Featured Opportunities

August 26, 2026

• The goal of the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative Extension Disaster Education Network (FADI-EDEN) program is to support the Cooperative Extension System’s (CES) ability to maximize the resilience of the U.S. food and agriculture sector to biosecurity risks, weather events and disasters, cyber threats, and other shocks through the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN). EDEN is a national, collaborative network of CES professionals who are dedicated to improved all-hazards management of domestic disasters. EDEN supports all-hazards capacity-building efforts for peer CES professionals so that they are prepared for and skilled in directly providing education and technical assistance to farmers, youth and families, small businesses, and communities. The FADI-EDEN program provides coordination support and administrative leadership to EDEN so that it can achieve its mission.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, ARPA-H’s Systems for Tracking Resilience in Efficient Agricultural-input Management (STREAM) seeks solutions to issues that result from herbicide use. Some herbicides may have the potential for adverse effects in humans, animals, fish, and pollinators. Farmers, farm workers, and American consumers are often exposed to these herbicides and their formulation ingredients through food, water, soil, and air. Meanwhile, weeds are becoming resistant and pollinators, adjacent habitats, and rural communities can suffer from off-target runoff. Alternatives have long been sought, but no prior effort has resolved the fundamental balance between efficacy, health, safety, ecological impact, soil dynamics, and cost. STREAM encourages experts from agricultural and weed sciences, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced chemistry, drone development, and other related fields to collaborate in teams that can address these complex issues. The program will pursue four coordinated technical areas: 1) Develop next-generation herbicides and formulations by using artificial intelligence and machine learning; 2) Advance precision and nonchemical weed-control technologies; 3) Improve monitoring of herbicides and associated chemicals by developing accurate, low-cost, continuous sensing technologies for compounds that are difficult and expensive to measure; and 4) Remove or degrade herbicides and associated chemicals by developing methods to rapidly break down agricultural chemicals in soil and water.
• The purpose of the Department of Agriculture, NIFA’s Agriculture Risk Management Education Partnerships Competitive Grants Program (ARME) is to educate agricultural producers about the full range of risk management activities. These activities include futures, options, agricultural trade options, crop insurance, cash forward contracting, debt reduction, production diversification, marketing plans and tactics, farm resources risk reduction, and other appropriate risk management strategies. The program authority specifies that special emphasis shall be placed on farm viability and risk management strategies (including farm financial benchmarking, business planning and technical assistance, market assessment, transfer and succession planning, and crop insurance participation), education, and outreach specifically focused at farmers and ranchers.
• The Stanford Humanities Center welcomes applications from external faculty for its Fellowship Awards. They sponsor research in the traditional and emergent disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. (Creative arts projects are not eligible.) The projects of our fellows have drawn on every imaginable approach, from conventional methods to those critical of the disciplines themselves. In partnership with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, we welcome applications in the digital humanities. Especially appropriate are projects that are likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a group of scholars.
• Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers at the American Antiquarian Society are residential fellowships for historical research by artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history, literature, and culture. The fellowships will provide the recipients with the opportunity for a period of uninterrupted research, reading, and collegial discussion at the Society, located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Fellows are selected on the basis the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society’s collections. See how to search for library materials for initial guidance on understanding the collection. Topical research guides serve as starting points for exploring AAS collections. Successful applicants are those whose work is for the general public rather than for academic or educational audiences.
• The National Science Foundation’s EDU Core Research (ECR:ECR) program invites proposals for fundamental research (curiosity-driven basic research and use-inspired basic research) that contributes to the general, explanatory knowledge that underlies STEM education in one or more of the three broadly conceived Research Areas: Research on STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development. Within this framework, the ECR program supports a wide range of fundamental STEM education research activities, aimed at learners of all groups and ages in formal and informal settings.
• Global research and development at Sony enable this company to foster innovative ideas, which could ultimately lead to future technology advancements and company growth. In order to speed up and expand the creation of new ideas, they would like to partner with universities and research institutes. This partnership will help cultivate advanced concepts and fertilize our own research and development. The Sony Faculty Innovation Award provides up to $100K USD* in funds to conduct pioneering research in the areas listed here. Please select the single most relevant keyword to your submission. In an effort to further connect with users and creators alike, for many of the keywords listed below, creator tools or creator technologies are often one of the envisioned use-cases.
