632)
Application Due Date:  December 1, 2025

CSSI enables funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI).  The program emphasizes integrated CI services, quantitative metrices with targets for delivery and usage of such services, and community creation, with three classes of awards:  Elements, Framework Implementations, and Transition to Sustainability.

National Science Foundation  
Geometric Analysis (PD-22-1265)
Application Due Date:  November 4, 2025

This program supports research on differential geometry and its relation to partial differential equations and variational principles; geometric methods in modern mathematical physics; symplectic geometry; geometric group theory; geometric data analysis; aspects of global analysis, including convex, complex, integral, and information geometries; and related geometric topics.

Texas Department of Transportation
Call for TxDOT Research Problem Statements
Due Date:  September 12, 2025

TxDOT is seeking research problem statements for FY2027 for transportation issues with the potential to result in solutions or favorable opportunities for TxDOT. 

US Department of Defense
xTechHumanoid
Application Due Date: October 1, 2025

The US Army is inviting applications for the first stage of a competition to demonstrate innovative prototypes in two topic areas:  Baseline Humanoid System, and Advanced Humanoid Subsystems. The competition is open to businesses and non-profit organizations, where the prototypes are not developed from other active US Government funding sources. After the initial $25K stage more funding is available at subsequent stages, depending on topic area.

US Department of Defense
BAA: Extramural Biomedical and Human Performance Research and Development (HT9425-23-S-SOC1)
Application Due Date:  Open (through July 31, 2028)

This NOFO focuses on developing innovative solutions for early intervention in life-threatening injuries, prolonged field care, human and canine performance, brain health, and mental health treatments. It prioritizes medical equipment that is compact, durable, versatile, and suitable for extreme operational environments encountered by Special Operations Forces.

Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF)
Application Due Date:  Accepted on a Rolling Basis

This fund is used to award grants to leverage Texas’s expertise and capacity and maintain the state’s position as the nation’s leader in semiconductor manufacturing. The Texas CHIPS Act establishes the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium (TSIC) and the TSIF for semiconductor research, development, manufacturing, and/or design.

USDA NIFA
AFRI – Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems
Application Due Date:  October 2, 2025

This NOFO supports plant research to advance our knowledge for the wide range of agricultural production systems found across the rural-urban continuum, from conventional or organic open-fields to protected built environments. Research should address critical or process-limiting dynamics that occur among and within the various management components of a production system using experimental manipulations of system components, technological interventions, system analyses, or modeling.

USDA NIFA
AFRI - Pollinator Health: Research and Applications
Application Due Date:  October 9, 2025

This RFA  supports novel hypothesis-driven research projects focused on improving our fundamental understanding of the factors and underlying mechanisms that drive pollinator declines and to develop innovative applied solutions that mitigate these factors and promote healthy populations of pollinators in agricultural systems. Studies involving ecological, behavioral, genomic, physiological, biophysical, sociological, and/or economic approaches will be considered for funding. Targeted multi-year monitoring of selected species in the context of hypothesis-driven research is also appropriate.

USDA NIFA
AFRI - Foundational Knowledge of Plant Products
Application Due Date:  October 16, 2025

This RFA supports projects to study the biosynthesis of plant-derived, high-value biomolecules for use in foods, pharmaceuticals, and other products. Projects must focus on agriculturally-important plants, but the choice of plant species must be justified. Molecular, biochemical, synthetic biology, or eco-physiological approaches may be used to determine the biosynthetic pathways for industrially-important biomolecules.

USDA NIFA
AFRI - Physiology of Agricultural Plants
Application Due Date:  October 23, 2025

This RFA supports projects to improve productivity or other performance factors of agriculturally-important plants (including weeds) using molecular, biochemical, whole-plant, agronomic, or eco-physiological approaches. The genetic basis of important traits identified through these studies are expected to inform breeding efforts towards improved yield or product quality, or growth resilience to adverse conditions.

USDA NIFA
AFRI - Plant Breeding for Agricultural Production
Application Due Date:  October 23, 2025

This RFA supports public breeding efforts to improve crop productivity, efficiency, quality, and performance; and address public breeding needs. This encompasses strategic and cost effective allocation of resources for: (1) generating and/or utilizing useful genetic diversity; (2) improving selection accuracy and intensity through direct or indirect phenotyping across relevant time scales and environments; (3) identifying, modeling, and exploiting, heritable epigenetic and genetic marks associated with desirable trait(s); (4) identifying, modeling, and implementing breeding methods that have potential to reduce the effective generation interval or timeline for cultivar release.

USDA NIFA
AFRI – Food Safety and Defense
Application Due Date:  October 16, 2025

NIFA invites proposals for basic and applied research that will reduce the risk of intentional or unintentional contamination of foods. See the RFA for the complete list of items to be addressed.

USDA
AFRI – Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
Application Due Date:  October 23, 2025

NIFA requests proposals for integrated projects that help prevent, and if needed control chronic disease across the lifecycle by supporting and encouraging, healthy dietary choices through data-driven, flexible, and person-focused approaches. Proposals must reflect understanding of the multifaceted and interactive nature of research, education, and extension-outreach. Project teams must reflect knowledge of having consistent access, availability, and affordability of foods and beverages that promote well-being and prevent diet-related chronic diseases.

