Featured Opportunities

April 23, 2025

• The Department of State, Fulbright US Scholars program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world.College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. This week’s Funding Connection contains 28 overseas opportunity announcements for this program including such countries as Colombia, the European Union, Ethiopia, Algeria, Bahrain, Argentina, Egypt, Italy, Botswana, Estonia, Austria, and many others. Most of the announcements are looking for faculty in any discipline. All of the opportunities are listed under the “International/Multicultural” category of the Funding Connection and each appears under the discipline category or categories that is sought by the opportunity.
• The Department of Defense, US Army Futures Command, Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), through its Broad Agency Announcement for Fundamental AI Research, is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research. Research topics of interest include: Autonomous Platform, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms, AI/ML Decision Support, Human-AI Integration, Synthetic Environments, Distributed AI, Underpinning Methodologies, and Special Topics.
• The purpose of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models program is to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models. Projects supported under this activity should be collaborative in nature and depend on the coordinated interaction of two or more PIs/co-PIs, with integrated participation from both the mathematical sciences and the social, behavioral, or economic sciences. Additional participants from other disciplines, especially the biological sciences, are also welcome. Each project should focus on a significant and well-delineated research challenge that integrates behavioral and social processes into mathematical epidemiological models.
• NSF is committed to securing the nation's research enterprise as part of its core mission. The Research on Research Security (RoRS) program will advance the understanding of the full scope, potential, challenges, and nature of the research on research security field through scholarly evidence. Collectively, the research that RoRS funds will foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and proposers should address how they will leverage the range of expertise, theories, and methods of the team to engage in evidence-based research on research security. Proposers are encouraged to identify collaborators across a wide range of sectors, and to consider projects in collaboration with international partners that share U.S. concerns with research security, when appropriate.
• NSF’s Mind, Machine, and Motor Nexus (M3X) program supports fundamental research that enables intelligent engineered systems and humans to engage in bidirectional interaction in a physics-based environment, to enhance and ensure safety, productivity, and well-being. For the purpose of this program an intelligent engineered system is a human-designed system — physical, virtual, or a combination of both — that interacts with its environment to achieve specific goals. These systems collect data, analyze it to make informed decisions, and take actions that enhance safety, efficiency, and well-being. They may operate autonomously or collaboratively with humans, adapting their actions based on the data they collect. A key requirement for the M3X program is that these systems must function within a physics-based environment, whether physical or virtual, where interactions exhibit recognizable physical behaviors, such as those associated with gravity, friction, force, and inertia. Proposals submitted to the M3X program must clearly articulate how the proposed work advances knowledge of bidirectional interactions between humans and intelligent engineered systems. Examples include robots assisting in disaster response, smart environments that learn user preferences, and virtual reality-based rehabilitation technologies that simulate plausible physics.
• Lepino Foods is in search of transformative technologies that can elevate the value of lactose (including lactose, whey permeate, and de-lactose permeate/mother liquor) beyond its current commodity status. This could include processes that convert lactose into high-demand compounds, the development of high-value products incorporating lactose or its derivatives, and the creation of novel derivatives with scalable production methods and strong market potential. They are also exploring opportunities where lactose or its derivatives can serve as viable replacements for existing high-demand ingredients or compounds, as well as new market applications that expand the commercial potential of lactose-based solutions. By pushing the boundaries of what is possible, we aim to revolutionize the use of lactose and/or its derivatives, creating innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of various industries.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Trailblazer Award (R21) is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data. A distinct feature for this NOFO is that no preliminary data are required, expected, or encouraged. However, if available, minimal preliminary data are allowed. Preliminary data are defined as material which the applicant has independently produced and not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal. All preliminary data should be clearly marked and limited to one-half page, which may include one figure.
• The Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI invites community practitioners, early career scholars, and advanced graduate students who engage broadly with the humanities to apply to participate in a Global Humanities Institute supported by the CHCI in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. In keeping with academic tradition in Latin America, this institute will be organized as a diplomado and thus will provide participants with a certificate of professional development.This institute addresses the urgent challenges faced by Indigenous communities in the wake of mega-development projects and mass tourism, which often lead to the neglect of local needs, land dispossession, displacement, and the destruction of ecosystems. These large-scale interventions frequently prioritize economic gains over cultural and environmental sustainability, leaving Indigenous groups to navigate the cascading social, economic, and ecological consequences. Through a global lens, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how Indigenous communities creatively respond to these pressures, asserting their rights, protecting their cultural heritage, and developing innovative strategies for resilience.