• The National Science Foundation’s MPS Mathematical Sciences Research Programs (MPS MathSci) program supports multiple research programs at the frontiers of discovery in theoretical and applied mathematical sciences. NSF's priority under this funding opportunity is to advance foundational research, spanning both incremental advances that build systematically on prior scholarship and bold, high-risk inquiries capable of reshaping entire fields. NSF places particular emphasis on projects that challenge prevailing paradigms, ask important questions, develop new theories or methods, create research tools or datasets that enable further research, or open new lines of inquiry. Proposals need not promise a near-term product, deployment, or commercial outcome, nor must they address later-stage development in a named technology priority to be competitive. NSF further recognizes that the most consequential discoveries increasingly emerge at the boundary between disciplines, and it therefore strongly encourages proposals that forge novel connections across scientific domains. Subject areas are the twelve subject areas previously funded under separate programs. These are listed on the NSF web page for this program.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, National Library of Medicine (NLM), through the Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01) NOFO, seeks applications for research projects that drive groundbreaking innovation and advanced development in the fields of bioinformatics, translational bioinformatics, and computational biology. The primary goal of this initiative is to support the creation and implementation of cutting-edge methods, tools, and approaches that can transform the landscape of biomedical data science. This NOFO aims to address the growing need to leverage transformative technologies — such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and large-scale computational platforms — to extract actionable knowledge from vast, diverse, and complex biological datasets. By enabling more effective interpretation and integration of multi-dimensional biological and biomedical data, this research will ultimately contribute to improving individual and population health outcomes.
• The Gates Foundation’s Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows grant challenge seeks to accelerate the development of low-cost, streamlined, and operationally simple targeted pathogen sequencing workflows designed for routine public health use in Low- and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). They invite researchers and innovators to propose bold, scalable solutions that lower sequencing costs, simplify protocols, and democratize access to genomics. The Foundation is seeking ideas that substantially lower the cost and complexity of pathogen sequencing for at least one priority pathogen or use case in Table 1. The primary objective is to drive the total sample-to-sequence cost to approximately US$1–10 per sample, while remaining fit for public-health use. Rather than developing new sequencing hardware, this call prioritizes sequencing methodology and workflow that enables existing sequencing platforms (including, but not limited to, Illumina, Oxford Nanopore Technology, MGI/BGI, and other sequencers) to be used more affordably, reliably, and at scale. Proposed solutions should be adaptable across pathogens and platforms and explicitly designed for routine deployment in LMIC public-health laboratories (see Table 2).
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NCI’s Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Cancer (RO1) NOFO invites research grant applications (R01) for the development and application of current and emerging molecular imaging methods to gain fundamental insights into cancer inflammation in vivo. The motivation for this initiative is the recognition that much of the current imaging research on inflammation in cancer relies heavily on in vitro and ex vivo methods. These approaches have limited potential to provide significant insights into the dynamic interactions between cancer and inflammation. Utilizing molecular imaging probes in pre-clinical and clinical investigations allows for precise temporal resolution at molecular and cellular levels. This information is valuable for identifying and characterizing in vivo inflammatory cellular physiology in cancer and for detecting molecular changes in response to treatment. This NOFO encourages applications focused on developing integrated imaging approaches to investigate the role of inflammation in cancer through strong cross-discipline collaboration between cancer basic science researchers and imaging scientists. These collaborations are expected to advance the science and understanding of cancer inflammation interactions.
• The goal of the Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Developing Novel Theory and Methods for Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits (R01) NOFO is to support applications for novel theory and methods development that enable better understanding of how genetic and non-genetic factors contribute to complex trait variation across individuals, families, and populations. Approaches should be interdisciplinary drawing from the natural and social sciences, account for interdependencies across scales of biological, social, and ecological organization, and make extensive use of theory, modeling, and validation with available large-scale datasets.
• The University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute for International Studies’ world-renowned Faculty Visiting Fellowships are awarded through a highly selective competition, offering junior and senior scholars time to pursue scholarly inquiry wherever it leads, advance personal research, and collaborate with leading scholars and practitioners from across the US and around the globe. Faculty visiting fellows pursue research related to Kellogg Institute theme of global democracy and share their research with the Notre Dame scholarly community.
• The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship Research Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and other fellows. The Center accepts policy-relevant, nonpartisan fellowship proposals that address key foreign policy challenges confronting the United States and the world. Fellows will work remotely during their tenure with the Wilson Center. The program will include a trip to Washington D.C. at the start and end of the fellowship, to be paid for by the Wilson Center. The focus of each fellow’s tenure will be their research project. The project must be a policy-relevant, nonpartisan project that addresses key challenges confronting the United States and the world. The project must align with at least one of the four priority areas for the Wilson Center. Refer to the Applicant Eligibility section page for additional information regarding the fellowship projects.