Limited Submission Opportunities

This call for nominations will prioritize translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease - and the pathway to this impact is clear.

Managing Unit: SoM

he NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development. These challenges are identified by K-12 students, families, and educators. The program aims to create and scale evidence-based practices, tools, and technologies that improve learning outcomes and prepare students for a digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven future.

A key focus is early exposure to AI to build curiosity, understanding, and readiness for future careers. The program encourages partnerships across sectors - schools, universities, industry, government, and nonprofits - to co-design responsive, technology-based solutions.

NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program includes two phases: Planning and Development. Planning proposals help teams explore one of several focus areas. Only teams awarded Planning grants may submit Development proposals, which support the growth and implementation of promising ideas.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

Catalyst Awards provide an opportunity to conduct preliminary work on high-risk, high-reward research addressing a wide variety of clinical disease areas. The target of the Falk Catalyst Award’s funding are projects at the intersection of technology and clinical science, intended to move from basic science insights towards solutions, techniques, and tools that can be transferred to clinical practice in the near term. The Catalyst Research Award Program provides one to two years of seed funding to enable planning and development of projects,teams, tools,techniques, and management infrastructure necessary to successfully compete for two- to three-year awards through the Transformational Research Award Program. The work proposed in the Catalyst submission will serve to demonstrate the scientific promise, infrastructure, methods, and preliminary data in support of further transformational research.

Managing Unit: SoM

The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early‑career researchers through five‑year research and mentoring plans designed to expand their expertise into new disciplines, methods, or content areas. It encourages scholars to take meaningful risks by providing structured mentoring and a supportive academic community.

Applicants should have a strong record of high‑quality research and a clear interest in shifting their research trajectory. Proposed projects must address either reducing inequality in youth outcomes or improving the use of research evidence in policy and practice.

Awards are based on applicants’ potential to become influential researchers, demonstrated through creative, rigorous scholarship and a strong first‑authored publication record, and on the clarity of their plans to significantly broaden their expertise through well‑defined research and mentoring activities.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The purpose of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00) program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NCI-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed for postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require an extended period of mentored research training beyond their doctoral degrees. The objective of this award is to facilitate a timely transition of these fellows from their mentored, postdoctoral research positions to independent tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty positions. The program will provide independent NCI research support during this transition to help awardees to launch competitive, independent research careers. Each eligible institution may submit up to a combined total of four applications (one in Cancer Data Science, one in Cancer Control Science, one in Molecular/Precision Cancer Prevention, and one in Other Cancer Research).

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

TechAccess: AI-Ready America is a national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works — so local and state priorities can lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans.

Unlike initiatives centered around K – 16 education, AI-Ready America additionally reaches businesses, public-serving organizations, and individuals, among others, expanding access to AI knowledge, tools, and resources. The program also emphasizes practical implementation through hands-on assistance and workforce up-skilling, including experiential learning such as internships, project-based work, and apprenticeships, to ensure stakeholders can effectively apply and innovate with AI.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Equipment Grants Program (EGP) increases access to shared special‑purpose equipment for scientific research in the food and agricultural sciences.

EGP supports the purchase of equipment for fundamental or applied research and either enhances existing capacity (through updates or expansions) or adds new capacity (through acquisition of new equipment) at research institutions.

The program aims to improve the quality and broaden the scope of research in food and agricultural sciences, including data science and data systems, by enabling institutions to acquire instrumentation that strengthens research capacity and advances their scientific contributions.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

This grant is tailored for tenure-track faculty members in their first to fourth year at United States institutions, holding M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees. It aims to support these early-career scientists in establishing their research projects to a point where they can secure NIH R01 or other independent funding. Faculty must be engaged in basic and translational research that has the potential to make fundamental advances in biomedical science.

Managing Unit: SoM

The Department will fund grantees that use evidence-based strategies to prepare scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services at the bachelor's degree, certification, master's degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree levels to serve in a variety of settings, including natural environments (the home and community settings in which children with and without disabilities participate), early learning programs, child care, classrooms, and schools.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The NEA is committed to supporting excellent arts projects for the benefit of all Americans. Activities funded through Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) 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. We strongly encourage applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities.
We 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, Our Town, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Challenge is a skill-based competition that awards projects focused on providing sustainable access to safe water or sanitation in two categories: 1) Clean Water or Sanitation: Projects must advance sustainable access to safe water where it is at risk and/or improve access to sanitation; and 2) Ocean: Projects must support ocean health, marine ecosystems, or ocean-based solutions that contribute to environmental sustainability and resilience.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs initiative is a specialized funding mechanism designed to accelerate the development of novel platform technologies and use-inspired scientific breakthroughs. This program targets high-impact R&D that typically falls outside the scope of traditional academic grants or industry laboratory structures.

The fundamental purpose of NSF X-Labs is to establish and support research teams focused on the following pillars:
- Platform Technology Development: Creating foundational technologies capable of unlocking entirely new scientific fields and economic sectors.
- Use-Inspired Breakthroughs: Addressing large-scale scientific challenges that require intensive, interdisciplinary coordination across academia, industry, national laboratories, and the nonprofit sector.
- Non-Traditional R&D Structures: Implementing a model characterized by operational autonomy and milestone-based funding, distinct from standard institutional frameworks.

The Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging topic targets the development of revolutionary platform technologies in sensing, imaging, and supporting hardware. The program aims to redefine the limits of scientific observation by moving beyond incremental improvements toward entirely new modalities for discovery.

Managing Unit: VPDoR