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External Funding Opportunities

External Funding Opportunities


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Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF)
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For: Faculty, Foundation Grants, Climate Science

Pre-proposal. This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

Lalor Foundation
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For: Faculty, Broadening Participation

[Concept Paper]. Through its Anna Lalor Burdick Program, the Lalor Foundation funds initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination to help broaden and enhance their options in life.

National Institutes of Health
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For: Faculty

The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $750,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000.

National Institutes of Health
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For: Faculty

Limited Submission: Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, basic cell sorters, confocal microscopes, ultramicrotomes, gel imagers, or computer systems.

National Institutes of Health
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For: Faculty

The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system.

Department of the Navy
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For: Faculty

White paper due. The MURI program supports basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. Click the title for topic areas of interest.

American Physical Society
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For: Career Researchers, Faculty, Climate Science

[Pre-proposal]. The APS Innovation Fund offers pilot or supplemental funding to support members in launching innovative projects that address challenges in the physics community while advancing the APS mission of fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community committed to science and societal impact.

Department of Energy
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For: Graduate Students

DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle.

Department of Energy
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For: Graduate Students

The Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program creates a pathway for you to advance your PhD thesis research while working at a Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory.

DARPA
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For: Faculty

Abstracts due. The COMPASS ARC Opportunity seeks proposals that leverage new mathematical frameworks to develop novel problem formulations for Defense applications. Of particular interest are problem formulations that exploit recent mathematical advancements in complex systems and modern probability.