Funding Opportunities

State and federal funding opportunities available for ag sciences research.

USDA - Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP)

Applications due June, 29, 2020
USDA - Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF) Grants Program

Application due June 22, 2020
NIH - Superfund Research Program Occupational Health and Safety Education Programs on Emerging Technologies (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due July 3, 2020; Applications due August 3, 2020
NIH - U.S. - India Collaborative Environmental Health Research Program (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Applications due October 15, 2020
NIH - Coordinating Unit to Support the Kidney, Urology and Hematology (KUH) Innovative Science Accelerator Program (ISAC-CU) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due July 4, 2020; Applications due August 4, 2020
NIH - Identifying Innovative Mechanisms or Interventions that Target Multimorbidity and Its Consequences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Proposals due October 5, 2020
NIH - Advancing Research to Develop Improved Measures and Methods for Understanding Multimorbidity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Proposals due October 5, 2020
USDA - Equipment Grant Program (EGP)

Proposals due June 23, 2020
NIH - Pilot Projects Investigating Understudied G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Ion Channels, and Protein Kinases (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due June 15, 2020; Applications due July 15, 2020
NIH - Mucosal Immunology Studies Team (MIST) (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due September 9, 2020; Applications due October 9, 2020
NIH - Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Due dates vary
USDA - Crop Protection and Pest Management

Applications due June 8, 2020
NIH - New Informatics Tools and Methods to Enhance U.S. Cancer Surveillance Research (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due November 18, 2020
NIH - National Centers for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NCBIB) (P41 Clinical Trials Optional)

Letter of Intent due 12 weeks prior to application; Application due May 25, 2020
DoD - Preparing for the Future: Developing Next Generation Ecological Models and Tools to Predict Ecological Futures for USACE Operations

Proposals due June 12, 2020
NSF - NSF Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Amazon (FAI)

Proposal due July 13, 2020
NSF - Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed-Differentiation Encoding (RECODE)

Proposal due May 14, 2020
NSF - Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET)

Proposal due May 14, 2020
USDA - Methyl Bromide Transition Program

Applications due May 22, 2020
NSF - Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)

Full Proposal due August 3, 2020
USDA APHIS NBAF Scientist Training Program: Fellowship Opportunity

Internal notice of intent due May 4, 2020; Full applications due June 1, 2020
USDA - APHIS NBAF Scientist Training Program: Fellowship Opportunity

Internal notice of intent due May 4, 2020; Full applications due June 1, 2020
USDA - Community Food Projects (CFP) Competitive Grants Program

Full proposals due June 3, 2020
NIH - Cooperative Agreement to Support FDA Land and Water Initiative (U01) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Applications due June 1, 2020
NIH - Tuberculosis Research Units (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due 30 prior to application; Application due September 28, 2020
NIH - Mechanisms and Consequences of Sleep Disparities in the U.S. (R01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due June 14, 2002; Applications due July 14, 2020
NIH - Innovation for HIV Vaccine Discovery (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Applications due July 28, 2020
NIH - Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Applications due June 5, 2020
NIH - Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 prior to application; Application due July 14, 2020
NIH - Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for Populations of Diverse Ancestry Centers (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due June 23, 2020
NIH - Revolutionizing Innovative, Visionary Environmental Health Research (RIVER) (R35 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Applications due June 18, 2020
NIH - Special Topic Research Education Course: Exploring Auditory and Vestibular Biology (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Applications due June 26, 2020
NIH - Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Centers (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due August 28, 2020
NIH - NIMHD Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Program (R21 - Clinical Trial Optional)

Applications due June 16, 2020
Northeast SARE Graduate Student Research Grant

Internal Notice of Intent due March 27, 2020; Applications due April 21, 2020
North Central Soybean Research Program

Proposals Due May 22, 2020
USDA – AFRI Education and Workforce Development Agricultural Workforce Training Grants

Applications due September 24, 2020
USDA – AFRI Education and Workforce Development Postdoctoral Fellowships

