All Opportunities
for faculty
Amazon Research Award
Award Info:
Award up to $80,000 to fund postdoc/grad students.
Description:
Spring 2022:
AI for Information Security
Amazon Science Community and Machine Learning University
Amazon Advertising
Alexa: Fairness in AI
Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Award
Award Info:
Two three-year awards will be made in 2022, at the level of $300,000 total ($100,000 per year), of which a maximum of 8% may be used for indirect expenses or institutional overhead. The amount and the duration of the award may be modified if during the review process or at the funding stage it is…
Description:
The "Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG)" initiative provides timely support to a small number of research projects that are relatively high risk but which offer significant promise of yielding transforming discoveries in the fundamental biology of aging. Projects which build on early discoveries that…
Individual Investigator Research Awards
Award Info:
Up to $400,000 per year. Exceptions permitted if extremely well justified; maximum duration: 4 years.
Description:
Supports applications for innovative research projects addressing critically important questions that will significantly advance knowledge of the causes, prevention, and/or treatment of cancer. Areas of interest include laboratory research, translational studies, and/or clinical investigations. Competitive…
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)
Award Info:
Within Mid-scale RI-1, proposers may submit two types of projects, “Implementation” (e.g., acquisition/construction) and “Design”. The “Design” track is intended to facilitate progress toward readiness for a mid-scale range implementation project. Both Implementation…
Description:
The NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Program (Mid-scale RI-1) supports the design or implementation of unique and compelling RI projects. Mid-scale RI-1 implementation projects may include any combination of equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly used large-scale datasets,…
Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Award Info:
Unrestricted cash prize of $50,000 is awarded to each prizewinner
Description:
You were born outside the United States
You are not more than 38 years old
You have conducted creative, independent research in basic, applied, and/or translational biomedical science
SFARI Research Awards
Award Info:
The maximum budget is $1,300,000, including indirect costs, over a period of up to four years.
All applicants and key collaborators must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree and have a faculty position or the equivalent at a college, university, medical school or other research facility.…
Description:
The goal of the Research Award is to provide support for investigation of key unresolved research questions in autism, particularly those that connect genetic etiologies to brain function and behavior. SFARI welcomes risk and novelty in Research Award proposals, but potential impact on the autism…
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…
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
Award Info:
The HNDS-I track anticipates funding approximately 4 infrastructure projects; HNDS-R anticipates co-funding from 5 to 20 core research projects. HNDS-R proposals will be co-reviewed with other SBE programs.
Anticipated Funding Amount for all awards per year: $8 million. Estimated program budget,…
Description:
The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior and how humans interact with and are influenced by their environments by leveraging data science and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify…
Law and Science
Award Info:
No limit
Description:
The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals…
Media Projects: Production Grants
Award Info:
Maximum award amount $1 million
Period of performance Twelve to thirty-six months
Description:
The Media Projects: Production Grants program supports the production and distribution of radio, podcast, television, and long-form documentary film projects that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. All projects must be grounded in humanities scholarship…