Featured Opportunities

July 29, 2026

• The National Pork Board’s Research RFP-National Pork Strategy focuses on knowledge gaps related to reducing the impact of domestic diseases and preventing incursions of foreign animal diseases. Submitters may submit proposals focused on one priority or multiple if the study design effectively addresses more than one. Submitters must identify which priority they are addressing in their proposal. Proposals must directly address the research priority, the subsequent objective, and the knowledge gaps identified above. Submitters must submit proposals that are well written, include a defined budget, and feature a robust study design that clearly addresses the research priorities. Submitters may submit multiple proposals. NPB will not pre-approve proposals, but encourages submitters to provide justification for how the work will impact producers.
• The Department Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Services’ Enhancing Biotechnology Market Opportunities for U.S. Exporters and American Farmers NOFO is intended to support activities that promote the America First policy agenda by expanding market access for U.S. agricultural products derived from biotechnology through the removal of barriers to the adoption, use, and trade of these products. Targeted engagement with trading partners and relevant stakeholders is critical to U.S. agricultural exports, and this funding opportunity supports efforts to protect and expand American agricultural production and trade. The recipient of this award will collaborate with USDA/FAS in the design and implementation of in-person and/or virtual seminars, workshops, and collaborative training events in Africa, Asia, Western Hemisphere/Latin America/Americas and other relevant economic bodies and organizations such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the African Union, the European Union, and others. These activities seek to support high level policy dialogue on agricultural biotechnology. USDA/FAS will work with the recipient on the selection of workshop venues, and the selection of participants to include country/government officials, scientists, key speakers and stakeholders. In addition, USDA/FAS and the recipient will collaboratively identify methods to evaluate the participants’ increase in knowledge on biotechnology topics.
• The Department of State’s Fulbright Generation250 Scholarship is a special one-off bilateral scholarship program established to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America in 2026 and celebrate the enduring strength of the Australia–United States Alliance. Created as part of the wider Freedom 250 anniversary initiative, the scholarship reflects the shared commitment of Australia and the United States to advancing innovation, security, prosperity, and international collaboration through education and research exchange. The program will support two Australian scholars and two American scholars to undertake high-impact research and collaboration in disciplines that directly contribute to the strategic, technological, and economic priorities shared by both nations. The scholarship also recognizes the historic role of the Fulbright Program in strengthening bilateral understanding and cooperation across generations of leaders, researchers, policymakers, and innovators. Projects are sought in all disciplinces.
• Agentic artificial intelligence is transforming how news and information are produced, distributed, and consumed. Through its Agentic AI and the Future of News and Information program, the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) seeks to fund research that examines these transformations with a particular eye towards emergent news institutions, journalistic innovations, and truth-seeking mechanisms in the future information ecosystem. Although scholars from any discipline are welcome to apply, IHS seeks applications from scholars of journalism, mass media, information systems, communications, and media production. We are especially interested in proposals that bridge disciplines, build community, or demonstrate potential real-world impact. Research deliverables can include peer-reviewed publications, shareable research databases, funding pitches, and experimental platforms.
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s Guggenheim Fellowship is a mid-career award supporting the work of individuals who have made notable contributions to more than fifty fields across the arts, humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary areas. Each year, roughly 200 Fellows are selected through a rigorous competition that assesses both past accomplishments and future plans.
• The Archeological Institute of America’s Julie Herzig Desnick Endowment provides grants to archaeologists to start new archaeological survey projects. The awards are intended for projects involving field survey on the ground or a combination of field survey and remote sensing methods, rather than those based entirely on satellite imagery or other remote sensing data. Geophysical survey projects are also eligible. While all are encouraged to apply, preference will be given to archaeologists at an early stage in their careers (within 8 years of the receipt of the PhD). Projects may concern any location in the world and any time period. Each project should make innovative use of technology, and the fieldwork proposed should be designed to address important questions about the human past.
• The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks Faculty Fellows for year-long residential fellowships who are conducting interdisciplinary research projects exploring play. Easily dismissed as frivolous, juvenile, or unserious, play represents a core human activity (homo ludens) with a rich tradition of scholarship in the humanities. We invite applications that approach ideas and concepts that address play in a critical spirit. Critical studies of play can be found in a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, literature, history, performance studies, music, theater, media studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and game studies. Theories about play explore the ludic, the spontaneous, or the rule-bound. We welcome studies of improvisation that may focus on imagination, creativity, and futurity. Studies of play may also address forms of play that affirm expertise or competence, containing play with culturally accepted rules (like grammar). Tacking between rules and improvisation, playing may involve players who demonstrate mastery and proficiency. Play may call for risk-taking, such as gambling or speculation. Play can be rewarding or punishing, spectacular or completely ordinary.