Applications due Aug 13, 2020
USDA – AFRI Education and Workforce Development Predoctoral Fellowship

Applications due August 13, 2020
USDA – AFRI Education and Workforce Development Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates

Applications due July 23, 2020
USDA – AFRI Education and Workforce Development Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy

Application due July 16, 2020
NIH - Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium Collaborative Sites (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due May 8, 2020' Application due June 8, 2020
NIH - NHGRI Technology Development Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due June 24, 2020
NIH - Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2021 (P2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due July 30, 2020
NIH - Incorporating cost effectiveness & societal outcomes into FDA opioids model (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due April 6, 2020; Applications due May 18, 2020
NIH - Exploring the use of Real-World Data to Generate Real-World Evidence in Regulatory Decision-Making (U01) Clinical Trials Optional

Applications due May 11, 2020
NIH - Retail Food Safety Association Collaboration (U18) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due March 26, 2020; Application due May 13, 2020
NIH - Kidney Technology Development Research Education Program (R25 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due June 22, 2020; Application due July 22, 2020
NIH - NIAMS Resource-based Centers for Bone, Muscle and Orthopaedic Research (BMOR) (P30 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due August 11, 2020
NIH - Partnerships for Countermeasures against Select Pathogens (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due June 29, 2020
NIH - Engineering Immunity to HIV-1 Through Next Generation Vaccines (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due July 28, 2020
NIH - Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research Coordinating Center (AITCC) (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due Sept 1, 2020; Application due Oct 1, 2020
NIH - Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories for Aging Research (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due Sept 1, 2020; Application due Oct 1, 2020
NIH - In-Depth Phenotyping and Research Using IMPC-Generated Knockout Mouse Strains Exhibiting Embryonic or Perinatal Lethality or Subviability (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due June 5, 2020
NIH - Core Infrastructure Support for Cancer Epidemiology Cohorts (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Application due April 7, 2020
NIH - Development and Maintenance of the Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards with Optional Coordinated Preventive Control Regulatory Activities and Capacity Building (U18) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due May 29, 2020; Application due May 13, 2020
NIH - Research Projects to Enhance Applicability of Mammalian Models for Translational Research (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Applications due June 5, 2020
NSF – Dear Colleague Letter on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Proposals due ASAP
NSF - Spectrum and Wireless Innovation enabled by Future Technologies

Full Proposals due April 10, 2020
NSF - International Research and education Network Connections

Full Proposals due April 8, 2020
FFAR – Vet Fellows

Nominations deadline extended to May 6, 2020; Full proposal invitation and full applications due May 27, 2020
Michael J. Fox Foundation - Investigating Environmental Factors that Increase the Risk for Parkinson’s Disease

Pre-Proposals Due April 23, 2020; Full Proposal Invitations June 11, 2020
NIH - Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Modulation of Glymphatic-Lymphatic Systems by Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due July 9, 2020
NIH - Exploring the Mechanisms Underlying Modulation of Glymphatic-Lymphatic Systems by Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due July 9, 2020
NIH - NIAMS Skin Biology and Diseases Resource-based Centers

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due August 11, 2020
NIH - Advancing Vaccine Science to Improve Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes for People Living With or Without HIV

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application; Application due July 28, 2020
NIH - NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens (U01) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due April 3, 2020; Full applications due May 11, 2020
NIH - Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Development of Disorders of the Nervous System

Applications due August 11, 2020
NIH - Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Development for Disorders of the Nervous System

Applications due August 11, 2020
NIH - Rational Design of Vaccines Against Hepatitis C Virus

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application due date; Applications due June 15, 2020
NIH - Three-Dimensional (3D) Human Biomimetics for Infectious Diseases

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application due date; Applications due May 29, 2020
NIH - Multidisciplinary Studies to Improve Understanding of Influenza Transmission

