Featured Opportunities

October 14, 2026

• A Private Company, via the Halo Marketplace, is seeking novel physical or environmental deterrence devices and technologies that offer proven prolonged (1 month minimum) efficacy in repelling and/or deterring common rodent species (mice and rats). Relevant solutions should provide a continuous protective shield around one or more of the following residential living areas: basements, attics, storage sheds, barns, and immediate perimeters. Any future consumer-facing hardware should prioritize low maintenance, simple DIY installation, and long-term unattended operation, while maintaining high repellency performance, child and pet safety, and non-disruptive household integration. Solutions of interest include: 1) Perimeter & Barrier Technologies: Active or passive physical, sensory, or environmental technologies that deter rodents from protected areas or prevent entry into structures; 2) Targeted Release & Delivery Systems: Precision dispenser, extended release carriers, and supporting components that can be paired with natural repellent, semiochemicals, or sensory deterrents; 3) Repellent Actives & Formulations: Natural or synthetic rodent repellents, including semiochemicals, for incorporation into delivery systems; and 4) Eco-Conscious Design: Deterrence hardware incorporating sustainable materials, energy-efficient power design, & low-environmental-impact manufacturing.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress (LC) to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. jurisdictions. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at LC and will be freely accessible online (see the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website). NEH welcomes applications that involve collaboration between state and jurisdictional partners, which might involve arrangements to manage the creation and delivery of digital files; regular and ongoing consultation about project management; or formal training for project staff. States and jurisdictions are encouraged to digitize titles published within their current geographic boundaries, including those from Native American Tribal nations, but cases for digitization beyond such boundaries can be made. For example, a state may digitize Native American newspapers that were published in another state, or a state may partner with a jurisdiction to digitize the newspapers from there. If you propose to digitize titles published outside of what is now your state or jurisdiction, you must provide the rationale for doing so. This is a limited submission opportunity with only one submission allowed per institution. If you are interested in applying, you must notify (working title, team list, short synopsis) the Office of Research Development by 5 pm October 28, 2026 via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu.
• The National Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fellowships allow research of aviation and space history for publication or a doctoral dissertation at the National Air and Space Museum open to pre- and postdoctoral candidates. Candidates are encouraged to pursue programs of research and writing that are scholarly in tone and substance and intended for publication as articles in peer-reviewed journals, in book form from a reputable publisher, or in a doctoral dissertation. Founding support for the Guggenheim Fellowship Program is provided by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. Additional support is provided by France A. Córdova and Christian J. Foster through the Armstrong-Ride Endowment. Eligible predoctoral candidates are students who have completed preliminary coursework and examinations and are engaged in dissertation research. Postdoctoral candidates are applicants who have received a Ph.D. degree or equivalent within seven years of the beginning of the Fellowship period. Recipients must have completed that degree at the time the Fellowship commences.
• The Editing Press’ Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the awards for master’s candidates, doctoral candidates, and junior academics is remitted solely through editorial assistance, and their amounts reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. These three awards are open to all currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates and to academics in the first five years of full-time employment, with no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions.
• The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (I Tatti) Fellowship in the Digital Humanities supports the work of scholars in the humanities or social sciences, librarians, archivists, and data science professionals whose research interests or practice cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and actively employ technology in their work. Projects can address any aspect of the Italian Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century, and geographically to include transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian, etc.). Projects should apply digital technologies such as mapping, textual analysis, visualization, or the semantic web to topics in fields such as art and architecture, history, literature, material culture, music, philosophy, religion, and the history of science. I Tatti offers Fellows the precious time they need to pursue their studies with a minimum of obligations and interruptions together with a maximum of scholarly resources- a combination that distinguishes the Harvard Center from similar institutions. Each year, a limited number of activities organized at I Tatti are reserved for the Fellows, and they are expected to join the wider community at conferences, lectures, and concerts.
• The Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Warfare Directorate (RJ), through its Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement-Call 004, seeks sources capable of supporting the program’s fundamental and advanced research in space and environmental impacts technologies. Additionally, the program is interested in understanding and quantifying the impact of the space environment on Department of Defense and National Security Systems and in achieving a capability to specify, predict, mitigate, and exploit the effects of the space environment that can disrupt or degrade operational systems. This Call is specifically requesting potential Offeror(s) to provide interdisciplinary proposals addressing Topic 1 from the Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA): Topic area 1. Solar, Solar Wind, and Ionospheric Effects.
