Limited Submission Announcements
These programs are those that limit the number of applications that the university can submit. If you are interested in applying to one of these programs, please click the link below. Only those who fill out the form by the deadline will be eligible to participate in internal competitions. To view additional limited submission opportunities, visit the RDO's limited submission website here.
IUSE: GEOPATHS invites proposals that specifically address the current needs and opportunities related to undergraduate education within the geosciences community. The primary goal of the IUSE: GEOPATHS funding opportunity is to increase the number of undergraduate students interested in pursuing undergraduate degrees and/or post-graduate degrees in geoscience through the design and testing of novel approaches for engaging students in authentic, career-relevant experiences in geoscience. In order to broaden participation in the geosciences, engaging undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented groups or from non-geoscience degree programs is a priority.
Limit: 1 per institution, as sole or lead institution.
Internal due date: Notification of Interest: 7/20/17Agency due date: LOI: 8/18/17; Full Proposal: 10/10/17
NSF: Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Supplements and Sites
NSF's Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) have joined to support this program. This program supports active long-term collaborative partnerships between K-12 STEM in-service and pre-service teachers, full-time community college faculty, and university faculty and students to enhance the scientific disciplinary knowledge and capacity of the STEM teachers and/or community college faculty through participation in authentic summer research experiences with engineering and computer science faculty researchers.
Limit: 1 per institution, as sole or lead institution.
Internal due date: Notification of Interest:7/27/17Agency due date: Nomination deadline: 10/10/17
This program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.
Limit: 1 per institution, as sole or lead institution.
Internal due date: Notification of Interest: 8/24/17Agency due date: Nomination deadline: 11/6/17
Simons Foundation: Simons Investigators in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (MMLS)
The Simons Foundation invites nominations for Simons Investigators in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems (MMLS), a joint program of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences and Life Sciences divisions of the Simons Foundation. Investigators in MMLS are outstanding scientists, often with mathematics or theoretical physics backgrounds, now engaged in research based on mathematical modeling in the life sciences. An Investigator is appointed for a period of five years and will receive research support in the amount of $100,000 per year. An additional $10,000 per year will be provided to the Investigator’s department.
Limit: 2 per institution
Internal due date: Notification of Interest: 9/21/17Agency due date: Nomination deadline: 10/31/17
Simons Foundation: Math+X Investigators
This program is designed to encourage novel collaborations between mathematics and other fields in science or engineering by providing funds to professors at universities to establish programs at the interface between mathematics and other fields of science or engineering. A Math+X Investigator is appointed for a period of five years and will receive support in the amount of $300,000 per year, which includes up to 20 percent in indirect costs to the Investigator’s institution.
Limit: 1 per institution
Other upcoming limited submission deadlines:
NSF MRI - LOI: 7/20/17
NSF MRI - LOI: 7/20/17
Non-Limited Funding Opportunit
Agency for International Development: Implementer-led Design, Evidence, Analysis and Learning (IDEAL)
IDEAL is intended to improve the food security and nutrition of vulnerable populations through improving the design, implementation and overall effectiveness of development and emergency food security activities funded by FFP. This quality improvement effort is intended to address knowledge and capacity gaps in the food security and nutrition implementing community, and support the application of evidence and learning through knowledge sharing and peer learning efforts, capacity strengthening, stakeholder consultation, a grants component to support new knowledge and innovation, and a specialized focus on the generation and use of evidence and learning. IDEAL will seek to understand and meet the knowledge needs of implementing partner organizations throughout the program cycle through participatory approaches rather than top-down donor directives.
Agency due date: August 9, 2017
NC Biotechnology Center: Institutional Development Grant
The purpose of the Institutional Development Grant program is to enhance and grow the infrastructure for biotechnology research at North Carolina research institutions. Grant funds support the purchase of research equipment or instrumentation that serve multiple investigators. Proposals from UNC-CH, NCSU and Duke require at least six investigators.
Agency due date: August 30, 2017
This program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines of the three participating CISE divisions by supporting the creation and enhancement of world-class research infrastructure that will support focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. This infrastructure will enable CISE researchers to advance the frontiers of CISE research. Further, through the CRI program CISE seeks to ensure that individuals from a diverse range of academic institutions, including minority-serving and predominantly undergraduate institutions, have access to such infrastructure.
Agency due date: January 1, 2018
DOD (Defense Threat Reduction Agency): Science and Technology New Initiatives
This BAA is an extramural endeavor focused on innovative research and development (R&D) activities and related study efforts that advance technical state-of-the-art or increase knowledge and understanding of overarching challenges for countering WMD. The purpose of this BAA is to solicit proposals for DTRA J9 program requirements. This BAA is in effect from November 2016 through October 2021 and is open continuously for submissions to the R&D TAs during this time. The Government reserves the right to amend the BAA at any time to capture, but not limited to, ongoing, new or emerging requirements with new or different R&D Technology Areas. On a limited basis, Addendums to this BAA may be published that detail more specific or urgent topics. Offerors should note that the topics posted in Addendums are likely to have formal proposal deadlines and be available for a limited time.
Agency due date: Open through October 2021