Letter of Intent due 30 days prior to application due date; 2020; Applications due June 23, 2020
NIH - Partnerships for the Development of Universal Influenza Vaccines

Applications due July 2, 2020
NIH - National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) – Wave 6

Letter of Intent due April 18, 2020; Application due Mat 18, 2020
NIH - Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators

Applications due October 2, 2020; October 4, 2021; October 3, 2022
NIH - Toward Translation of Nanotechnology Cancer Interventions (TTNCI)

Applications due May 21, 2020; November 19. 2020; May 20, 2021; November 18, 2021
NIH - Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program

Applications due June 1, 2020
NIH - Shared Instrumentation for Animal Research (SIFAR) Grant Program

Application due June 1, 2020
NSF - Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems (PPoSS)

Planning grants only due April 6, 2020; Planning grants and LARGE grants due January 25, 2021
NSF – General Social Survey (GSS) Competition

Letter of Intent due June 01, 2020; Full Proposal due August 17, 2020
NSF – Dimensions of Biodiversity

Full proposals due April 20, 2020
NSF - Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2020 (EFRI-2020)

Full proposals due April 9, 2020
NSF - Signals in the Soil (SitS)

Full proposal due May 20, 2020
NSF - EarthCube

Full proposals due March 12, 2020 for Science-Enabling Data Capabilities and Pilots and Research Coordination Networks
NSF - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB)

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)

Full proposals due March 5, 2020
NSF - EHR Core Research (ECR): Building Capacity in STEM Education Research (ECR: BCSER)

Full proposals due February 28, 2020
NSF - PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF)

Full proposals due February 27, 2020
NSF - National Robotics Initiative 2.0: Ubiquitous Collaborative Robots (NRI-2.0)

Full proposal window open February 12-26, 2020
NSF - Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS)

Full proposals due February 26, 2020
USDA - Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program (BRAG)

Letter of Intent (encouraged but not required) due February 12, 2020; Full proposals due March 18, 2020
NIH - Conduct Studies to Establish More Targeted Durations of Use for Certain Approved Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs in Food Animals (U01) Clinical Trials Optional

Letter of Intent due April 1, 2020; Full proposal due May 1, 2020
NIH - Building an Integrated Laboratory System to Advance the Safety of Human and Animal Food (U18) Clinical Trial Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due February 21, 2020; Full proposal due March 23, 2020
NIH - Advancing Conformance with the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (VNRFRPS) (U18) Clinical Trials Not Allowed

Letter of Intent due February 18, 2020; Full proposal due March 27, 2020
NIH - Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due May 10, 2020; Full proposal due June 9, 2020
NIH - Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U24 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due May 10, 2020; Full proposal due June 9, 2020
NIH - Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due May 10, 2020; Full proposal due June 9, 2020
NIH - Development of Innovative Informatics Methods and Algorithms for Cancer Research and Management (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

Letter of Intent due May 10, 2020; Full proposal due June 9, 2020
NIH - HEAL Initiative: Pragmatic and Implementation Studies for the Management of Pain to Reduce Opioid Prescribing (PRISM) (UG3/UH3, Clinical Trials Optional)

Letter of Intent due February 29, 2020; Full proposal due March 30, 2020
NIH - Genomic Community Resources (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due March 26, 2020; Full proposal due May 25, 2020
NSF - Competition for the Management of Operations and Maintenance of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

Letter of Intent due February 21, 2020; Full proposals due June 19, 2020
NIH - Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) Interdisciplinary Research Units (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due April 8, 2020; Full proposal due May 8, 2020
NSF - National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program

Full proposals due February 6, 2020
DOE - Systems Biology Research to Advance Sustainable Bioenergy Crop Development

Pre-Application due January 27, 2020; Proposals due March 26, 2020
DOE - Computational Tool Development For Integrative Systems Biology Data Analysis

Pre-Application due February 19, 2020; Proposals due April 9, 2020
DOE - Earth System Model Development and Analysis