Department of Justice
Office of Violence Against Women
FY 2025 Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative Notice of Funding Opportunity Application Due Dates:  

September 1, 2025:  LOI (optional)
September 23, 2025: Grants.Gov component
September 25, 2025: JustGrants application

This R&E supports studies aimed at preventing and addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking through researcher-practitioner partnerships and diverse methodologies. This NOFO invites proposals evaluating VAWA-funded interventions, trauma-informed law enforcement responses, technical assistance tools, and emerging innovations in victim services and offender accountability. Additional priorities include secondary data analysis, domestic violence homicide prevention, and multi-site evaluations of trauma-informed training.

International Institute of Forecasters
IIF-SAS Grant to Promote Research on Forecasting
Application Due Date:  October 11, 2025

This grant supports research on how to improve forecasting methods and improving business forecasting practice, including organizational aspects of the forecasting process, specifically focused on Business Applications and Methodology.  Sponsors are seeking proposals that either develop and assess new forecasting methodologies or apply forecasting principles to business decision-making and management.

National Institutes of Health

Support for Research Excellence – First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award (R16 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)  (PAR-25-415)

Application Due Date:  September 29, 2025 OR May 27, 2026

This program builds research capacity at institutions with limited NIH funding by supporting faculty-led biomedical research and providing students with hands-on research experience. It offers two funding opportunities: the SuRE-First Award for new investigators (who have never had any prior independent externally funded research grants) developing independent research programs with mentorship.  Support is provided by a dedicated SuRE Resource Center.

National Institutes of Health
Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award (R16 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (PAR-25-414)
Application Due Date:  September 29, 2025 OR May 27, 2026

This SuRE program strengthens biomedical research capacity at institutions with limited NIH funding by supporting faculty-led projects and student involvement, aiming to enrich institutional research culture. This SuRE funding opportunity is for investigators not currently funded by NIH Research Project Grants.  Support is provided by a dedicated SuRE Resource Center.

National Institutes of Health
Trailblazer Award for New and Early State Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) (PAR-25-169)
Application Due Dates: October 16, 2025 OR February 16, 2026

This NOFO is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences.  This project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data.

National Science Foundation

NSF STEM K-12 (NSF 25-545)

Application Due Date:  Proposals Accepted Anytime

This NOFO encourages innovative, multidisciplinary, and potentially transformative projects that build theory, generate new knowledge, and inform education practices in a rapidly evolving technological landscape with advances in emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI). It supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances STEM teaching and learning and improves understanding of education across the human lifespan and a range of formal and informal settings.

National Science Foundation
Social Psychology (PD-22-1332)
Application Due Date:  January 15, 2026

This program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought, motivation, emotion, neural, and physiological processes explain ways of thinking about and relating to self and others.  Proposed research should carry strong potential for groundbreaking discoveries about the power of social dynamics to shape peoples’ attitudes, behavior, and experience. Basic research that connects to emerging and ongoing global challenges is especially encouraged.

SEPTEMBER 10

Pre-Award Processes

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Research & Economic Development Building, Room 112

SEPTEMBER 18

From Idea to Impact: Unlocking Research Funding Opportunities

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: Research & Economic Development Building, Room 112

SAVE THE DATE!

2025 Fall RIED Research Academy

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Location: Research & Economic Development Building, Room 112

Coming Soon: Cayuse IRB, IBC and IACUC Faculty Training

We will soon be launching training sessions to support faculty in submitting IRB,IBC and IACUC applications via the new Cayuse software platform. Stay tuned for more details! 

Research Pre-Award, Post-Award and Compliance Training Opportunities 

RIED supports training for all grant management and research development functions, including Pre-Award, Research Compliance, Post-Award Processes and finding funding opportunities.  Please contact us via email at research@tarleton.edu to schedule training for your department.

Health/Public Input requested for OBBA Rural Health Transformation Program Funding

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) created $50 billion in federal funding to transform rural health care. Called the Rural Health Transformation Program, THHS is seeking ideas and input on concepts from stakeholders for how Texas should use the OBBBA.  Stakeholders are strongly encouraged to review OBBBA Public Comment Form Guidance (PDF) to ensure their comments and project ideas are considered.

NIFA’s Applications are Moving to eRA Commons
The following NIFA programs will transition to using the eRA grants management system in the first quarter of FY2026.  If you are planning on applying for one of these opportunities, please register for an eRA commons ASAP: 

Please see their announcement for more information on how to create an account with eRA Commons.

Please note: only new applications to the above programs are moving to eRA at this time; prior awards will operate under previous systems.

Upcoming Training:  The eRA team will host training to provide an introduction and high-level overview of eRA and its capabilities. This training is available to any potential grant applicants or current grant recipients. The training is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 11, 2-4 p.m. EDT. To join, register on our event page.

Looking Ahead:  NIFA is working to include additional programs throughout FY 26 and beyond. Keep an eye out for more updates as we continue to modernize our grants management system. For updates and announcements on NIFA's Grants Modernization Initiative (GMI) and eRA migration, visit the GMI webpage.

The NEA Foundation webpage provides a writing tutorial on how to write a successful grant proposal. 

Ready to pursue an external funding opportunity?

(Grant, Research Contract, LOI)?

Start by completing the NOISE form at least 15 business days in advance.

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