Featured Opportunities

May 14, 2025

• The Department of State, Fulbright US Scholars program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. This week’s Funding Connection contains 13 overseas opportunity announcements for this program including such countries as Taiwan, United Kingdom (Virgin Islands), Philippines, Poland, Panama, Peru, Tajikistan, and many others. Most of the announcements are looking for faculty in any discipline. All of the opportunities are listed under the “International/Multicultural” category of the Funding Connection and each appears under the discipline category or categories that is sought by the opportunity.
• The Dairy Health, Efficiency, and Resource Dynamics (HERD) Initiative is a partnership between the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR), Dairy Management Inc. (DMI) and Zoetis to advance research that will enable U.S. Dairy and allied industry to better understand and use innovations to support improved animal health/management and welfare, economic viability and environmental outcomes. Recent reports suggest that improving the health of dairy cows in the U.S. could substantially improve the environmental outcomes associated with dairy production. Yet very little research has attempted to quantify the environmental impacts of improved animal health in dairy or to understand the tradeoffs and intersections with other aspects of livestock production, including the role of caretakers and economic aspects of herd management. The Dairy HERD Initiative aims to support research to advance our understanding of the interrelationships among dairy health/management and welfare, economics and the environment.
• Through Strategic Grantmaking, Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) invests in a broad range of highly effective research projects. We invite researchers to explore the competitive grant opportunities made possible by our generous donors. Horticultural Research Institute only funds research that specifically deals with green industry-related issues. HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. HRI research focuses on the propagation, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of plant material. HRI research strategically focuses on: 1) Quantifying Plant Benefits; 2) Gathering Consumer Insights; 3) Creating Innovative Solutions and 4) Producing Practical & Actionable Solutions. HRI seeks to support research that: 1) has defined outcomes; 2) creates applicable advice for businesses; and 3) represents a return on investment for the green industry.
• The Library of Congress’ Kluge Center, through its Fellowships, 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 program. 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. 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. The Center furnishes attractive work and discussion space for Fellowship holders, Kluge Chairs, other distinguished visiting scholars, and post-doctoral and doctoral fellows supported by other grants and foundation gifts.
• The National Library Board’s National Library Digital Fellowship is a program to support research in the emerging field of digital humanities using the collections of theNational Library, Singapore (NLS) and the National Archives of Singapore (NAS). They are keen to collaborate with scholars and researchers on projects that apply digital technologies and computational methods to yield fresh insights into the history, arts and culture of Singapore and Southeast Asia. The Digital Fellowship is open to both local and foreign applicants. Applicants may be individuals or collectives (two persons making a joint application). Only one application is accepted per individual/collective. The Library welcomes applications from librarians, curators, historians, academics or independent researchers with established records of achievement in their chosen fields of research. Applicants should have the requisite digital skills to carry out and complete the project. They welcome applicants to propose projects that make effective and meaningful use of digital tools and methods to demonstrate the possibilities of learning and researching with our collections. This could involve text, visual and/or audio analysis, data visualization, mapping, digital storytelling and so on. Applicants are encouraged to propose ways of using both our digital collections and physical collections. Projects could explore and map the connections between collection items and content to reveal new insights on a topic, for example, an event, time period, individual(s) and/or social group(s), in Singapore history. Projects could also enrich information about collection items, e.g. crowdsourced annotation, image processing, and/or enable the community to discover and interact with collection items in new ways.
• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Executive Summary Space Technology Research Grants (STRG) Program’s Early Career Faculty (ECF) solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities for innovative, early-stage space technology research of high priority to NASA’s Mission Directorates. Proposals are sought on specific NNH25ZTR001N-25ECF-B1 4 space technologies that are currently at low Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). The appendix seeks to tap into the talent base of highly skilled engineers, scientists, and technologists at U.S. universities, challenging early-career faculty to examine the theoretical feasibility of new ideas and approaches that are critical to making space exploration, space science, and other civil space pursuits more effective, affordable, and sustainable. The Appendix exclusively seeks proposals that are responsive to one of the two topics: 1) Topic 1 – Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry 2) Topic 2 – Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft Using Machine Learning Methods to Enable Onboard Guidance, Navigation, and Control.
• The purpose of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s Investigator Initiated Innovation in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R21) is to support investigator-initiated research efforts fostering innovation in computational genomics, data science, statistics, bioinformatics, and data visualization and exploration. This NOFO supports development of innovative analytical methodologies and approaches and early-stage tools and software for genomics, rather than incremental advances or modification and application of existing approaches. Projects should be enabling for genomics research, broadly applicable to human health and disease, and generalizable across diseases and biological systems.
• The HHS, NIH’s Research Project Grant (R01) supports a discrete, specified, circumscribed project in areas representing the specific interests and competencies of the investigator(s). This Parent Notice of Funding Opportunity requires that at least 1 clinical trial be proposed. The proposed project must be related to the programmatic interests of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on their scientific missions. Applicants should note that some ICs only accept applications proposing mechanistic studies that meet NIH's definition of a clinical trial through this funding opportunity announcement.
• The HHS, NIH’s Small Research Grant (R03) supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.
• Infrastructure systems comprise complex connections between physical components, organizational structures and operational methods that support the needs of people and communities at the local, regional, national, and global scales. Such systems form the backbone of society, providing essential services as well as ensuring public health and welfare, economic prosperity and national security, and are expected to function under all operational conditions. While functioning at extremes is of interest, the National Science Foundation’s Infrastructure Systems and People (ISP) program also supports infrastructure systems research under the full range of operating conditions, across a variety of hazards, and in urban, suburban, and rural communities. The program particularly encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exploration that will open new research frontiers and significantly expand and transform relevant research communities. The program welcomes research that addresses novel system integration, user-inspired system and service design, data analytics, and socio-technical studies focused on engineering and system innovation during normal and extreme conditions. The program also values innovative research efforts focused on collecting, standardizing, and sharing large-scale databases of real-world infrastructure systems and people-infrastructure interactions during normal and extreme operating conditions, which can be instrumental in providing benchmarks for model verification and validation and for advancing future research innovation in ISP.
• Through its Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control (R21), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) encourages the submission of exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) applications that focus on different aspects of cancer control by modifying behavior, screening, and understanding etiologic factors contributing to the development of cancer, and developing ways to control cancer. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote the early and conceptual stages of research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance population-based cancer research, such as the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of cancer research (e.g. epidemiologic, biomedical, behavioral, health care delivery or clinical).
• The aim of NSF’s Perception, Action and Cognition (PAC) program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational modeling if the goal is to expand explanatory theories of human perception, action, or cognition). PAC strongly encourages proposals that examine human behavior in realistic (or real-world) scenarios and that include varied subject population. It is expected that knowledge gained from PAC-supported projects will have a clear and direct path towards benefiting society. PAC is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs both within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and across other directorates.
• NSF’s Social Psychology program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought, motivation, emotion, neural, and physiological processes explain ways of thinking about and relating to self and others. Proposed research should carry strong potential for groundbreaking discoveries about the power of social dynamics to shape peoples’ attitudes, behavior, and experience. Basic research that connects to emerging and ongoing global challenges is especially encouraged. Proposals that develop new theories or methods are highly encouraged. Proposals involving non-human animals are considered only if the research offers clear and direct contributions to understanding human social behavior.