Pre-Applications due February 14, 2020; Proposals due March 31, 2020
NSF - Growing Convergence Research (GCR)

Full proposals due February 3, 2020
NSF - Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Full proposals due January 31, 2020
NSF - Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet)

Full proposals due January 31, 2020
NSF - Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)

Full proposals due January 30, 2020
USDA - Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS)

Full proposals due February 24, 2020
NSF - Economics

Full proposals due January 21, 2020
NSF - Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*)

Full proposals due January 21, 2020
NSF - Biological Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Full proposals due January 21, 2020
NSF - Biological Anthropology

Full proposals due January 21, 2020
University of Auckland - Penn State Collaboration Seed Fund

Apply through InfoReady by March 15, 2020
NSF - Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2020

Full proposals due March 27, 2020
NSF - Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)

Full proposals due January 8, 2020
NSF - Addressing Systems Challenges through Engineering Teams (ASCENT)

Letter of Intent due January 7, 2020; Full proposal due February 19, 2020
NIH - Co-infection and Cancer (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due February 6, 2020; Full proposal due March 6, 2020
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics

Letter of Intent due December 20, 2019; Full proposals due February 6, 2020
NSF - Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval (SemiSynBio-II)

Full Proposal Submission Window: February 14, 2020 - March 16, 2020
NIH - The Role of Epitranscriptomics in Development and Disease

Full proposals due March 3, 2020
HABRI - Addressing Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction

Full proposals due February 13, 2020
NSF - Environmental Convergence Opportunities in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (ECO-CBET)

Preliminary proposals due February 12, 2020; Full proposals due April 30, 2020
NSF - Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)

Full proposals due March 9, 2020
NSF - Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)

Full proposals due December 13, 2019
NSF - Smart and Connected Health (SCH)

Full proposals due December 11, 2019
NIH - Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Full proposals due February 19, 2020
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms

Letter of Intent due January 17, 2020; Full Proposal due March 02, 2020
NIH - Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants

Letter of Intent due December 21, 2019; Application due January 21, 2020
NIH - Mechanisms Underlying the Contribution of Type 1 Diabetes Disease-associated Variants

Letter of Intent due February 26, 2020; Full Application due March 26, 2020
NSF - Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources

Full proposals due December 4, 2019, February 4, 2020, or August 4, 2020, depending on track and level
NSF - Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)

Full Proposals due December 3, 2019 or July 13, 2020
NIH - Data Harmonization, Curation and Secondary Analysis of Existing Clinical Datasets

Applications due March 17, 2020
NSF - Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB)

Full Proposals Accepted Anytime
ORAU - Research Opportunity in Molecular Biology

Application due November 29, 2019
NSF - Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)

Full Proposal due February 05, 2020
NSF - Biology Integration Institutes (BII)

Letter of Intent due December 20, 2019; Full Proposal due February 06, 2020
NSF - Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers

Full Proposals due November 26, 2019 by Invitation Only
USDA - Agricultural Microbiomes

Letter of Intent due March 10, 2020; Application due May 14, 2020
USDA - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Foundational and Applied Science Program

Letter of Intent due February 19, 2020; Application due April 23, 2020
NIH - Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-Income Settings

Letter of Intent due January 03, 2020; Application due February 03, 2020
NIH - NCMRR Early Career Research Award

Application due March 30, 2020
NSF - Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Full Proposal due November 20, 2019
NSF - Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI)

Full proposal window October 1 - November 15, 2019
NSF - Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs

Full proposal windows Small projects: October 31 - November 14, 2019 Medium projects: September 7 - September 14, 2020 Large projects: September 16 - September 23, 2020
NSF - CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)

Letter of Intent due November 12, 2019; Full proposals due January 9, 2020
PA Vegetable Growers Association

Full proposals due January 20, 2020
PA Vegetable Marketing and Research Program

Pre-proposals due November 5, 2019
NIH - Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and to Reduce Disparities in Rural Populations