• Even with today’s major advances in medical imaging and tools, important biological changes remain difficult or impossible to see. This limits medicine’s ability to detect disease early. Conditions such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (a progressive brain disease), neurodegenerative disorders, pancreatic cancer, and other chronic diseases are often only seen after significant—and sometimes irreversible—damage has occurred. The Department of Health and Human Services, ARPA-H’s UNifying​ Imaging with​ QUantum​ Entanglement ​(UNIQUE) program’s goal is to expand what medicine can measure. The program aims to capture information about tissues and molecules that standard anatomical, functional, or molecular imaging may miss. UNIQUE will explore a new source of biomedical imaging contrast based on quantum-derived observables and test whether these signals can provide biologically meaningful information that complements today’s imaging tools. If successful, UNIQUE would establish a new imaging paradigm that integrates anatomical, functional, molecular, and quantum-derived information, laying the foundation for the next generation of biomedical imaging.
• The three main lines of effort are associated with the Department of the Army, Army Research Lab, Material Command’s Army Applications Lab Broad Agency Announcement for Disruptive Applications (BAA) are discovery, acceleration, and translation of disruptive technology applications: 1) Discovery of novel capability concepts that capitalize on emerging technologies and application insights from the widest possible range of sources; 2) Acceleration of disruptive applications of technology that delivers a 2-4 times improvement over current or planned Army capabilities through the research, development, and validation of technology demonstrators; and 3) Translation of breakthrough innovations that create a scalable, first-mover advantage for the Army in strategic technology areas by synchronizing knowledge generated in the discovery and acceleration phases with key decision points across the Army Future Force Modernization Enterprise (FFME). Solutions consistent with these three functions and reflective of priorities, technical challenges, and problems associated with the FFME will be solicited through this BAA.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, K-INBRE Bridging Grant provides interim support to help a project in Biomedical Research continue for an eligible investigator who has submitted a grant (e.g., R01, R21, R16, R15) to NIH that was approved on the basis of scientific merit, but fell short of the funding range (applications with a poor impact score or if percentiled, high percentile ranking, will not be considered). These funds should assist in providing data needed to submit a revised application to NIH. Proposals must outline how the bridging grant addresses reviewers' concerns and will lead to a more robust revised application. The resources available have been earmarked exclusively to help an on-going project that has just missed the funding cut-off to keep momentum going until NIH funds are secured. K-INBRE also sponsors the Developmental Research Project Program (DRPP) designed to support young investigators to aid them in building their research programs.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is announcing the Quantum-Enabled and Advanced Detection Approaches for Predictive Preclinical NAMs for Toxicity and Safety (Qu-SAFE) Challenge as part of the NIH Quantum Biomedical Innovations and Technologies (Qu-BIT) Program. NIH defines NAMs (New Approach Methodologies) as innovative, non-animal-based technologies used to replace, reduce, or refine animal testing. These include in vitro human-based platforms such as organ-on-a-chip and microphysiological systems (MPS), which can be used to generate human-relevant data to improve drug development and safety evaluation. This Challenge aims to identify and develop proof-of-concept and prototype sensing systems that demonstrate how quantum-enabled approaches alone or in hybrid quantum-classical and other advanced sensing and detection approaches and configurations can improve detection and measurement in in vitro NAMs for toxicity, safety and other preclinical assessments. The goal is to enable new types of data and biological signals that cannot be measured today, thereby improving the predictive capability of preclinical models to generate robust, human-relevant data for drug development and safety evaluation.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, ARPA-H’s Emerging Health Innovators (EHI) Initiative aims to increase access to government research funding and to seed new ideas that address healthcare gaps in the United States. The program is designed for early-career biotech investigators and innovators to learn how to become the next wave of ARPA-H Program Managers and research performers. By backing emerging talent, EHI ensures the next big health breakthroughs don’t get stuck on the drawing board. Proposals for this opportunity must be led by early-career principal investigators (academic, non-profit, industry etc.) within 8 years after completion of their first terminal degree.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, ARPA-H’s SPECTRA (Systems for Phenotypic Evaluation, Clinical Trajectories, Response, and Agency) program takes a bold approach, anchoring autism research in objective, multi-factor measurement and computation rather than behavioral observation alone. The program is built on the hypothesis that nonlinear interactions among genetic, environmental, family, metabolic, immune, microbiome, and developmental factors shape distinct developmental, health, communication, and functional trajectories. By integrating these data across the lifespan, SPECTRA aims to build tools that serve two connected goals: improving quality of life, independence and autonomy for people diagnosed with ASD, and improving assessment so that measurement becomes continuous, real-world, and a natural part of everyday life. Together, these tools will help match individuals to tailored interventions most likely to help and enable continuous improvement of care and outcomes overtime.