Featured Opportunities

October 28, 2026

• The Human Nutrition Advisory Committee of the National Pork Board (NPB), through its Research RFP—Human Nutrition 2027, is soliciting letters of intent for research that advances understanding of the role of pork and pork-related nutrients in human health. The RFP uses an initial Letter of Intent (LOI) for screening; selected investigators will be invited to submit a full proposal. NPB needs a stronger foundation of high-quality, pork-specific evidence that distinguishes fresh pork from broad or processed-meat categories and clarifies its nutritional composition, bioavailability, role in diverse dietary patterns, and relationship to health outcomes across the lifespan. The RFP also seeks methods and evidence that can translate into credible scientific communications and claims. Proposals should produce fundamental knowledge with practical relevance to human health, the pork industry, and the following strategic research priorities: 1. Pork Nutrient Profile and Health Outcomes; 2. Cultural and Community Nutrition Research; 3. Bioavailability and Food Synergy Studies; and 4. Epidemiological Methods Advancement.
• The University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library’s Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections are awarded to promote research based on archival, manuscript and printed books collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Researchers external to the University of Oxford are invited to pursue their own research projects requiring use of these special collections held in the Weston Library in Oxford. Visiting Fellows may be invited during their visits to present their work in progress formally or informally within the University or in the Bodleian Libraries and should consider publication of their findings in the Bodleian Library Record.
• The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is committed to supporting excellent arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Activities funded through their Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) program enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. We also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities. NEA strongly encourages applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities. They welcome applications from first-time and returning applicants; from organizations serving rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities of all sizes; and from organizations with small, medium, or large operating budgets. They fund arts projects in the following disciplines: Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts. This is a limited submission program. If you are interested in applying you must notify (working title, team list, short synopsis) the Office of Research Development by 5 pm on November 4, 2026 via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu
• The New York Public Library Schomburg Center’s Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to support scholars and writers working on projects that would benefit from access to the Center's extensive resources for the study of African diasporic history, politics, literature, and culture. The Schomburg Center is a world-renowned repository of sources on every facet of the African diasporic experience, with extensive holdings including numerous unique manuscript and archival collections as well as a comprehensive range of publications, photographs, films, audio recordings, and visual art.
• The Institute for Citizens and Scholars’ Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders are early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society and who are building campus communities through their teaching, scholarship, and service. This award is funded by The Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award offers a $20,000 stipend—$12,000 to early-career faculty, to be used for summer research support and $8,000 for research assistance during the academic year.
• The Department of Energy, ARPA-E’s Unlocking New Levels of Output and Capacity for Key Subsurface Resources (UNLOCK) program seeks to deliver a step-change improvement in energy and critical resource extraction from the subsurface. This program will address persistent geological and technical obstacles that impede efficient recovery from diverse subsurface resources including oil, natural gas, geothermal, and mineral systems. UNLOCK will target key opportunities including improving extraction efficiency from low permeability formations, maximizing resource recovery, and optimizing water management, while maintaining cost efficiency. The UNLOCK program aims to address extraction efficiency challenges by supporting efforts to develop and field-validate integrated stimulation and enhanced recovery approaches that can deliver transformative (not incremental) performance improvement in subsurface resource recovery. The program’s goal is to double the per-well recovery efficiency of energy and critical resources from low-permeability formations, while maintaining or reducing both per-unit cost and wastewater volume relative to state-of-the-art methods. Achieving this goal requires innovative approaches to stimulation and enhanced recovery processes supported by rigorous laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, and downhole monitoring. After successful laboratory proof of concept, technologies will undergo field validation to ensure a practical path to real-world deployment. Success will not only revolutionize subsurface resource recovery but also contribute to ARPA-E’s goals of reducing foreign energy imports and enhancing the nation’s energy infrastructure resilience.
• The Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of War (DoW) needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise for national security. The YFA program provides high-impact funding to researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research that enables transformative DoW capabilities. Ultimately, the YFA program develops the next generation of researchers focused on national security issues. Before preparing an executive summary or full proposal submission, proposers are encouraged to review the DARPA mission statement and current program descriptions at the DARPA website (https://www.darpa.mil) to familiarize themselves with examples of current DARPA investments. This is not meant as instruction to duplicate those efforts, but rather to illustrate that current programs are aimed at research that will substantially advance our capabilities in these areas. Once awards are made, each YFA program performer will be assigned a DARPA Program Manager (PM) with interests closely related to their research topic. The PM will act as project manager and mentor to the YFA award recipient.
• The Simons Foundation’s Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes is a one-time call to support established institutes or centers to specifically address AI challenges. This program will provide funding for the general area of Math+AI, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results applying the standards used by the math community, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use. It will not provide primary support for the operation or establishment of an institute. This program will also not support initiatives, consortiums or organizations that do not have a physical space. This program was created in partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI, which may each grant additional funding separate from the foundation.
• The Department of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has a 15-year history of supporting transformative technologies across a full spectrum of energy applications. Yet technologies that achieve substantial advancement may still face elevated risk of being stranded before they reach the market. ARPA-E’s early commercialization program, Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) addresses this scaling gap. Since 2019, SCALEUP projects have opened factories, raised hundreds of millions in follow-on funding, and secured deals with industry-leading companies. Each SCALEUP project started as an ARPA-E-funded technology with incredible promise. Let’s imagine what we can build together next.
• The Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Energy, Climate, and Technology Policy Fellowship is for predoctoral candidates, recent recipients of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree, visiting scholars, and researchers at the junior faculty level. Fellows contribute to their ongoing research projects on energy policy, climate policy, climate finance, and energy technology innovation. Current topics of interest include policy options to scale emerging clean energy technologies; pathways and policies for deep decarbonization; the governance of solar geoengineering; the role of artificial intelligence in next generation energy systems; and climate resilience in Asia. The Research Areas/fellowships for 2027-2028 are: Energy Innovation and Decarbonization Policy for the United States and China, Governance of Solar Geoengineering, Global Capital to Climate Finance Fellowship, AI and Data Center Fellowship, and Climate Resilience Fellow: Assessing Super El Niño Impacts in the Asia-Pacific.
• The Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Managing the Atom (MTA) Fellowship offers fellowships for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars, and mid-career professionals for ten months, in the stimulating environment of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. Those fellows working on topics related to nuclear weapons often receive fellowships that are shared between MTA and the International Security Program. The MTA fellows program exposes participants to an interdisciplinary work environment—blending policy and technical concerns—and provides time and space to interact with an international cohort of colleagues, as well as with faculty, senior fellows, and visiting policy makers and other experts. MTA fellows are expected to pursue research with a nuclear policy focus. Managing the Atom is shifting to a more focused fellowship program. For the coming year, we are especially interested in scholars working on various aspects of rethinking nuclear deterrence and reducing its dangers, and in scholars exploring how best to resolve regional nuclear proliferation crises.