Featured Opportunities

July 30, 2025

• AgriProspects, a national program of the Extension Foundation, is a five year grant program sponsored by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) which aims to elevate the profile of Extension’s non-traditional, non-credit adult agricultural workforce development (AAWD) skill attainment opportunities and enhance internal and external AAWD practices, partnerships, and networks across Extension. The second round of the AgriProspects mini-grant program is aimed at bolstering Cooperative Extension’s work in this area by supporting regional and national grant projects that meaningfully boost Extension’s ability to engage in new technologies, in particular digital credentialing and artificial intelligence, in support of the nation’s producers, agriculture-related workforce, and communities. All Land-grant Colleges & Universities are encouraged to apply for this opportunity regardless of membership status in the Extension Foundation.
• The National Pork Board’s Swine Disease Research Task Force (SDRTF) works to identify critical knowledge gaps and fund research proposals that address them. Its current Request for Proposals (RFP) focuses on porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSv), with priorities developed by producers, veterinarians, and subject matter experts from both the SDRTF and the PRRSv Advisory Group. The primary objective is to advance understanding and fill research gaps specifically related to PRRSv. Their current funding opportunity---Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus--focuses on knowledge gaps related to immunology and virus characteristics, diagnostics, prevention, response, biosecurity/bioexclusion and biocontainment for PRRSv. Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025.
• The Fulbright Canada’s Fulbright Specialist Award is designed to provide U.S. and Canadian faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities. Short-term grants of two to six weeks are available to provide leading U.S. scholars and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with their Canadian counterparts. During the course of their grant, Fulbright Specialists may engage in any of the following activities at their Canadian host institution: 1) Conduct needs assessments, surveys, institutional or programmatic research; 2) Take part in specialized academic programs and conferences; 3) Consult with administrators and instructors of post-secondary institutions on faculty development; 4) Present lectures at graduate and undergraduate levels; 5) Participate in or lead seminars or workshops at overseas academic institutions; 6) Develop and/or assess academic curricula or educational materials; and 7) Conduct teacher-training programs at the tertiary level.
• The Princeton, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton Arts Fellowships, funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, David E. Kelley Society of Fellows in the Arts, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Scholarship Fund, will be awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching. Applicants should be early career visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists—this list is not meant to be exhaustive—who would find it beneficial to spend two years teaching and working in an artistically vibrant university community.
• The Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Radcliffe Fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. Radcliffe supports engaged scholarship, where fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present. We welcome applications from scholars and artists proposing innovative work that confronts pressing social and policy issues and seeking to engage audiences beyond academia.
• The Archaeological Institute of America’s Samuel H. Kress Grant for Research and Publication in Classical Art and Architecture funds publication preparation, or research leading to publication, undertaken by professional members of the AIA. Its purpose is to assist scholars in preparing, completing and publishing results of their research in Graeco-Roman Art and Architecture, and the broader Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity. Awards may be used for research leading to the publication of an art historical monograph or for costs associated with publication, such as image licensing. Grants are open to scholars of all nations. To be eligible, applicants must be AIA members (Professional level) in good standing at the time of application. In the case of multi-authored or multi-edited publications, the AIA membership requirement applies only to the primary author/principal investigator. Applicants still in the research stage must have a publication contract in place with either a non-profit or commercial publisher. Research may be undertaken at domestic or international universities, libraries or study centers, or through excavation or preservation projects of Classical sites.
• The Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)—Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research-- to solicit applications for research that drives 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. Applications that promote interdisciplinary collaboration and focus on scalable, autonomous innovations will be encouraged. Projects may span a wide range of topics, including but not limited to omics-based bioinformatics at the molecular level, as well as computational biology studies at the cellular, tissue, organismal, and population levels. Emphasis will be placed on research that exemplifies scientific rigor, technological innovation, and the potential for significant impact across biomedical and clinical domains. Applications are not being solicited at this time. Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. This NOFO will utilize the R01 activity code. Investigators with expertise and insights into advancing the bioinformatics and computational biology fields are encouraged to begin to consider applying for this new NOFO.
• The purpose of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)/HHS, NIH’s Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) interagency program solicitation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze and interpret data from individuals, devices and systems to enable discovery and optimize health. Solutions to these complex biomedical or public health problems demand the formation of interdisciplinary teams that are ready to address these issues, while advancing fundamental science and engineering.
• The Department of Defense, DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, through its Rad to Watts program, is seeking innovative proposals for directly converting radiation energy into electricity, focusing on radiation voltaics (also known as radiovoltaics). This program seeks approaches that can scale unit cells to broad-area collection volumes to produce power at kilowatt-levels over relevant time scales. Proposed work should include innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in high fluence resilient, radiation-hardened, charge-carrying materials and techniques that specifically apply to radiovoltaics. If successful, the Rads to Watts program will produce proof-of-concept radiovoltaic unit cells that could be scalable to high-power form factors (ie radiovoltaic array, stack of unit cells, etc). The program is designed so that different performers can explore a range of unique, mission-relevant solutions, so that the program as a whole will identify the most promising application areas for further development. By allowing performers to choose different combinations of power density and lifetime for a unit cell, DARPA intends to characterize the performance limits of radiovoltaics derived with different materials, mechanisms, and architectures through this program.
• Through its Computer and Information Science and Engineering: Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) program, the NSF, CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering through the following Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) programs: Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program; Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program; Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; Computing Education Research (CER) program; Cyber-Physical System Foundations and Connected Communities (CPS) program; Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; Human-Centered Computing (HCC) program; Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program; Robust Intelligence (RI) program; and Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program. The CISE Future Computing Research program anticipates a portfolio of awards with a range of budgets and durations, including projects of smaller scope. Project durations and budgets must be commensurate with the scope of the proposed work up to the maximum limit of $1,000,000 with a duration up to 4 years. Typical projects are approximately $150,000 to $250,000 per year and are 3 to 4 years in duration. Projects are discouraged from exceeding $300,000 in any single year. Estimated program budget, number of awards, and average award size/duration are subject to the availability of funds.
• NSF’s Science of Science Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SoS:BIO) is a joint program between the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact Program (SoS:DCI) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). SoS:BIO supports research that advances the scientific basis of science and innovation policy, with a focus on the biomedical sciences. Consistent with the SoS:DCI program, SoS:BIO will fund the development of models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can inform science policy and the development of the scientific enterprise. SoS:BIO welcomes individual and collaborative research projects and places a high priority on interdisciplinary research and on broadening participation.
• The NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core program supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, ecosystems, macrosystems, and biogeographic extents. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time. Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science). DEB also encourages interdisciplinary proposals that cross conceptual boundaries and integrate over levels of biological organization or across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Research addressing ecology and ecosystem science in the marine biome should be directed to the Biological Oceanography Program in the Division of Ocean Sciences; research addressing evolution and systematics in the marine biome should be directed to the Evolutionary Processes or Systematics and Biodiversity Science programs in DEB.
• The goal of the HHS, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Basic Biomedical Sciences Research Training Program (T32) is to develop a pool of well-trained scientists available to address the nation’s biomedical research agenda. Specifically, this funding announcement provides support to eligible, domestic organizations to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the biomedical research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation.
• The Library of Congress, Kluge Center encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields such as architecture or law. Among the collections available to researchers are the world's largest law library and outstanding multi-lingual collections of books and periodicals. Deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints, and photographs are also available. In-residence scholars have access to the Library's specialized staff and to the intellectual community of Washington. Further information about the Library's collections can be found on the Library's website: https://www.loc.gov/rr/. Established in 2000 through an endowment of $60 million from John W. Kluge, the Kluge Center is located in the splendid Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.