Letter of Intent due November 13, 2019; Application due December 13, 2019
NIH - Organotypic Culture Models developed from Experimental Animals for Chemical Toxicity Screening

Letter of Intent due December 3, 2019; Application due January 3, 2020
NIH - Understanding Phage Biology to Support the Development of Bacteriophage Therapy

Application due March 18, 2020
NIH - Accelerating Discovery of Efficacious Pre-erythrocytic Stage Malaria Vaccines

Letter of Intent due December 17, 2019; Application due January 17, 2020
NIH - Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Systems Biology

Letter of Intent due January 16, 2020; Application due February 16, 2020
NIH - Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Basic Science

Letter of Intent due January 16, 2020; Application due February 16, 2020
NIH - Small Research Grant Program for the Next Generation of Clinical Researchers in AD/ADRD Research: Area of Focus Archiving and Leveraging Existing Data Sets for Analyses

Letter of Intent due January 16, 2020; Application due February 16, 2020
NSF - Division of Environmental Biology (Core Programs) (DEB)

Proposals accepted anytime
NSF - Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research

Proposals due November 5, 2019
Water Research Foundation - Precursors and Control of Halogenated Acetonitriles

Proposals due November 5, 2019
Water Research Foundation - Standardizing Methods with QA/QC Standards for Investigating the Occurrence and Removal of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria/Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARB/ARGs) in Surface Water, Wastewater, and Recycled Water

Proposals due November 5, 2019
Water Research Foundation - Geochemical Considerations for Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) Implementation in Potable Reuse

Proposals due November 5, 2019
Water Research Foundation - Assessing the State of Knowledge and Research Needs for Stormwater Harvesting

Proposals due November 5, 2019
Good Food Institute Research Grants

Phase I proposals due October 28, 2019
Morris Animal Foundation First Award Grants

Full proposals due November 13, 2019
USDA and NSF - National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce

Full proposals for institutes in one of the six specified themes due January 28, 2020; Planning proposals due January 30, 2020
NSF - Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations

Letter of intent due October 30, 2019; Full proposal due January 31, 2020
NSF - Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP)

Full proposals due October 1-31, 2019, or September 1-October 31, 2020 for certain disciplines
NSF – Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Full proposal due February 03, 2020 at 5pm
NSF – Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)

Full proposal due February 24, 2020 at 5 pm
NSF – Human Networks and Data Science – Infrastructure (HNDS-I)

Full proposals due February 24, 2020 at 5 pm
NSF - Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2)

Full proposals due October 21, 2019
Center for Produce Safety - 2020 Request for Preliminary Proposals

Preliminary proposals due November 12, 2019
NSF - Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2020 (EFRI - 2020)

Letter of intent due November 4, 2019; Preliminary proposals due December 2, 2019; Full proposals due March 26, 2020
NSF - EHR Core Research

Full proposals due October 3, 2019
NSF - Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Frontiers (SaTC Frontiers)

Full proposals due September 30, 2019
NSF - Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS)

Full proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program

Full Proposals due September 27, 2019
NSF – Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Full proposals due November 19, 2019
NSF – Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI)

Preliminary Proposal due August 13, 2019; Phase II Full Proposal (new and renewal) due October 16, 2019; Phase I Full Proposal (by invitation only) due February 19, 2020

NSF – Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)

Full proposals due August 13, 2019
NSF – Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)

Full proposal due August 14, 2019
NSF - Geoinformatics (GI)

Full Proposal due August 15, 2019
NSF – Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)

Full Proposals due August 19, 2019
NSF – Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)

Full Proposal target date August 19, 2019
NSF – Economics

Full Proposal target date August 19, 2019
NIH – Microbiome and Aging: Impact on Health and Disease (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Letter of Intent due September 30, 2019; Full proposal due October 30, 2019
NIH – Preclinical Screening for Natural Product Drug Interactions (Clinical Trial Not Allowed, R21)

