Featured Opportunities

April 29, 2026

• The National Endowment for the Humanities solicits applications for the Landmarks of American History and Culture and Summer Institutes programs for Higher Education Faculty and for K-12 Educators that will take place in summer 2027 or summer 2028. Landmarks and Institutes are residential professional development programs that convene higher education faculty or K-12 educators from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. An Institute may engage any topic in the humanities. A Landmarks project must incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and situate the study of topics and themes within sites, areas, or regions of historic and cultural significance for the United States and its jurisdictions. Projects run from one to three weeks. While all participants must attend the duration of the program at the host site, you may organize virtual orientation or follow-up sessions. Given the importance of intensive, immersive study to a workshop, you should consider the academic year calendar when designing your schedule.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Lifelong Learning is accepting applications for the Curriculum Development: Western Civilization The purpose of this program is to support formal education by strengthening the teaching and study of the humanities at institutions of higher education. For 2026, projects must be focused on Western civilization, American history, American government and civics, and/or the Great Books tradition. You may focus on undergraduate education, graduate study, or a combination of the two. Your project may include fields outside traditional humanities disciplines – such as writing and composition, foreign languages, or workforce development – but must involve humanities faculty and must be grounded in humanities scholarship.
• This National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL)-- Expanding K-12 Resources For AI Education--seeks to build upon these investments to advance the goals of the Executive Order on Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth by providing resources for K-12 AI education. To advance the goals of the executive order, NSF will accept supplemental funding proposals from existing awardees with K-12 AI or computer science education experience to refine, scale, evaluate, and/or implement established K-12 activities. Further information about eligible awardees specific to their NSF Directorate can be found at the end of this DCL. Supplement proposals should be for specific and focused educational efforts at the K-12 level that address age-appropriate AI education/literacy, and/or the use of technologies in AI education to facilitate adoption by educational partners. Activities with the potential to be implemented in classrooms within 12 months of the supplement award date will be prioritized for funding.
• NSF’s Energy, Power, Control, and Learning (EPCL) program invests in fundamental research to advance the capabilities, performance, security and resilience of engineered systems. These advances can benefit the U.S. power grid, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and other critical infrastructure systems that enable economic growth and prosperity. EPCL supports research on systems and control, learning, optimization, and networked multi-agent systems. The program addresses a wide variety of systems and decision-making issues; examples include higher-level decision making, dynamic resource allocation, risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and game theory for system control and learning, as well as stochastic and hybrid systems. EPCL research may also involve advances in artificial intelligence (AI); examples include novel machine learning algorithms, new AI-assisted tools, adaptive programming, and brain-like networked architectures for real-time learning.. The program encourages collaboration among different fields to advance knowledge that will lead to new methods and technologies. While projects focus on fundamental advances in knowledge, they should ideally provide a clear vision of how research can influence real-world applications. These may include energy, transportation, robotics, biomedical devices and systems, or other uses.
• The Employment and Training Administration at the Department of Labor (DOL) is soliciting applications in support of the administration of the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) program on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The SEED program provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators to improve student outcomes. These grants will allow eligible entities to develop, expand, and evaluate practices that can serve as models to be sustained and disseminated.
• The objective of the Department of Energy, ARPA-E’s Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) 2026 program is to support 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 2026 will include dedicated events, meetings, and mentorship activities. This program will help ensure that the United States (U.S.) maintains its technological leadership in the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies.
• The Department of Energy, ARPA-E High-performance Optimized Recycled Nuclear Isotopes for Gen IV reactors (HORNIG) supports the development of transuranic (TRU) fuels from a largely untapped domestic fissile resource found across U.S. inventories. TRU fuels could expand the nation’s nuclear fuel supply while reducing the volume of radioactive waste. Establishing TRU fuels as an economic source of energy will bolster American industry, energy dominance, and national security by: • Strengthening fuel supply chains for nuclear reactors • Reducing reliance on foreign sources • Advancing American leadership in critical technologies • Supporting long-term deployment of new nuclear power plants - 7 - AR-311-05.25 High-performance Optimized Recycled Nuclear Isotopes for Gen IV reactors (HORNIG) will fund coordinated research and development efforts spanning fuel design, fabrication, testing, modeling, and qualification, along with analysis of cost, impact, and deployment pathways.
• Thie Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institute of General Medical Services’ (NIGMS) Focused Technology Research and Development (R01) NOFO supports projects relevant to the NIGMS mission that focus solely on the development of technologies with potential to enable acquisition of biomedical knowledge. Projects should be justified in terms of technical innovation and utility of such technical innovation for impacting future biomedical research. Outcomes or products of the proposed project should significantly advance the current state of the art and be sufficiently characterized for application in addressing a broad range of biomedical research questions. These outcomes may include, but are not limited to: laboratory instruments and other devices; algorithms and software; chemical reagents and processes; and biological molecules or systems that have been modified by human intervention for use as research tools. The goal of this NOFO is to support the development of technologies that have demonstrated proof-of-concept but must overcome significant technical hurdles to prototype development and tests of potential broad utility. As such, applications should not propose to test specific biological questions. Applications that do propose tests of specific biological questions are not responsive to this NOFO and will be administratively withdrawn without review. Applications with a focus on optimization, hardening, or obvious extrapolations of established technology will be a lower priority for funding.
• This Department of Energy, ERPA-E NOFO provides a continuing opportunity for the rapid support of early-stage applied research to explore innovative new concepts with the potential for transformational and disruptive changes in energy technology. Spurring Projects to Advance Energy Research and Knowledge Swiftly (SPARKS) awards are intended to be flexible and may take the form of analyses or exploratory research that provides the agency with useful information for the subsequent development of focused technology programs. SPARKS awards may also support proof-of-concept research to develop a unique technology concept, either in an area not currently supported by the agency or as a potential enhancement to an ongoing focused technology program. Applications must propose concepts that are not covered by open ARPA-E focused FOAs and that do not represent incremental improvements over existing technology.
• The purpose of the HHS, NIH Independent Scientist Award (K02) is to foster the development of outstanding scientists and enable them to expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field of research. The K02 award provides three to five years of salary support and "protected time" for newly independent scientists who can demonstrate the need for a period of intensive research focus as a means of enhancing their research careers. Each independent scientist career award program must be tailored to meet the individual needs of the candidate.
• The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields. The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues.
• The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community. Our research interests center on studies that examine ways to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We welcome descriptive studies that clarify mechanisms for reducing inequality or elucidate how or why a specific program, policy, or practice operates to reduce inequality. We also welcome intervention studies that examine attempts to reduce inequality. Recognizing that findings about programs and practices that reduce inequality will have limited societal impact until the structures that create inequality in the first place have been transformed, the Foundation is particularly interested in research to uproot systemic racism and the structural foundations of inequality that limit the life chances of young people.