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| Amount | Limited | Due (m/d/y) | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | ARPA-H (rolling submission) | ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges. | |
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Defense (DOD-DARPA) | Biological Technologies (rolling submission) | Revolutionary research ideas for biological technology topics not being addressed by other solicitations. | |
| 150,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 1 year | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (rolling submission) | Deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems. |
| 5,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 3 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER) (rolling submission) | Innovate storage technologies from early-stage R&D to widespread commercialization at a host site with identified resiliency needs at the required scale, performance, and technology maturity level. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Sustainability (rolling submission) | Promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx) (rolling submission) | International multilateral research partnerships that are required to hasten progress in addressing grand challenges by leveraging research excellence in the U.S. & around the globe. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Research Coordination Network for a University-Community Climate Action Network (RCN-UCCAN) (rolling submission) | Researchers & practitioners across their communities should communicate, collaborate and exchange information for action on climate mitigation, resilience & adaption through the RCN. |
| 100,000 | No | 11/01/2024 | 1 year | State of Wisconsin Department of Administration | Wisconsin Coastal Management Program | Coastal wetland protection and habitat restoration, nonpoint source pollution control, coastal resource and community planning, Great Lakes education, public access and historic preservation |
| 500,000 | No | 11/01/2024 | 2 years | State of Wisconsin | State of Wisconsin Groundwater Research and Monitoring Program FY26 | Identify and support scientific research that will answer key scientific questions and will advance our understanding and effective management of groundwater in Wisconsin. |
| 8,000,000 | No | 11/01/2024 | 8 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Revolutionizing Innovative, Visionary Environmental Health Research (RIVER) | Support for investigators in the Environmental Health Sciences, in intellectual and administrative freedom, to pursue research in novel directions in order to achieve greater impacts. |
| 200,000 | No | 11/04/2024 | 2 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | FY2025 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - NOAA Fisheries Citizen Science Funding Opportunity | Support citizen science projects that can help support federal fisheries stock assessments and climate-ready fisheries management. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 11/07/2024 | 5 years | Department of Energy (DOE-EERE) | Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries | Supports high- risk bioenergy technologies to support commercialization and meet the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge and Clean Fuels and Products Shot. |
| 400,000 | No | 11/07/2024 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA-USDA) | Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program | Fights food insecurity through developing community food projects that help promote the self-sufficiency of low-income communities. | |
| 400,000 | No | 11/07/2024 | 4 years | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program (CFPCGP) | Projects that bring together stakeholders from distinct parts of the food system to foster understanding of national food security trends and how to improve local food systems. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 11/08/2024 | 5 years | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA-USDA) | Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) | Address key challenges of national, regional importance in sustaining all components of food and agriculture, including organic food production systems (specialty crops: fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, nursery crops). |
| 1,500,000 | No | 11/13/2024 | 3 years | Environmental Protection Agengy (EPA-STAR) | Developing and Demonstrating Nanosensor Technology to Detect, Monitor, and Degrade Pollutants | Develop and demonstrate nanosensor technology with functionalized catalysts that have the potential to degrade selected contaminants in addition to detecting and monitoring pollutants. |
| 600,000 | No | 11/13/2024 | 3 years | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity (G08 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Provide accurate, useful, usable, and understandable health information to populations that experience health disparities and their health care providers. |
| 3,000,000 | Yes | 11/14/2024 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program (Limited Submission) | Explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. |
| 7,500,000 | Yes | 11/14/2024 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF National Resource Coordination Center on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE Center) (Limited Submission) | Promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches for generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for all undergraduates. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 11/15/2024 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award | Supports projects with the potential to innovativel address national needs/grand challenges, advance US leadership, and catalyze the convergence of engineering and science domains. |
| 675,000 | Yes | 11/15/2024 | 3 years | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Moore Inventor Fellows (Limited Submission) | Supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care. |
| 1 | No | 11/15/2024 | 2 years | UW-Madison OVCR | Research Forward | Supports collaborative, multidisciplinary, multi-investigator research projects that are high-risk, high-impact and transformative. |