• The National Science Foundation’s Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) program will advance scientific community datasets to enable scientific discovery and innovation using artificial intelligence (AI) and other methods. Its goal is to increase the value that can be derived from existing scientific datasets by leveraging novel methods and artificial intelligence (AI). This will unlock new AI-driven insights. It can enable interdisciplinary research. It also enables investigations outside of the original motivation for data collection and analysis. The program seeks to 1) apply AI-based capabilities to feature extraction and metadata generation, and the integration of multiple datasets. 2) Develop robust data pipelines necessary for automated analysis of existing datasets and similar use-cases by AI tools and systems. 3) Augment and/or harmonize existing datasets to better enable use by AI data pipelines and automated analysis. Proposals should address dataset security and integrity. Governance and the process for scientific communities to contribute to the datasets should also be addressed. Proposals are encouraged to leverage existing resources. These may include NSF data platforms, the NSF Integrated Data Systems and Services program, the NSF-led National AI Research Resource, the Genesis Mission platform, or other national infrastructure.
• The goal of the National Science Foundation’sProcess Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics program is to advance fundamental engineering research on the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions, systems engineering, and molecular thermodynamics as they relate to the design and optimization of chemical reactors and the production of specialized materials that have important impacts on society. The program supports the development of advanced optimization and control algorithms for chemical processes, molecular and multi-scale modeling of complex chemical systems, fundamental studies on molecular thermodynamics, and the integration of these methods and concepts into the design of novel chemical products and manufacturing processes. This program supports sustainable chemical manufacturing research on the development of energy-efficient chemical processes and environmentally-friendly chemical products through concurrent chemical product/process design methods. Sustainability is also enhanced by research that promotes the electrification of the chemical process industries over current thermally-activated processes.
• The goal of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering of Biomedical Systems(EBMS) program is to provide opportunities for fundamental and transformative research projects that integrate engineering and life sciences to solve biomedical problems and serve humanity in the long term. Projects are expected to use an engineering framework (for example, design or modeling) that supports increased understanding of physiological or pathophysiological processes. Projects must include objectives that advance both engineering and biomedical sciences. Projects may include: methods, models, and enabling tools applied to understand or control living systems; fundamental improvements in deriving information from cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems; or new approaches to the design of systems that include both living and non-living components for eventual medical use in the long term. The long-term impact of the projects can be related to effective disease diagnosis and/or treatment, or improved health care delivery. However, immediate goals should focus on improved fundamental understanding of cell and tissue function in normal or pathological conditions and advancing biomedical engineering.
• The American Chemical Society’s Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant provides funding to early or mid-career investigators to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution, with the goal of establishing robust collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines and taking advantage of the mentorship of a faculty member distinct from their prior mentors. There is ample evidence that transformative innovations relevant to sustainability require cross-disciplinary collaboration and training, as well as connections between academia and industry. Yet, once a faculty establishes a research group, it becomes challenging to change course and identify opportunities for the application of one’s research when they require knowledge in tangential or sometimes orthogonal fields, such as chemistry and toxicology, synthetic chemistry and synthetic biology, catalysis, and computational chemistry, to name a few. Furthermore, it also becomes challenging to develop robust collaborations with colleagues in industry that allow a two-way exchange of innovation gaps and innovative research products. Such pivots are challenging for multiple reasons, including the fact that faculty would be required to relocate to another facility to acquire the desired training and establish collaborations. To this end, this grant is intended to stimulate and de-risk bold, cross-disciplinary training and collaborations that result in research that is readily applied to sustainability challenges.
• The Smithsonian Institution’s Fellowship Program offers in-resident opportunities for independent research and study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Fellowships are offered to graduate students, predoctoral students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct independent research and to utilize the resources of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff serving as advisors and hosts. Applicants to the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program must propose to conduct research in a discipline pursued at the Smithsonian and must submit a specific and detailed research proposal indicating why the Smithsonian is an appropriate place to carry out the study. Projects that broaden and diversify the research conducted within these disciplines are encouraged. Fellowships are offered to support research at Smithsonian facilities or field stations. Fellows are expected to spend most of their tenure in residence at the Smithsonian, except when arrangements are made for periods of field work or research travel.
• The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for Grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress. The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, independent researchers, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
• The Department of State, United States Mission to the United Kingdom, through its Liberty Under Law: The Shared Anglo-American Tradition NOFO, invites eligible organizations to submit proposals for innovative, high-visibility public education and civic-engagement programs in the United Kingdom that deepen public understanding of the shared Anglo-American common law tradition, and/or to commemorate the 70th anniversary in 2027 of the American Bar Association’s unveiling of the Magna Carta Memorial in Runnymede, UK that honors the foundation of the rule of law. Priority will be given to ambitious initiatives that connect foundational principles, such as freedom of speech, due process, trial by jury, limited government, rule of law, property rights, taxation by consent, and ordered liberty to contemporary civic life. Successful projects will combine scholarly depth with broad public accessibility through: 1) Major symposia or symposium series; 2) Traveling or “pop-up” educational exhibitions; 3) Speaker exchanges; and 4) Viral digital outreach. The goal is to foster a sustained national conversation in the United Kingdom that reinforces the enduring transatlantic partnership and the shared civilizational values that underpin it. This is a limited submission; thus, if you are interested in submitting to this NOFO, you must first contact the Office of Research Development via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu.