To view previously announced funding opportunities, visit the RDO website. Items of interest to our college are highlighted in yellow.
NIH @ NC State Grantsmanship Series
The Research Development Office’s (RDO) Proposal Development Unit (PDU) invites everyone in the NC State community to participate in the NIH @ NC State Grantsmanship Series. These monthly seminars will acquaint you with the basics of NIH. Registration is not required, but please fill out the interest form so that the team can let you know about any event updates.
Next up: NIH Opportunities for New Investigators
Topics include: An introduction to NIH training and career development mechanisms, NIH’s Next Generation of Researchers Initiative, and some Institute-specific opportunities.
Date: 1/22/2020 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: 4280 Talley Student Center
Limited Submission Funding Opportunities
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 "Notification of Interest" link and fill out the form. Only those who fill out the form by the deadline will be eligible to participate in internal reviews. For more information about the limited submission process and the limited submission calendar, go here.
Grants for Arts Projects is the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grants program. Through project-based funding, they support public engagement with, and access to, various forms of excellent art across the nation, the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Projects may be large or small, existing or new, and may take place in any part of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Review the program disciplines for additional information.
Limit - 1 per organization
Sponsor deadline - 2/13/2020, by 11:59 p.m.
*New NIH Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program-PREP (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The Overarching objective of PREP is to develop a diverse pool of well-trained postbaccalaureate participants who will transition into and complete rigorous biomedical, research-focused doctoral degree programs (e.g., Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.) in biomedical fields relevant to the NIGMS mission. NIGMS intends to fund applications that propose feasible research education programs that will enhance diversity in the biomedical workforce. Programs are expected to have mentors from a broad range of biomedical disciplines relevant to the NIGMS mission to provide a breadth of research experiences to participants. Proposed programs focused on a single discipline (e.g., neuroscience, immunology, etc.) will be a low priority for funding. Funded programs should have training objectives (i.e., specific, measurable, and obtainable outcomes the program intends to achieve) and implement evidence-informed training and mentoring activities that are grounded in the literature and from evaluations of existing relevant programs. Program objectives must align with the overarching goal of PREP. Funded programs are expected to provide evidence of accomplishing the training objectives in progress reports and upon renewal, to make training and career outcomes publicly available, and are strongly encouraged to disseminate successful training practices to the broader community.
Limit - 1 per institution
Sponsor deadline - 2/21/2020
The Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award is intended to identify the most talented Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who intend to make a long-term commitment to research in the Environmental Health Sciences and assist them in launching an innovative research program focused on the understanding of environmental exposure effects on people’s health. Please note, this opportunity is limited by college and not at the university level. Interested faculty should contact their department head as well as their Associate Dean for Research (ADR) to understand how the college will select its nominee. Colleges should report their nominees to the RDO by emailing limited-submission@ncsu.edu
Internal deadline - Contact your college research office for information
Limit - Only 1 application per college
Sponsor deadline - 2/28/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program addresses the need for a high quality STEM workforce in STEM disciplines and for the increased success of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who are pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships and to advance the adaptation, implementation, and study of effective evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM. The S-STEM program encourages collaborations among different types of partners: Partnerships among different types of institutions; collaborations of STEM faculty and institutional, educational, and social science researchers; and partnerships among institutions of higher education and local business and industry, if appropriate.
Internal deadline - Contact your college research office for information
Limit - Only 1 application per college awarding STEM degrees
Sponsor deadline - 3/25/2020, by 5:00 p.m.
Scholar Award Opportunities
The Marshall Space Flight Center is offering Aerospace Fellowships for qualified researchers and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities to conduct research with NASA colleagues during a ten-week residential program in Huntsville, Alabama. The fellowship is open to any full-time teaching or research faculty at any accredited U.S. university or college.
Application deadline: 2/7/2020
Internal Funding Opportunities
Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities!
Visit RDO’s Internal Funding Programs website for information regarding NC State sponsored opportunities.
