Featured Opportunities

September 10, 2025

• BASF via Halo, through its Free in vivo testing: Unleash your molecule’s potential as a crop protector opportunity, is looking for looking for novel compounds, such as organic molecules, natural products, and fragment-like molecules, which could be subjected to screening within our research facility, with the goal of developing new crop protection products. They would like to partner to bring new life and impact from your chemistry. You may submit multiple compounds, and we will screen them using our computer models. If they are selected, you will receive the biological results for each compound as a potential herbicide, fungicide and insecticide, and you are free to publish the results. Solutions of interest include: Small organic molecules; Natural products; Virtual compounds; and Single chemical compounds (in a dry form). Their must-have requirements are: 1) The minimum amount of compound we will accept is 5 mg (the standard amount is 8 mg) and 2) The material shall have purity greater than 80% as determined by current state-of-the-art analysis.
• Advances in artificial intelligence now open the door to a faster, smarter way of working. AI-powered tools could automatically propose initial formulations based on nutritional and regulatory requirements, predict taste and nutritional performance, and reduce reliance on repeated lab iterations. By accelerating the early design phase and flagging issues earlier, these technologies could enable teams to move from concept to viable product with greater speed and confidence, helping innovators unlock more ideas and bring them to market faster. A Private Company via Halo is looking for AI-enabled tools and platforms that can accelerate food formulation design from concept to viable recipe. Ideal solutions would generate or optimize initial formulations based on nutritional, regulatory, or cost constraints, and predict how formulations will perform before extensive bench testing. Solutions of interest include: AI platforms for rapid recipe iteration under nutritional and regulatory constraints; AI-driven recipe design engines for automated formulation generation; Allergen and sensitivity prediction models for safer product development; Formulation performance prediction models for taste, texture, and nutritional quality; Ingredient substitution simulators for dynamic recipe adjustment; and Machine learning models for monitoring and adjusting ingredient variability.
• The Florida International University, Wolfson Library’s Wolfsonian Fellowships engage scholars and artists around the world with resources held in the museum's trust and with the possibilities contained in dedicated study and interpretation of the modern age. Working full-time at The Wolfsonian over the course of their residency, fellows seek deeper understanding about the past (in research fellowships) or imagine novel ways to activate historic ideas and imagery (in creative fellowships). Each fellow broadens public access to Wolfsonian collection items and enriches our collective knowledge about its artifacts by sharing takeaways and discoveries in new projects. The Wolfsonian's holdings—including one of the largest university art collections in the U.S.—enhance understanding of the modern age, 1850 to 1950. Ranging from fine, decorative, and propaganda arts to graphic design, artifacts reflect the social, political, and technological changes that transformed the world during these pivotal 100 years and demonstrate the vital role that design plays in shaping perception.
• The University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center’s (AHC) Grants, Fellowships and Awards support a variety of scholar activities through the grants, fellowships, and awards we offer and encourage applications from researchers with diverse backgrounds and disciplines. The AHC is committed to fostering an inclusive research environment and promoting innovative inquiry that provides new perspectives on a wide range of historical and contemporary topics. Their collections span regional, national, and international subjects with particular strengths in the American West and topics that intersect with global cultural, environmental, and industrial developments. Explore their collections on Archives West.
• Manufacturing processes in food and consumer products involve a complex mix of ingredients, equipment, and environmental factors. Achieving desired product traits—such as texture, stability, and quality—requires precise control over steps like mixing, heating, extrusion, and drying. Scaling from lab to production often demands extensive trial runs, making development costly and time-consuming. Currently, optimization relies heavily on onsite testing, operator adjustments, and large-scale design of experiments (DOE). While effective, this trial-and-error approach consumes significant resources and limits responsiveness to ingredient variability or shifting market needs. Capturing and sharing best practices across sites is also challenging, reducing opportunities for global learning and efficiency. A Private Company via Halo is looking for AI and digital twin technologies that can simulate manufacturing processes and predict how changes in ingredients, equipment, or parameters affect final product quality. Solutions of interest include: Digital twin platforms for simulating manufacturing workflows; Machine learning models for soft sensing and real-time process adjustment; Simulation tools for what-if scenario testing in production environments; and Cross-site performance analytics platforms for process benchmarking. Their must-have requirements are: Simulates key manufacturing steps (e.g., mixing, heating, extrusion, drying); Predicts how process parameters affect final product quality; and Simulates how changes in ingredients, equipment, or environmental conditions affect product quality.