Letter of Intent due October 1, 2019; Full proposal due November 1, 2019
USDA – Small Business Innovation Research Program – Phase I

Full proposals due October 23, 2019
USDA - Social Implications of Food and Agricultural Technologies

Full proposals due September 12, 2019
NSF - Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Application deadlines vary according to program: October 19 - 25, 2019
NSF – Science of Organizations (SoO)

Full proposals due February 3, 2020
NSF – Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS)

Full proposals due September 5, 2019
NSF - Geography and Spatial Sciences Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Full proposals accepted anytime
NSF – Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)

Preliminary proposals due December 4, 2019; Full proposals due June 15, 2020
NSF – Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)

Full proposal target date September 9, 2019 and February 10, 2020
NSF – Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIP - DDRIG)

Full proposal target date September 9, 2019 and February 10, 2020
NSF - Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)

Full proposal window for Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems: September 1 - 15, 2019; Full proposal window for Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: October 1 - 31, 2019
NSF - Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)

Full proposals due September 11, 2019
NSF - International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)

Full proposals due September 10, 2019, for Track I; September 17, 2019, for Track II; September 24, 2019, for Track III
USDA - Specialty Crop Research Initiative

Full proposals due October 15, 2019
NSF - Mathematical Biology

Full proposal window August 20 - September 5, 2019
NSF - Research Experiences fo Undergraduates (REU)

Full proposals due August 28, 2019
USDA - Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools (FACT)

Full proposals due July 16, 2020
USDA - Critical Agricultural Research and Extension (CARE)

Full proposal due April 23, 2020
USDA - Rural Economic Development

Full proposals due April 16, 2020
USDA - Social Implications of Food and Agricultural Technologies

Full proposals due September 12, 2019
USDA - Sustainable Agroecosystems: Health, Functions, Processes and Management

Full proposals due August 8, 2019
USDA - Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems

Full proposals due April 9, 2020
USDA - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Full proposal due May 14, 2020
USAID - Women's Global Development and Prosperity WomenConnect Challenge

Full proposals due August 6, 2019
NSF - GeoPRISMS Program

Full Proposal target date August 16, 2019
NSF - Sociology

Full Proposal target date August 15, 2019
NSF - Political Science

Full proposal target date August 15, 2019
NSF - Environmental Engineering

Full Proposal window August 16, 2018 – August 15, 2019
NSF - Catalysis

Full Proposal window August 16, 2018 – August 15, 2019
NSF - Biophotonics

Full proposal window August 16, 2018 – August 15, 2019
NSF - Growing Convergence Research (GCR)

Full proposals due May 8, 2019; February 3, 2020
NSF - Law & Social Sciences (LSS)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 1, 2019
NSF - Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)

Letter of Intent target date: August 6, 2019; Full Proposals due September 6, 2019
NSF - Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF)

Full Proposal Deadline is March 6, 2019
Data Incubator - Data Science Fellowship

Deadline: July 15, 2019
USAID Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program

Application due November 1, 2019
NSF & USDA - Plant Biotic Interactions Program

Full Proposal due September 30, 2019
Anderson Foundation - NextGen 2019 Grant

Proposals due July 12, 2019
NSF - CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS)

Full Proposal Due: July 31, 2019
NSF - EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program Track-1: (RII Track-1)

Full Proposal Due: July 30, 2019
NSF - Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellows (QCIS-FF)

Preliminary Proposal deadline July 1, 2019; full proposals window September 17 - September 27, 2019
NSF - Critical-Zone Collaborative Network

Full proposals due December 2, 2019
NSF - Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)

Full proposals due August 28, 2019
NSF - Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Amazon (FAI)

Full proposals due June 25, 2019
Spencer Foundation - Small Research Grants Program

Full proposals due July 1, 2019
Spencer Foundation - Large Research Grants on Education Program

Intent to apply deadline is June 20; full proposals due July 17
Penn State, Monash University joint collaboration announces call for proposals

