As part of our effort to enhance the information available to our faculty, the Office of Development provides information regarding various external research funding opportunities. This page is updated weekly so we invite you to visit this page often. Please note: this is by no means a comprehensive list of all external funding opportunities available to faculty.

Below is a list with hard deadlines. To see a list of opportunities with open deadlines, click here.

Sponsor	Program	Deadline	Award
NSF	Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects  (MCB)	5/21/2012	Varies
NSF	Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC-SBE/EHR)	5/22/2012	Up to $200,000
NIJ	Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence	5/22/2012	Unspecified - $1 million available for entire program
Rockefeller Foundation	Innovation Challenges	5/25/2012	$100,000
WRCE	Career Development Awards	5/29/2012	$160,000 (direct costs) per year for one-and-a-half years
NIJ	Research on the Link Between Victimization and Offending	5/29/2012	$375,000
NIJ	Violent Victimization Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities	5/29/2012	Between $250,000-$750,000
NSF	Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program (CC-NIE)	5/30/2012	Varies by project
NIJ	Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime	5/31/2012	Up to $750,000 for three years
Defense Threat Reduction Agency	Advanced Detector Development (ADD) Research and Development Program	6/1/2012	Unspecified
NSF	Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)	6/1/2012	Varies by project
SRC	Cross-disciplinary Semiconductor Research (CSR)	6/4/2012	$40,000 for one year
NSF	Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences  (MCTP)	6/5/2012	Varies with type of program
NSF	Geophysics	6/5/2012	Varies by program
NSF	Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)	6/5/2012	Up to $500,000 per year for five years
NSF	Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys	6/6/2012	$100,000
NINDS	Faculty Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (K01)	6/12/2012	Up to $185,000 a year for three years
NSF	Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum (EARS)	6/14/2012	Up to $500,000 for up to three years
NIH	Research Networks for Macromolecular Interactions in Cells (U54)	6/14/2012	$500,000 a year for five years
NIH	Pilot and Feasibility Clinical Research Grants in Kidney or Urologic Diseases (R21)	6/16/2012	$275,000 over two years
Department of the Army	DOD FY12 Peer Reviewed Cancer Career Development Award	Pre-application: 6/19/2012	$240,000 plus indirect costs for three years
DOEduc	Institute of Education Sciences (IES): Education Research Program CFDA	6/21/2012	Between $100,000 and $1,000,000 for up to five years
NSF	Frontiers in Earth System Dynamics	7/2/2012 (required preliminary proposal)	Varies by Type
NSF	GeoPrisms Program	7/2/2012	$500,000
NSF	Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) in Engineering	7/3/2012	Unspecified - Proposal budget should be commensurate with the scope of the work
USAMRAA	The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM)  II	7/11/2012	$32,500,000
NSF	Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering  (REESE)	7/17/2012	Varies by program
NSF	Failure-Resistant Systems (FRS)	7/26/2012	Up to $400,000 over three years
NSF	Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs)	7/26/2012: Conceptual	$100,000 for one year
NSF	Science, Technology, and Society (STS)	8/1/2012	Varies by program
NSF	Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)	8/1/2012	$150,000
NIH	Development and Translation of Medical Technologies to Reduce Health Disparities (R43/R44)	LOI: 8/21/2012	Budgets up to $200,000 total costs per year for Phase I and up to $400,000 total costs per year for Phase II may be requested.
NSF	Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs)	8/30/2012 Implementation & Interoperability Tracks	The average award size for implementation awards is anticipated to be approximately $8 million total over 5 years; the award size for interoperability awards is anticipated to be up to $1.5 million total over 3 years.
NIH	U.S.-China Program for Biomedical Collaborative Research (R01)	9/18/2012	Up to $200,000 a year for three years
ONR	FY12 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Programs	9/30/2012	$200,000 per year for up to three years
NIH	NCI Transition Career Development Award (K22)	10/12/2012	Up to $100,000 annually plus fringe benefits to offset the full-time salary requirements, and up to $50,000 per annum for research related expenses
NSF	CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science	12/4/2012	Up to $250,000

Funding opportunities with open deadlines

Sponsor	Program	Award
Alfred P. Sloan	Basic Research	Guidelines differ for proposals under $125,000 and over $125,000
Applied BioPhysics	Early Career Mini-Grants	Unspecified
Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research	AHRQ Postdoctoral Fellowship Program	The amount of Fellow stipends is decided by the awarding unit, NIH, and is based on graduate status of the Fellow.
CPRIT	Recruitment of Established Investigators	No limit
CPRIT	Recruitment of Rising Stars	Up to $2.5 million over five years
CPRIT	Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Members	Up to $2 million over four years
Department of Energy	Conferences, Outreach and Networking for New Energy Communities and Technologies (CONNECT)	Between $5,000-$25,000 Note: deadline is on rolling basis through Dec. 2012
Electric Power Research Institute	Student Program	Unspecified
Fox (Michael J.) Foundation for Parkinson's Research	Critical Challenges in Parkinson's Disease--Biomarker Development	Unspecified
National Geographic Society	Waitts Grant Program	Up to $15,000
NIST	Measurement, Science and Engineering Research Grants Program	Between $25,000 - $1,500,000 for up to five years
ONR	RFP -- Research and Development Engineering Services in the Field of Pulsed Power Plasma Physics	Unspecified