Inter-Institutional Funding Opportunities
University of North Carolina System Research Opportunities Initiative (ROI)
ROI provides targeted funding for innovative and potentially game‐changing research initiatives. The 2020 round of awards will focus on institutional block grants to fund initiatives designed to increase research capacity in one of the eligible research areas. Funded by a recurring annual appropriation from the North Carolina General Assembly, the ROI represents a significant financial investment in the UNC System’s strategic goals. Priority research areas eligible for ROI funding include advanced manufacturing; marine and coastal science; defense, military, and security; pharmacoengineering; energy; and data science. ROI awards demonstrate North Carolina’s growing appreciation of the role that university research can play in supporting economic development across our state. The UNC System ROI accepts proposals from any institution in the 17‐campus UNC system. Institutions may only submit ONE proposal each. Proposals will be accepted only from the Chief Research Officer and Chief Academic Officer jointly.
Limit- 1 per institution
Sponsor deadlines- 3/1/2020
The aim of the Internationalization Seed Grant program is to provide grants that improve the range of international partnerships at NC State and foster meaningful, collaborative, global scholarship and engagement. Proposals are reviewed by the Committee on International Programs (CIP). Strategic and deliberate collaborations that lead to the development of joint research proposals, student mobility programs, adjunct appointments and scholarly activities are encouraged. The maximum award, not including cost sharing funds from domestic and international partners, is $5000.
Proposal deadline: 1/9/2020
Since 2014, the RTI University Scholars Program has provided partial support for distinguished academic researchers to spend scholarly leave time at RTI, actively collaborating with our experts. The ideal Scholar is a tenured or research-track faculty member at the Associate Professor level or higher with a commitment to collaboration and a strong research record in a field that aligns with RTI’s practice areas and services and capabilities. The program’s goal is to foster collaboration and catalyze opportunities for externally funded, joint projects in the future.
For the 2020-2021 Academic Year cycle, the RTI University Scholars Program is open to faculty from Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s 16 university campuses. For additional information as well as a complete list of NC State’s previous RTI University Scholars, please see the Research Development Office’s website.
**Any interested faculty may contact RDO to be connected with a RTI program manager for additional information and networking opportunities!
The Academic Consortium for the 21st Century (AC21) was established on June 24, 2002 at the International Forum hosted by Nagoya University, Japan, as an international network comprised of educational, research and industrial organizations throughout the world. Consisting of 18 institutions, the AC21 seeks to promote cooperation in education and research bridging between different societies in the world to share wisdom and knowledge on different cultures necessary for co-existence beyond national and regional boundaries. The AC21 Special Project Fund was created in order to promote the development of research and educational exchange between AC21 members by providing seed funding for a variety of collaborative research projects and activities. Up to $10,000 per project will be awarded.
Application due date: 1/31/2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s NC TraCS Institute partners with NC State’s Office of Research and Innovation and the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) to promote interdisciplinary inter-institutional collaborative research teams. This pilot program is designed to encourage and facilitate novel clinical and translational research that applies or accelerates discovery into testing in clinical or population settings. Cross-disciplinary translational research addressing the development of therapies, diagnostics or devices applicable to human disease and clinical research/trials are areas of interest for these awards.
Application deadlines: 3/24/2020, 7/28/2020, 11/17/2020
Non-limited Funding Opportunities
The goal of the ASCENT program is to support the engineering research community as it fulfills its unique leadership role in advancing engineering and the economic prosperity of the nation. ASCENT proposals must clearly frame a cutting-edge convergent approach to a research challenge that critically involves one or more Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS) cluster research areas. The integration of disciplinary expertise not typically engaged in ECCS-funded projects is encouraged. ASCENT is intended to support ambitious and far-reaching fundamental engineering research projects that may exceed the scope and strain the resources of an individual ECCS core program. ASCENT supports multi-investigator projects with a duration up to four years and a total budget from $1 million to $1.5 million.
