Featured Opportunities

June 24, 2026

• The Department of Agriculture, NIFA’s Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Competitive Grants (FBMB) program aims to strongly support innovative extension approaches and collaborative efforts to maintain and expand the publicly available national farm financial management database (FINBIN). Such efforts are needed to meet the challenges facing the Nation's agriculture and food systems. Farmers, farm managers, and individuals involved in production agriculture must be educated and prepared to work effectively across disciplines to solve agricultural and educational challenges. Meeting these challenges will require projects that are timely, strategic, creative, and multidisciplinary. The FBMB program supports all farmers, ranchers, and producers to develop farm management knowledge and skills that are consistent with the agriculture and food systems priorities of the USDA. Extension projects supported by the FBMB program, to the extent possible, shall be coordinated and delivered in cooperation with similar services or assistance by other Federal agencies or programs supporting improved farm management. Priority may be given to grants that demonstrate an ability to work directly with agricultural producers, collaborate with farm management associations and financial management education programs, address the farm management needs of a variety of crops and regions of the United States, and contribute data to support FINBIN.
• The Department of Agriculture, NIFA requests applications for the Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) for FY 2026 to develop and implement food safety training, education, Extension, outreach, and technical assistance projects that will help improve public health by increasing the understanding and adoption of established food safety standards, guidance, and protocols. Community Outreach Projects will support the development of new food safety education and outreach programs in local communities and expand upon existing food safety education and outreach programs. Projects will focus on building the capacity of local groups to identify specific needs within their communities and to implement customized food safety education and outreach programs to meet those specific needs. Community outreach project funds can be used to develop and/or expand Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) training in communities to ensure they are consistent with new FSMA rules and meet the needs of expanded audiences. Community Outreach Projects also support the growth and expansion of existing food safety education and outreach programs currently offered in local communities. In addition, these projects will enable existing programs to reach a broader target audience, provide technical assistance, and/or expand to new audiences. New audiences may include those from a variety of agricultural production and processing systems.
• The Department of Agriculture, NIFA requests applications for the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP) for FY 2026 to increase knowledge of agriculture and improve the nutritional health of children. FASLP projects are intended for eligible applicants to expand previous farm-to-school initiatives and other food and agriculture experiential learning initiatives, such as training and technical assistance, evaluation activities, or curriculum development; or incorporate farm-to-school strategies in trainings and professional opportunities, along with working closely with agricultural producers in the local and regional areas of primary and secondary schools. Applicants are also encouraged to seek and create partnerships with public or private, nonprofit or for-profit entities, including links with academic institutions and/or other appropriate professionals, community-based organizations, school districts, and local and State government entities. FASLP is also focused on the development of leadership skills, knowledge, and qualities are necessary to prepare students for food and agriculture and related careers in the private sector, government, and academia. Specific activities may include: 1) Developing practical applications to increase understanding of leadership roles, including critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills; ethics and professionalism; and working in teams; 2) Connecting the academic classroom experiences with daily leadership roles and organizational activities; 3) Providing opportunities for mentoring and shadowing; and 4) Organizing leadership academies, workshops, trainings, etc.
• The Medieval Colloquium of the Department of English at Harvard University invites applications for the Morton W. Bloomfield Visiting Fellowship, a four-week residential fellowship that can be held at any time during the academic year (September through May). Thanks to the generosity of the Morton W. Bloomfield Fund, established in the memory of one of Harvard’s most distinguished medievalists, we are able to provide up to $4,000 toward travel, accommodation, and living costs. The committee particularly invites scholars early in their postdoctoral career (i.e., post-PhD) to apply. The Bloomfield Fellow has access to Harvard’s libraries and other resources. In the past, some fellows with sabbatical leaves have elected to extend their residency beyond four weeks. Fellows are expected to attend the Medieval Colloquium and to give a paper on the subject of their research. They are also asked to meet with our graduate students, and they are welcome to attend other events at Harvard. We select fellows on the basis of the importance of their research and its interest to our intellectual community.
• In coordination with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Department of State (State), the Department of Education (ED) is soliciting applications in support of the administration of the Centers Aligned with Areas for National Need This program provides grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or consortia of IHEs to address one or more of the following areas of national need by teaching languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security and economic prosperity, such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Arabic, Swahili, Hausa, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Farsi, Bahasa, Thai, and other languages; providing instruction in fields needed to provide understanding of areas, regions, or countries in which the language is used; supporting research and training in international studies and the international and foreign language aspects of professional and other fields of study; and advancing the national security interests of the United States by providing instruction on critical regions such as Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
• In coordination with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Department of State (State), the Department of Education (ED) is soliciting applications in support of the administration of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange (MECE) The purpose of the program is to promote, improve, and develop the study of modern foreign language training and area studies in U.S. schools, colleges, and universities by supporting visits and study in foreign countries by teachers and prospective teachers. The program provides opportunities for teachers and prospective teachers to improve their skill in languages, their knowledge of the culture of the people of other countries, and finances visits by teachers from those other countries to the United States for the purpose of participating in foreign language training and area studies in U.S. schools, colleges, and universities.
