All Opportunities
for faculty
Scholar Awards
Award Info:
Each year, up to six scholars are selected to receive three years’ support. Currently, awards are $75,000 per year. Funds may be used in any way that will facilitate development of the Scholar’s research program, but not for indirect costs.
Description:
The Scholar Awards have been given annually since 1977. They were the McKnight Foundation’s earliest means of supporting neuroscience research. In 1999, in revising the awards program, the Endowment Fund board continued the Scholar Awards but with the new goal of addressing problems with imminent…
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,…
UTSW O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center Pilot and Feasibility Grant
Award Info:
The P&F grant provides 1-2 awards up to $35,000 support for one year, depending on availability of funds. No more than 10 percent of the grant may be used to support the principal investigator’s salary and fringe benefits.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we…
Description:
The UT Southwestern O’Brien Kidney Research Core Center announces the availability of the Pilot and Feasibility Grant (P&F) to support studies on the kidney and renal disease. The grant is designed to support the generation of preliminary data that will lead to subsequent NIH funding. Projects…
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…
Media Projects: Development Grants
Award Info:
Maximum award amount $75,000
Period of performance Six to twelve months
Description:
The Media Projects: Development Grants program supports the collaboration of media producers and scholars to develop humanities content and to prepare documentary film, television, radio, and podcast projects that engage public audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways. Awards…
National Digital Newspaper Program
Award Info:
Maximum award amount $325,000
Open to: Organizations
Expected output: Digitized Newspapers;Web Resources
Period of performance:Two years
Description:
The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. This…
The BARD International Workshop Grant
Award Info:
Award amount: Varies: $20,000 to $45,000
Description:
Purpose: The purpose of the BARD workshop is to identify research needs in areas of new development, to define directions and opportunities regarding contemporary agricultural needs and provide information needed to address policy issues. The workshop is intended to promote increased…
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…
Discovery Grants
Award Info:
The principal investigator must be personally and actively responsible for the conduct
of the proposed research, hold an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent academic degree, and be eligible to
apply as a Principal Investigator by their institution. The principal investigator need not be a United
Description:
The National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) is seeking grant applications that encourage the advancement of
innovative research into psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and related comorbidities. Discovery Grants fund
researchers while they explore preliminary ideas and conduct proof-of-concept…
Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
Award Info:
Awards are expected to range from $1,200,000 - $1,8000,000 for a duration of four years. The budget must be commensurate with the scope of the project and thoroughly justified in the proposal.
Description:
DMREF will support activities that significantly accelerate materials discovery and development by building the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the design and development of materials with desirable properties or functionality. This will be accomplished through forming interdisciplinary…