Letter of Intent due date (required): 1/7/2020
Full proposal deadline: 2/19/2020
NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS)- Foundations Supplement
The Foundations proposal class (formerly referred to as Integrative Foundations) includes proposals for smaller projects, typically less than $250,000, that would lead to ambitious new research agendas via: (1) achievement of technical proof-of-concept, on which a broader set of further research goals depends; or (2) critical synthesis (e.g., meta-analysis) and/or convening of communities/literatures that have not sufficiently been brought into productive contact. It is expected that such activities could serve as the basis for larger future projects. The program focuses on four aspects of neural and cognitive systems that are current targets of converging interdisciplinary interests. NCS projects must advance the foundations of one or more of the following focus areas: Neuroengineering and Brain-Inspired Concepts and Designs, Individuality and Variation, Cognitive and Neural Processes in Realistic, Complex Environments, and Data-Intensive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.
Letter of Intent due date (required): 1/8/2020
Full proposal deadline: 2/26/2020
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations. NCSES welcomes proposals for research, workshops and studies to advance the development, understanding, and quality of the S&T enterprise. Research could include improved approaches to indicator construction and presentation, new S&T indicator development, strengthening of methodologies to improve the surveys of S&T data, analytical or theoretical work on S&T policy relevant issues, and better understanding of the S&T enterprise in the United States and globally.
Application due date: 1/15/2020
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the National Archives supports projects that promote access to America's historical records to encourage understanding of our democracy, history, and culture. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission seeks projects that will significantly improve public discovery and use of major historical records collections. The Commission is especially interested in collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. The NHPRC welcomes collaborative projects, particularly for bringing together related records from multiple institutions. Projects that address significant needs in the field and result in replicable and scalable approaches will be more competitive. Organizations are encouraged to actively engage the public in the work of the project. A grant is for one to three years. Awards will be between $100,000 and $350,000. It is expected that five grants will be awarded for a total of up to $1,000,000.
Preliminary proposal deadline: 1/16/2020
Full proposal deadline (invitation only): 7/9/2020
Patagonia is seeking applications for its Environmental Grants Program to support innovative work that addresses the root causes of the environmental crisis and seeks to protect both the environment and affected communities. They encourage work that brings underrepresented communities to the forefront of the environmental movement and defends communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. They support multi-pronged campaigns that push for greater environmental protections and force the government to abide by its own laws. Grants up to $12,000 may be requested.
Application due date: 1/31/2020
The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Because the complicated nature of the power grid itself presents a major barrier to its modeling and simulation, the AMPS program aims to catalyze fruitful collaborative research projects to develop mathematical and statistical tools needed to address operational and planning issues for the power grid. The program encourages interdisciplinary efforts, with the involvement of experts in a variety of disciplines such as power system engineering, mathematics, statistics, and financial mathematics.
Application due date: 2/10/2020
The NIMH Instrumentation Program encourages applications from NIH funded investigators to purchase or upgrade a single commercially available instrument or a group of components to create an instrument that is not commercially available. Examples of instruments that might be submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) include light microscopes, electron microscopes, spectrophotometers, and biomedical imagers. The equipment must be for mental health research purposes (teaching or clinical applications will be considered out of scope). Applications should be for direct costs between $300,000 and $600,000 (indirect costs cannot be requested for equipment.)
Application due dates: 2/10/2020, 10/9/2020, 10/8/2021
*New NSF National Priorities: Research on PFAS Impact in Rural Communities and Agricultural Operations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications to better understand the potential impacts of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on water quality and availability in rural communities and agricultural operations across the United States. Please see the RFA for further information. Approximately three awards are anticipated, up to a total of $1,610,752 per award. There are two distinct areas of research covered by this solicitation, and applicants should address one of these areas: Better understanding of PFAS occurrence, fate, and transport in water sources used by rural communities and agricultural operations; Novel or improved PFAS treatment methods appropriate for small drinking water and wastewater systems including influents, effluents, and biosolids/residuals.
