Featured Opportunities

December 3, 2025

• The United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, or BARD, was established over 40 years ago. The objective of their Senior Research Fellowship is to promote cooperative agricultural research between established scientists from the United States and hosts from Israel. Such fellowships should provide BARD and its scientists with input into advanced research areas and enhance scientific cooperation. The award amount is $3,000 per month plus a one-time allocation of $2,000 for travel and a duration of two to twelve months. The primary criteria considered for an award are the credentials of the fellow and his ability to introduce innovative scientific methods and ideast o the host lab, the scientific merit and innovation of the proposed work, its relevance to agriculture, the cooperation in the proposed and future research, and the benefit that can be derived from the candidate's interaction with the Israeli scientific community.
• Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special and distinct collections. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). These grants, which have a value of up to $6,000 plus transportation costs, are meant to help defray expenses incurred in traveling to and residing in Princeton during the tenure of the grant. The length of the grant will depend on the applicant’s research proposal but is ordinarily between two and four weeks. Library Research Grants can be used from May of the year they are awarded through the following April.
• Through the Winterthur Fellowship Programs, fellows can utilize the hundreds of thousands of American and European imprints, manuscripts, trade literature, ephemera, photographs, and archives of the Winterthur Library, an independent, world-class research collection. They can also examine Winterthur Museum’s expansive object collections of more than 90,000 artifacts that help us broadly understand four centuries of everyday life in America in a global context. They can look at these collections with specialists and experts and consult with conservators and scientific staff. They can explore 7,500 plant specimens and more than 1,000 acres of landscape and gardens, using these spaces and materials for research, or for respite and recharging. Fellowship privileges and policies can be found here.
• The mission of the Roman J. Witt Residency Program is to support an artist in the production of new work in association with the University of Michigan’s Stamps School of Art & Design. During the Witt Residency it is expected that the resident actively engages with the Stamps and Institute of Humanities (IH) community. To this end, a portion of the resident’s time at the university will be spent in direct interaction with students and faculty. Possibilities for interactions include but are not limited to: students working directly with the resident on artistic production; students interviewing resident; students observing resident’s process; resident dialoguing with students and faculty both in and outside of classes; resident providing critiques of student work; resident giving public talks/​lectures/​workshops; resident hosting open studio hours. The residency is expected to culminate in the realization of the proposed work, as well as its presentation.The Institute for the Humanities will provide their renowned contemporary gallery as an installation and project space. The gallery has long been a nimble and progressive place, a space for critical inquiry with the ability to respond to complex and timely issues. Each exhibition offers a point of accessibility for public engagement, making more visible the connection between humanities research and real-world problems, with a deliberate commitment to social practice.
• Through its Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-NET) solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American innovation economy if they so desire. To support collaboration within the S-STEM network, NSF will first fund several S-STEM Research Hubs (S-STEM-Hub). The S-STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) will collaborate to create synergies and sustain a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting domestic low-income STEM students in achieving their career goals, while also ensuring access, inclusion, and adaptability to changing learning needs. The Hubs will investigate evolving barriers to the success of this student population. They will also disseminate the context and circumstances by which interventions and practices that support graduation of domestic low-income students (both undergraduate and graduate) pursuing careers in STEM are successful. This is a limited submission opportunity. If you are interested in applying to this program, you must notify the Office of Research Development by 5 pm on April 1, 2026 via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH announced that at or around February 28, 2026, it will release its Seed Instrumentation Support (SIS) Program (S10) funding opportunity. This NOFO aims to build new research capacity by supporting the purchase of a single commercially available biomedical research instrument currently unavailable in the institution. Instruments funded through this program must be shared among the users to create new research opportunities, enable reproducible data generation, encourage collaborative research and training, and strengthen long-term research capabilities. The minimum award is $50,000. While there is no limit on the total cost of the instrument, the maximum award is $400,000.
• The objective of the Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Statement of Need (SON) is to solicit innovative research that leads to a better understanding of the environmental fate and transport of chemicals released from tires and tire wear particles (TWP). Of particular interest is the transformation product, 2-anilo-5-[(4-methylpentan-2-yl)amino]cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-dione (6PPD-quinone), which has been implicated in toxicity to coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and other salmonids at environmentally relevant concentrations. This work should focus specifically on 6PPD-quinone and its parent compound, 6PPD, but can include other known tire-derived organic pollutants (TDOPs) such as other p-phenylenediamine derivatives, N,N-dicyclohexylmethylamine (DCA), or 1-cyclohexyl-3-phenylurea (CPU).
• The Department of Defense, DARPA, Information Innovation Office (I2O) creates groundbreaking science and delivers future capabilities in the information and computational domains to surprise adversaries and maintainen during advantage for national security. Through its Office-Wide BAA, I2O efforts typically address one or more of the following key thrust areas: transformative AI; Resilient, Adaptable, and Secure Software and Complex Systems; Offensive and Defensive Cyber Security and Privacy; and Fighting in the Information Domain. I2O may also consider submissions outside these thrust areas if the proposal involves the development of novel capabilities having a promise to provide decisive information or computational advantage for the United States and its allies. I2O seeks unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream, challenge accepted assumptions, and have the potential to change established practices radically. Proposed research should enable revolutionary advances in science, technology, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of the art.
• The translation of research to practice ensures that the insights and innovations developed through scientific study and experimentation have tangible, positive impacts for the Nation. To help with this translation, NSF developed its Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) The NSF TTP program offers three tracks that represent different starting points or stages in moving discoveries and innovations from the laboratory to practice: 1) NSF TTP-Explore (NSF TTP-E) is a pilot track that is likely to be the first step for researchers seeking to translate their basic research to practice; 2) NSF TTP-Translate (NSF TTP-T) starts with use-inspired research and initial translational activities and further matures the idea(s), iterates and improves the solution(s), and lowers the barrier(s) to effective translation of research from lab to practice; and 3) NSF TTP-Partner (NSF TTP-P) supports translational efforts that demand one or more partnerships for technology development and deployment. Here, strategic partnerships with stakeholders beyond U.S. institutions of higher education are essential ingredients for success
• The objective of Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program’s (SERDP) Environmental Heterogeneity and Species Population Management under External Stressors Statement of Need (SON) is to advance understanding of how demographic responses of species of concern, including threatened, endangered, or at-risk (TER) species, to external stressors on Department of Defense (DoD) installations are influenced by spatial and temporal heterogeneity. Spatial variation in microclimate, soils, nutrients, food resources, shelter, and other factors can provide locally favorable or detrimental conditions for TER and other species. Better understanding of these effects can provide useful conservation tools for mitigating regional stressors that are beyond the control of installation managers, and support more robust assessment of species vulnerability to those stressors. Proposals should focus on one or more species of concern that occur on DoD installations, particularly those that are endemic to or disproportionately represented on DoD lands and waters. Projects may include observational, experimental, and/or modeling components. Projects and products should identify sources and levels of uncertainty. Investigators are expected to work closely with DoD installation managers during project design and execution. Particular attention should be given to management or mission activities that affect spatial heterogeneity and/or temporal variability.
• NSF’s Law & Science program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of law and basic sciences, including biology, computer and information sciences, STEM education, engineering, geosciences, and math and physical sciences. Scientific studies of law often approach law as dynamic, interacting with multiple arenas, and with the participation of multiple actors.