• The Department of Defense, DARPA, through its Multi Modal Materials analysis (MMoMA) BAA, is soliciting innovative solutions in the technical area of materials analysis, including surface and bulk analysis of molecular structure, elemental composition, trace elements and isotope ratios in samples, to be conducted under ambient conditions, without the need for special sample preparation. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. The MMoMA vision is to shift from the state-of-the-art (SOA) serial analysis approach to a new parallel materials analysis paradigm. The program’s goal is to maximize information extraction from a sample by developing analytical capabilities that use a single configurable excitation source to generate and detect multiple surface and bulk material signatures in parallel under ambient conditions. Multimodal signature detection combined with data fusion methods will enable adaptive feedback for signature optimization during active scanning. In-situ data fusion will further enable the correlation identification in multimodal signatures, ultimately resulting in faster and better materials identification when compared to sequential analysis.
• Prototyping capabilities are essential in R&D for developing Minimal Viable Prototypes (MVPs), enabling hypothesis testing, consumer feedback, and informing subsequent development cycles. Although Proctor & Gamble has advanced modeling tools to create digital prototypes, they currently lack a systematic approach to rapidly and effectively translate these insights into physical prototypes. Instead, their MVPs rely on traditional handmaking and pilot manufacturing processes that are costly, time-consuming, and often subject to variability due to their manual nature. Furthermore, these existing prototyping techniques do not fully utilize the modeling insights at their disposal. Through their Halo market request—Prototyping of Porous Structures form Digital Models, they are looking to explore and advance enabling technologies that can use the output of our modeling work as direct input for prototyping systems, turning digital insights into minimum viable prototypes for laboratory and consumer testing. Their vision is to digitally design absorbent articles and rapidly prototype them to test tactile (mechanical), visual (optical), and fluid handling (surface energy) performance. This requires creating porous materials (mainly non-wovens) that bend, stretch, or compress without breaking, while absorbing, distributing, or repelling fluids. They handle multiple scales: prototypes at the centimeter scale (single sheets 50–100 cm², <1 cm thick; stacked layers 50–100 cm², 1–2 cm thick; full products ~50x15 cm, 1 cm thick with complex layers and elastics), with fiber details at the micrometer scale (fiber diameters 1–30+ µm, pore sizes 50–500 µm). Fibers are curly, twisted, with mostly round cross-sections, sometimes trilobal or elliptical.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Cutting-Edge Basic Research Award (CEBRA) is designed to foster highly innovative or conceptually creative research related to the etiology, pathophysiology, prevention, or treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). It supports high-risk and potentially high-impact research that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current portfolio that has the potential to transform SUD research. The proposed research should: 1. develop, and/or adapt, revolutionary techniques or methods for addiction research or that show promising future applicability to SUD research; and /or 2. test an innovative and significant hypothesis for which there are scant precedent or preliminary data and which, if confirmed, would transform current thinking.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (R21) encourages joint applications for the Global Infectious Disease (GID) Research Training programs from low- and middle-income country (LMIC) and U.S. institutions. The application should propose a collaborative training program that will strengthen the capacity of an LMIC institution to conduct infectious disease research (not including HIV/AIDS). FIC will support research training programs that focus on 1) major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious diseases, 2) neglected tropical diseases, 3) infections that frequently occur as co-infections in HIV infected individuals or 4) infections or microbiomes associated with non-communicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs. Advanced scientific training related to prevention, treatment or public health approaches to any technical area of basic, epidemiological, clinical, behavioral or social science health research may be supported. Research training programs should incorporate didactic, mentored research and professional development skills components to prepare individuals for sustainable careers that will have significant impact on the priority health research needs of LMICs.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases Innovation (GREGoRi) initiative seeks to accelerate a paradigm shift in rare disease diagnosis by reimagining the tools, molecular technologies and analytical approaches used to identify the causal gene(s) and/or variant(s) underlying rare genetic disorders. GREGoRi Technology Innovation Projects are intended to stimulate the development and testing of highly innovative experimental or computational approaches for rare disease diagnosis, that have the potential to make transformative improvements to the current state of the art. These projects will perform proof-of-concept studies that leverage new and emerging experimental technologies, or make innovative use or greatly extend the capabilities of existing technologies, to advance the stated goals of the GREGoRi program. A major goal for the Technology Innovation Projects is to move beyond the current state-of-the-art approach for diagnosing rare genetic disorders, which is primarily based on DNA sequencing (i.e., WES and WGS) as initial steps in variant or gene identification. These approaches should be applicable to a broad range of rare genetic disorders, although proof-of-concept studies may be carried out in a limited number of exemplar phenotypes.
• The Department of Defense, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships provide early career researchers the opportunity to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the mission of ARL. Candidates must display extraordinary ability in scientific research, show clear promise of becoming outstanding leaders, and are expected to have already successfully tackled a major scientific or engineering problem during their thesis work or to have provided a new approach or insight, evidenced by a recognized impact in their field. For more than 50 years, the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and its forerunner organizations - including the Army Ballistics Research Laboratory that played a major role during WWII - have conducted the great majority of the Army's basic science programs. Among their many successes, ARL civilian employees helped develop the proximity fuze, worked to develop ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first operational, general purpose, electronic digital computer), grew some of the first synthetic large quartz crystals, and developed the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V. Currently, ARL scientists and engineers are pioneering research in such areas as neuroscience, energetic materials and propulsion, electronics technologies, network sciences, quantum information science, virtual interfaces, and synthetic environments and autonomous systems. They are leaders in modeling and simulation and have high performance computing resources on-site. They expand into emerging frontier areas, such as they did, for example, over the past decade in quantum information and quantum networks.