| 4,000,000 | No | 11/15/2024 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) | Provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 11/18/2024 | 5 years | Department of Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | Central Africa Regional Program Bushmeat | Projects that address the unsustainable commercialization and trafficking of meat illegally harvested from wild populations of protected species for trade and consumption in Central African cities. |
| 20,000,000 | No | 11/18/2024 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) | Supports infrastructure projects at the lower and higher range of infrastructure project costs, Foundation-wide, across science and engineering research disciplines. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 11/20/2024 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) | Discovery of principles of infectious disease (re)emergence and transmission and testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 11/22/2024 | 3 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Gasification of Alternative Feedstocks | Development of innovative gasification designs/systems for converting alternative feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost production of clean hydrogen. |
| 1,470,000 | No | 11/23/2024 | 5 years | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Grants Technical Assistance for Pesticide Safety Programs: Technical Assistance in Support of the Health Care Initiative and the Farmworker Training and Education Program | Provide technical assistance for grant management and reporting requirements to grant recipients and subrecipients of the Pesticides Health Care Initiative. |
| 50,000 | No | 11/25/2024 | 1 year | Universities of Wisconsin (WiSys) | Ignite Grant Program | Supports applied research projects that promote technology transfer and economic development throughout Wisconsin. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 11/25/2024 | 2 years | Environmental Protection Agengy (EPA) | Training and Technical Assistance to Improve Water Quality and Enable Small Public Water Systems to Provide Safe Drinking Water | Maximize the potential for these funds to significantly benefit rural, small, or Tribal communities with training and technical assistance in their respective public waters systems. |
| 200,000 | No | 12/01/2024 | 2 years | Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) | EREF Research Grants | Solid waste management, circular and sustainable materials management, and mitigating environmental risk and/or harm. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 12/02/2024 | 5 years | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) Practice-based Research to Improve Food Safety | Collaborate with other recipients and partners to develop and conduct multisite research projects focused on improving retail food safety, research, and environmental health. |
| 250,000 | No | 12/04/2024 | 4 years | U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation | BSF Research Grants | U.S. and Israeli scientists who wish to collaborate on research projects that address topics in basic science (Biomedical Engineering, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Psychobiology). |
| 275,000 | No | 12/04/2024 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Biomedical Research Initiative for Next-Gen BioTechnologies - SynBio Control (BRING SynBio) | Fundamental and interdisciplinary proof of principle approaches in synthetic and engineering biology that spur the development of novel, early-stage biomedical technologies. |
| 2,000,000 | No | 12/05/2024 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Molecular Foundations for Sustainability: Sustainable Polymers Enabled by Emerging Data Analytics (MFS-SPEED) | Support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery and ultimate manufacturing of sustainable polymers using state-of-the-art data science, and to enhance development of a cross-disciplinary workforce. |
| 750,000 | Yes | 12/11/2024 | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence (Limited Submission) | Supports collaboration among scholars to explore a specific topic on the ethical, legal, or societal implications of AI through research in addition to educational/outreach activities. | |
| 1,500,000 | No | 12/16/2024 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology (MFB) | Creative, cross-disciplinary research & technology proposals to accelerate understanding of RNA function in complex biological systems & harness research to advance biotechnology. |
| 500,000 | No | 12/16/2024 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator (R2I2) | Supports community- engaged team science to co-design high-impact solutions to climate-related societal challenges that leverage recent advances in fundamental climate change and Earth system science research. |
| 1 | 12/16/2024 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Statistics | Research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. | ||
| 1,500,000 | No | 12/17/2024 | 3 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Decadal Survey Incubation Program: Science and Technology | Supports the development of Earth observing instrument sensor systems, advanced information systems, and enabling science studies to further advance PBL and STV. |
| 8,750,000 | No | 12/25/2024 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NICHD Resource Program Grants in Bioinformatics (P41 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields (physical, natural sciences; law & business; computer & data science). |
| 1,000,000 | No | 12/27/2024 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Biologic-based Drug Discovery and Development for Disorders of the Nervous System (U44 Clinical Trial Optional) | Provides support for biologic-based therapeutic discovery and development, from lead optimization through phase I clinical testing. |
| 15,000,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 5 years | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-AFRI) | Foundational and Applied Science Program | Fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. |
| 500,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 1 year | Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) | Coastal Program FY24 | To restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat on public and private lands. |
| 500,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 1 year | Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) | FY24 Candidate Species Conservation | Accomplish conservation tasks for high priority candidate species or at-risk species in the US, such that identified threats to the species may be reduced or eliminated. |