Proposals on the topic of the intersection of health and the environment are due by June 15, 2019
USDA - Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program

Full proposals due June 4, 2019
USDA - Renewable Resources Extension Act-National Focus Fund Projects (RREA-NFF)

Full proposals due June 21, 2019
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell

Full proposals due May 13, 2019
NSF - A Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SCISIPBIO)

Full proposals due May 8, 2019; September 9, 2019; February 10, 2020
NIH - Computational Models of Immunity

LOI due May 10, 2019; Full proposal due June 10, 2019
USDA - Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program (MSP)

Proposals due May 24, 2019
USDA - Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) - Phase I

Small businesses and small proprietorships that are in business for profit are eligible to submit applications to this program. Each organization submitting a proposal must qualify as a small business concern for research or research and development purposes.
NSF - Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)

Deadline for full proposals is specific to the division. See the NSF solicitation for details.
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics

Full proposal deadline is February 1, 2019
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell

Preliminary proposal due December 28, 2018 Full proposal due May 13, 2019
NSF - Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS)

Full Proposal due January 5, 2019
SHAP Research Call for Proposals

In order to review and complete all SHAP submissions our deadline date for completion of these submissions is Tuesday, December 18th.
NSF - Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Full proposal deadline November 20, 2018
NSF - Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Full proposal due November 2, 2018
NSF - Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP)

Full proposal due November 1, 2018
NSF - Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Full Proposal Due October 22, 2018: Life Sciences, Geosciences October 23, 2018: Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Engineering, Materials Research October 25, 2018: Psychology, Social Sciences, STEM Education and Learning October 26, 2018: Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy
NSF - Sociology Program: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Proposals due October 15, 2019
NSF - Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)

Proposals accepted at anytime.
NSF - CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI)

Down-select deadline for the university: October 3, 2018

NSF - Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (IIBR)

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB)

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Cyberinfrastructure for Biological Research (CIBR)

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Instrument Capacity for Biological Research (ICBR)

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)

The due date for any proposal is the due date for submission to that program in that division; direct access to those Program Descriptions are available through the URL listed below.

NSF/NIFA - Plant Biotic Interactions

Proposals accepted anytime.
NSF - Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)

Proposals accepted anytime.
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

2) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The GRFP provides three years of support for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education. NSF especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, persons with disabilities, veterans, and undergraduate seniors to apply.
NSF-BSF program in Marine Geology and Geophysics

Open to receive applications anytime throughout the year
NSF-BSF program in Cyber Security

Is open to receive applications anytime throughout the year.
NSF-BSF programs in Earth Sciences

Open to receive applications anytime throughout the year.
NSF-BSF program in Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems

Open to receive applications anytime throughout the year.
NSF-BSF programs in Ceramics and Condensed Matter and Materials Theory in the Materials division

Open to receive applications anytime throughout the year.
NSF-BSF programs in Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

Open to receive applications anytime throughout the year
NSF - Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Frameworks (I-DIRSE-FW)

Full proposals due May 7, 2019
USDA - Supplemental and Alternative Crops (SACC)

Full proposals due May 31, 2019
USDA - Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program (RHSE)

Full proposals due June 10, 2019
USDA - New Technologies for Ag Extension (NTAE)

Full proposals due June 6, 2019
USDA - Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP)

Full proposals due May 29, 2019
USDA - Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP)

Full proposals due May 16, 2019
USDA - AFRI Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS)

Letter of intent due June 4, 2019; Full proposals due September 26, 2019
USDA - Special Research Grants Program Aquaculture Research

Full proposals due May 28, 2019
USDA - Organic Transitions (ORG)

Full proposals due May 16, 2019 (FY 2019); February 27, 2020 (FY 2020)
USDA - Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program

Proposals due May 27, 2019
USDA - NE SARE Graduate Student Grant

Letter of intent due April 10, 2019
USDA - Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative

Proposals due May 2, 2019.
USDA - Minor Crop Pest Management Program Interregional Research Project #4 (IR-4)