Application due date: 2/11/2020
The ECO-CBET solicitation will support activities that substantially advance our capabilities to address environmental and sustainability grand challenges by integrating the expertise and fundamental advancements of chemical processes, transport phenomena, and bioengineering. The proposed research is expected to be compelling and broad reaching, going well beyond that typically supported by any single CBET core program. This solicitation is an opportunity to build and sustain collaborative bridges with research communities across the programmatic clusters of CBET, which include - Chemical Process Systems, Engineering Biology and Health, Environmental Engineering and Sustainability, and Transport Phenomena. Teams are expected to work cooperatively over the life of the project to understand and address the proposed challenge. Teams are also encouraged to apply, and further develop, advanced research tools required to address problems of the magnitude represented by global environmental and sustainability challenges. Training the future workforce to step outside the bounds of their discipline to solve a pressing engineering problem is also integral to the objectives of the solicitation.
Preliminary proposal due date (required): 2/12/2020
Full proposal due date: 4/30/2020
NIH: Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The NIH Common Fund is looking for researchers to utilize Common Fund Data resources and provide feedback on the utility of the data. Data sets that will be made available include: 4D Nucleome, Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx), Illuminating the Druggable Genome (PHAROS), Integrated Human Microbiome Project, Kids First cohort (KF DRC), Knockout Mouse Phenotying Program (KOMP2), Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS), and the Metabolomics Workbench. Pilot projects are limited to $200,000 for 1 year of support.
Application due date: 2/19/2020
*New NIH Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Molecular and Cellular Analysis Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R33 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
The National Cancer Institute solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on further development and validation of emerging technologies offering novel capabilities for targeting, probing, or assessing molecular and cellular features of cancer biology for basic or clinical cancer research. This FOA solicits R33 applications where major feasibility gaps for the technology or methodology have been overcome, as demonstrated with supportive preliminary data, but still requires further development and rigorous validation to encourage adoption by the research community. Well-suited applications must offer the potential to accelerate and/or enhance research in the areas of cancer biology, early detection and screening, clinical diagnosis, treatment, control, epidemiology, and/or address issues associated with cancer health disparities. For projects that are earlier in design/feasibility testing, there are two companion R21 announcements (RFA-CA-20-017 and RFA-CA-20-019), and for projects specifically looking a biospecimen viability, there is a companion R33 (RFA-CA-20-020). Direct costs are limited to $300,000/year for up to 3 years.
Application due dates: 2/21/2020; 5/28/2020; 9/29/2020
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) is a two-track program. It supports research and infrastructure that uses data science to advance understanding of a full range of human networks. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual and group behavior. HNDS is especially interested in proposals that leverage data-rich insights about human networks to support improved health, prosperity, and security. The Infrastructure track focuses on the development of data resources and relevant analytic techniques that support fundamental Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) research in the context of human networks.
Application due date: 2/24/2020
*New NIH Transformative Technology Development for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit transformative technologies that will significantly expand throughput, multiplexing and discrimination of biomolecules in human tissues for comprehensive mapping of individual cells and their context in human tissues. This FOA supports the accelerated proof-of-principle demonstration and validation of promising tools, techniques and systems that can be integrated, scaled and applied to multiple human tissues, particularly for characterizing functional modifications, lipids and the extracellular environment. The initial two-year UG3 phase will support accelerated development and demonstration of feasibility of these emerging, high impact technologies. The subsequent two-year UH3 phase will support validation in human tissues, optimization, scale-up, and generation of data. Funded projects will be expected to work closely as part of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program to catalyze development of a framework for 3D mapping the human body with high resolution. Budgets are limited to $250,000 direct cost/year during the UG3 phase, and $400,000 direct cost/year during the UH3 phase.
Application due date: 3/3/2020
*New NIH: National Centers for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
NICHD seeks center applicants to address poorly understood areas of infertility and other related reproductive disorders. The research activities included in these center grants must comprise, by definition, a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical problems addressing the specific research topic areas discussed in this FOA. Furthermore, the objectives of this Program require that at least one of the research projects be entirely or predominantly clinical, and that all basic science projects be linked to the clinical project (s) of the center. The use of 'omic methodologies, particularly multiomic approaches that combine and synthesize data from multiple 'omic datasets, are strongly encouraged to apply. Centers will consist of 2-4 Research Projects, an Administrative Core, an Education/Outreach Core, and up to two optional Technical Service Cores. Budgets are limited to $1.0 million/year direct costs for up to 5 years.