| 3,500,000 | No | 01/08/2025 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) | Projects that center engagement, broadening participation, belonging, and further the well-being of underserved/underrepresented individuals and communities. |
| 5,000 | Yes | 01/08/2025 | 1 year | Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) | Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards 2025 (Limited Submission) | To enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. |
| 350,000 | No | 01/10/2025 | 2 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (neh.gov) | Supports environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies to reduce energy consumption and costs and to strengthen institutional resiliency in the face of increased risks due to global climate change. The program helps cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations) meet the complex challenge of preserving diverse holdings of humanities collections for future generations. |
| 1 | No | 01/14/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) | Harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. | |
| 700,000 | No | 01/23/2025 | 4 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) | Promotes the development, improvement, and dissemination of responsible and ethical research practices and aims to build on organizational cultures that value and reward such practices. |
| 300,000 | No | 01/28/2025 | 3 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics for Select Fungal Pathogens (R21/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Milestone-driven, early-stage translational research, drug discovery, and development of novel therapeutics against: Candida auris; Aspergillus fumigatus; Coccidioides; and Mucorales. |
| 3,500,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | 3 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Carbon Cycle Science | Projects that make significant use of remote sensing data to improve understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, coastal, and atmospheric reservoirs. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities) | Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions, and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications. | |
| 1 | 02/12/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence | Develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence. | ||
| 3,000,000 | No | 02/14/2025 | 4 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Earth Action: Ecological Conservation | Projects that apply Earth observations to improve or develop decision-making activities in ecological conservation and management. |
| 10,000 | No | 02/15/2025 | 1 year | Water@UW-Madison | Community-Based Water Research Grants | Supports UW-Madison faculty, staff, or graduate students that engage community organizations, public sector entities, or grassroots groups to address water-related challenges. |
| 50,000,000 | No | 02/27/2025 | 7 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas | Provides support for rural and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities. |
| 20,000 | No | 02/28/2025 | 2 years | Rainforest Alliance | Kleinhans Fellowship for Community Forestry Research | Funds research that is oriented toward solving real-world problems as defined by community forest enterprises (CFEs). |
| 1,000,000 | No | 03/10/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Mitochondrial-associated Mechanisms of Neuropathological and Immunodeficient Aging in the Context of HIV and SUD (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | Promote research investigating protective and pathogenic mechanisms at the nexus of mitochondria function and aging in the context of HIV infection and exposure to addictive substances. |
| 1 | No | 05/01/2025 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) | To extend current NSF use-inspired research projects that are adventurous, high-risk, and have the potential for commercial translation or widespread adoption. |
| 500,000 | No | 05/13/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, nontoxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention. |
| 10,000,000 | Yes | 08/07/2025 | Burroughs Welcome Fund | Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers (Limited Submission) | Research, education, and public communications connections between fields that aim to understand and mitigate the impact of climate change on human health. | |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 3 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Connections | Projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields (physical, natural sciences; law & business; computer & data science). |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 2 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 11/01/2025 | 2 years | Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) | Annual Request for Proposals | Funds expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet (no IDC allowed). |
| 1 | No | 01/15/2025 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF 25-502: Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) | NSF - National Science Foundation | Potential projects may explore the interaction between critical natural processes such as land cover change, climate patterns and sociocultural systems and behavior. Resilience and robustness of sociocultural and socio-ecological systems under stress, including natural and anthropogenic disasters. |
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- The Writing Center (UW-Madison)
- Libraries Research Guides (UW-Madison)
- Libraries Teaching & Learning (UW-Madison)
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- Sustainability Research Hub works collaboratively with CALS Grant Development to submit proposals (supports matchmaking, proposal development, project coordination, editing, graphics, budget development).
- medRISE (Research Investigator Support and Education) is housed in the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH).
- Collective for Research Impact and Social Partnerships (CRISP) connects partners to researchers, bridges different cultures and contexts, translates and aligns interests, and moves alliances and projects forward (College of Letters & Science).
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