Proposals due April 3, 2019
NSF - Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI)

Full proposal due April 8, 2019 or November 1, 2019
NSF - Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML)

Full proposals due June 6, 2019
NSF - Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)

Letter of Intent due August 6, 2019; Full proposal due September 6, 2019
NSF - Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I (STTR)

Submission windows: March 4 - June 13, 2019; June 14 - December 12, 2019
NSF - Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I (SBIR)

Submission windows: March 4 - June 13, 2019; June 14 - December 12, 2019
NSF - Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science

Full proposals due April 2, 2019
USDA - Methyl Bromide Transition Program

Proposals due April 15, 2019
NSF - Geoinformatics (GI)

Full proposal due August 15, 2019
NSF - Growing Convergence Research (GCR)

Full proposals due May 8, 2019 and February 3, 2020
NSF - Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Phase I

Letter of Intent due March 26, 2019; Full proposal window April 24 - May 8, 2019
NSF - ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE)

Adaptation and Partnership: Letter of Intent due May 15, 2019; Full proposals due May 22, 2019 || Institutional Transformation: Preliminary proposal due October 1, 2019; Full Proposal due March 2, 2020 || Catalyst: Full proposals due June 3, 2019
USDA - Secondary Education, Two-Year Postsecondary Education, and Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom Challenge Grants Program (SPECA)

Proposals due by April 16, 2019
NSF & USDA - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Competitive Grants Program

Full proposals for Small and Medium window deadline April 1 - April 12, 2019; Full proposals for Frontier window deadline September 12 - September 26, 2019
NSF & USDA - Signals in the Soil (SitS)

Full proposal due May 15, 2019
DOJ and NIJ - Graduate Research Fellowship in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Proposals due April 8, 2019
NSF - Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (RIDIR)

Full proposal due February 25, 2019
NSF - Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIP-DDRIG)

Full proposal due February 11, 2019 or September 9, 2019
NSF - Science, Technology, and Society (STS)

Full proposal due August 5, 2019
NSF - Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)

Full proposal due February 4, 2019
NSF - Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)

Full proposal (window) due January 28 - February 4, 2019
NSF - National Robotics Initiative 2.0: Ubiquitous Collaborative Robots (NRI-2.0)

Full proposal due February 19, 2019
NSF - Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)

Full proposal due February 12, 2019
NSF - Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)

Full proposal due February 25, 2019
NSF - Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC)

Full proposal (window) due January 15 - February 3, 2020
NSF - Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)

Full proposal due January 31, 2019 or August 29, 2019
NSF-BSF program in Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)

Deadline for application by the U.S. partner is expected to be approximately on November 15, 2018 and by the Israeli partner to the BSF about a week later.
The Center for Rural Pennsylvania 2019 Request for Proposals

Deadline for submission of Letters of Intent is May 21, 2018 --- Deadline for full proposal submissions is August 27, 2018
NSF - Law & Social Sciences (LSS)

Full proposal (target) due January 29, 2019 for Dissertation Research, Standard and Collaborative Research; August 1, 2019 for Standard Collaborative Research
NSF - Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)

Full proposal due February 6, 2019
NSF - Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Data Science Corps (DSC)

Full proposal (window) due January 28 - February 4, 2019
NSF - Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics

Full proposal due February 1, 2019
NSF - Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs (I-DIRSE-IL)

Preliminary proposal due January 28, 2019; Full proposal due June 28, 2019
NSF - Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES)

Full proposal (target) due February 20, 2019
NSF - EarthCube

Full proposal deadline: February 11, 2019
NSF - Earth Sciences: Laboratory Technician Support (EAR/LTS)

Full Proposal due February 14, 2019
NSF - Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1)

Preliminary Proposal due February 19, 2019 Full Proposal (by invitation only) due May 20, 2019
NSF - CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems

Letter of Intent due September 17, 2019; Full Proposal due February 14, 2019 or November 15, 2019

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