• The National Science Foundation Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) will jointly sponsor research collaborations though the Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence program consisting of mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers, and social and behavioral scientists focused on the mathematical and theoretical foundations of AI. Research activities should focus on the most challenging mathematical and theoretical questions aimed at understanding the capabilities, limitations, and emerging properties of AI methods as well as the development of novel, and mathematically grounded, design and analysis principles for the current and next generation of AI approaches. Specific research goals include: establishing a fundamental mathematical understanding of the factors determining the capabilities and limitations of current and emerging generations of AI systems, including, but not limited to, foundation models, generative models, deep learning, statistical learning, federated learning, and other evolving paradigms; the development of mathematically grounded design and analysis principles for the current and next generations of AI systems; rigorous approaches for characterizing and validating machine learning algorithms and their predictions; research enabling provably reliable, translational, general-purpose AI systems and algorithms; encouragement of new collaborations in this interdisciplinary research community and between institutions.
• The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIAID’s New Innovator Award (DP2) supports postdoctoral and other candidates in non-independent positions or newly independent Early Stage Investigators of exceptional creativity who propose novel, original and insightful research concepts with the potential to produce a major impact, test scientific paradigms, or advance key concepts on broad, important problems in biomedical research of priority to NIAID. Applications proposing unexpected convergence of disciplines, new scientific directions, or the use of novel methodologies are encouraged.
• The purpose of the HHS, NIH Research Conference Grant (R13) is to support high quality scientific conferences that are relevant to the NIH's mission and to the public health. A conference is defined as a symposium, seminar, workshop, or any other organized and formal meeting, whether conducted face-to-face or via the internet, where individuals assemble (or meet virtually) for the primary purpose to exchange technical information and views or explore or clarify a defined subject, problem, or area of knowledge, whether or not a published report results from such meeting. The NIH recognizes the value to members of the research community and all other interested parties in supporting such forums.
• The Kansas State University Applied Learning Experiences Team is now accepting applications for Fall 2025 incentive Grants, which support the integration of applied learning into academic courses and programs. Faculty members, with the support of program chairs and department heads, are encouraged to apply. A total of $250,000 is available to support both curricular and transdisciplinary programs. New this year, stipend funding is available for a Teacher Workshop Series designed to help faculty modify or create courses that align with the Applied Learning Experiences framework and result in a microcredential. Each grant recipient may receive up to $20,000 in a one-time award, to be distributed in January 2026. Funds must be used to implement the proposed experience by the 2027-28 academic year. Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. Oct. 15. A panel selected by the University Steering Committee for Applied Learning, or USCALE, will review submissions. Award announcements will be made the first week of December.
• Kansas State University One K-State Funding Opportunities empower faculty and staff to bring innovative ideas to life, address institutional challenges and advance K-State’s strategic priorities — helping shape the university’s future and drive meaningful impact across our campus and community. Those opportunities that are open now and due October 1 are Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Innovation Fund.
• The purpose of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come. They aim to fund projects that: 1) Explore the future by researching and experimenting with ideas that are ahead of the curve or at the edge of our collective imagination; 2) Shine a light on the emerging trends and forces that are shaping our future for better or worse—and suggest ways to navigate them to mitigate harm and advance health equity; and 3) Dream big and challenge conventional wisdom to surface possibilities and uncover new paths to dismantle structural racism and build a more equitable future. They support visionary thinkers—scientists, anthropologists, engineers, technologists, creatives, and others—who are imagining what the world might look like in the next 10 to 100 years. With their funding, grantees explore how those futures may unfold in ways that could slow down or speed up our collective efforts to dismantle structural racism and improve health equity. By applying this future-facing lens, grantees are uncovering how emerging social, cultural, scientific, technological, environmental, and economic trends and forces could shape the future of health for everyone. They are also discovering and experimenting with cutting-edge ideas that have the potential to tear down barriers to health and wellbeing and reinvent our systems so that they work better for us all.
• The Volkswagen Stiftung Transatlantic Bridge Professorships allows Internationally renowned professors in the humanities and social sciences who are currently working in the USA and conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations get the opportunity to work at an academic institution in Germany whilst maintaining ties with their home institution. The funding enables annual periods of presence in Germany for exchange and joint research with colleagues in Germany, as well as the continuation of contributions to current academic and public debates in the USA.