All Opportunities
for all applicants
Summer Student Fellowship Fight for Sight
Award Info:
Unrestricted awards of $2,500 are given for two to three months of full-time research, usually during June-August. Students receiving stipends from other sources are generally not eligible.
Description:
Summer Student Fellowships are available to undergraduate, graduate and medical students who are interested in pursuing eye-related clinical or basic research. For most students, this is their first exposure to eye or vision research and the experience has resulted in many students choosing academic…
APF Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford Grant
Award Info:
Up to $1,900
Description:
The Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford Grant will support graduate students and early career researchers conducting work focusing on the understanding, prevention and/or treatment of the consequences of exposure to traumatic events such as sexual assault, sexual harassment and/or rape.
Henry P. David Grants for Research in Human Reproductive Behavior and Population Studies
Award Info:
$1,000 for work in the behavioral aspects of human reproductive behavior or an area related to population concerns.
Description:
The American Psychological Foundation’s Henry David Fund was established to support young psychologists with a demonstrated interest in the behavioral aspects of human reproductive behavior or an area related to population concerns.
Travel Grants and Mentoring Travel Grants
Award Info:
Anyone who has been awarded an AWM-NSF travel grant in the past two years is ineligible. Anyone receiving more than $2000 yearly in external governmental funding for travel is ineligible.
Description:
The Association for Women in Mathematics has administered the NSF-AWM Travel Grant Program for Women since 1988, supporting both travel to domestic or foreign research conferences and, more recently, longer-term visits with a mentor.
Enabling women mathematicians to attend conferences in their…
Autism Research Initiative Bridge to Independence
Award Info:
Awardees will receive a commitment of $495,000 over three years, activated upon assumption of a tenure-track professorship.
Description:
This request for applications (RFA) is aimed at senior postdoctoral fellows who intend to seek tenure-track faculty positions during the 2019-2020 academic year.
BTI grants are awarded through a multi-stage process. The first stage is a competitive process in which Letters of Intent (LOIs)…
Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
Award Info:
The number of awards is dependent upon the proposals received and the degree to which proposals meet the solicitation goals, NSF merit review criteria, and solicitation-specific review criteria. The planning grant is for one year and the proposed budget for each planning grant should not exceed $100,000.
Description:
The ERC program is placing greater emphasis on high-risk/high-payoff research, larger societal impact, convergent research approaches, engagement of stakeholder communities, and adoption of team science in team formation, in response to the 2017 NASEM study recommendation. The ERC program intends to…
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
Award Info:
Each program area will support awards pursuant to the following budget and duration:
Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS) and Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD) awards will be supported at up to $600,000 total per award for up to 3 years; and
Transition to…
Description:
The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to develop, deploy and integrate solutions that benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, distributed, and rapid…
2022 Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
Award Info:
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree; must have carried out research in a tenure-track or equivalent independent position for at least one year and no more than eight years (start date between November 2009 and November 2016) and must currently hold a tenure-track, tenured, or equivalent…
Description:
Microbes inhabit and sustain all habitats on Earth. In the oceans, microbes capture solar energy, catalyze biogeochemical transformations of important elements, produce and consume greenhouse gases, and provide the base of the food web. The purpose of the program is to help launch the careers of outstanding…
Large Research Grants on Education Program
Award Info:
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.
Description:
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that…
National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0)
Award Info:
NSF supported projects will range from $250,000 to $1,500,000 in total costs for a period of up to four years.
Description:
The National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0) program builds upon the preceding National Robotics Initiative (NRI) programs to support fundamental research in the United States that will advance the science of robot integration. The program supports research…