Featured Opportunities

March 26, 2025

• The Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge supports USDA’s new comprehensive strategy to HPAI, protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices as described in the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s February 26, 2025, press release, USDA Invests Up To $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices. Through this grand challenge, APHIS will provide funds to support high-value and high-impact projects that will explore vaccines, therapeutics, research and other strategies to combat highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry. Additional details about the program and this funding opportunity, including additional information for applicants, are available on the USDA APHIS HPAI Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge Priority topics include: 1) Develop novel vaccines to protect poultry from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that are safe, potent, and efficacious across multiple avian species and against current circulating clades; 2) Develop novel therapeutics to address HPAI in poultry, including preventing, controlling, or eliminating HPAI virus, characterizing genomic targets for disease resistance, and supporting poultry health; and 3) Conduct research to further understand avian influenza in poultry and to improve response strategies.
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Conference and Workshop Grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research. Conferences that they support are public events directed at large audiences of anthropologists. They prioritize scholarly gatherings that bring together members of large, international anthropological organizations. Workshops that they support are closed meetings focused on pressing topics in anthropology. Small groups of scholars gather for several days to work intensively on particular themes. Their aim is to help organizers make these conferences and workshops more inclusive and accessible by covering costs for scholars who might not otherwise be able to attend.
• Oxford University, Bodleian Library’s Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections are awarded to promote research based on archival, manuscript and printed books collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Researchers external to the University of Oxford are invited to pursue their own research projects requiring use of these collections. Visiting Fellows may be invited during their visits to present their work in progress formally or informally within the University or in the Bodleian Libraries and should consider publication of their findings in the Bodleian Library Record. Visits of one month or more will be supported.
• The National Geographic Society’s World Freshwater Initiative seeks to illuminate the status of freshwater supplies and demands globally by highlighting areas of water shortage, assessing human use of water on local and regional ecosystems and exploring the impact of climate change on water provinces around the world. In partnership with the Conrad Hilton Foundation’s Safe Water Initiative, The National Geographic Society seeks submissions from storytellers interested in creating and disseminating content that raises public awareness and engagement of important issues around the sustainable use of freshwater resources. RfP will support accomplished and talented storytellers from across the world. A variety of content formats, including, but not limited to, Photography, Film and Video, Mapmaking, Data Visualization, Written Word, Spoken Word, etc. will be considered. Projects that dig deeper into the challenges facing specific communities such as last mile households, low-income households, women and girls, and children face in achieving equitable access to freshwater and how these issues are worsening as freshwater scarcity increases are encouraged. Applications are also encouraged for projects that highlight specific solutions to these challenges, and elevate the voices of individuals, organizations and communities at the forefront. Applicants should show a record of successful media projects and must submit a portfolio as part of their application packet.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (DHAG) program supports work that is innovative, experimental, and contributes to the critical infrastructure that underpins scholarly research, teaching, and public programming in the humanities. In addition to the program’s emphasis on experimentation and innovation, DHAG values extensibility, reuse, replicability, and accessibility. If your project is funded, you must analyze your workflow and publish your results in a white paper that NEH will share widely. This body of work contributes to the digital humanities’ research base. Projects primarily using established tools and methods or seeking to create digital collections are not competitive in this grant program since NEH has other programs that can support digital projects and platforms.
• The Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We anticipate awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers -- $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Within each of our funding tiers, we evaluate projects within tier and strongly encourage applicants to submit for funding that best fits their project rather than applying for the highest amount. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.
• The goal of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)Environmental Sustainability program is to promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. Research efforts supported by the program typically consider long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. The program supports engineering research that seeks to balance society's need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. There are five general research areas: circular bioeconomy engineering, industrial ecology, green engineering, ecological engineering, and earth systems engineering.
• The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Catalyze: Product Definition for Small Molecules, Biologics and Combination Products—Preliminary Product/Lead Series Identification and Combination Product Prototype (R33) will provide the early stage translational support needed to identify a lead compound series toward development of potential therapeutic agents to treat heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) diseases and disorders. This NOFO is part of a suite of Catalyze innovation grants to advance projects to the point where they can meet the entry criteria for the NHLBI Catalyze Preclinical program or attract independent development support from other federal or private partners for preclinical optimization and development of therapeutic agents.
• NSF’s Applied Mathematics program supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications. Projects that additionally provide opportunities for rigorous mathematical training of junior applied mathematicians through their involvement in research are encouraged. The proposals considered by the Applied Mathematics program may range from single investigator to interdisciplinary team projects.
• The purpose of HHS, NIH’s Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21) is to support studies that will identify, develop, and/or test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, sustainability, scale-up, and spread of evidence-based interventions, practices, programs, tools, treatments, guidelines, and policies (herein referred to collectively as evidence-based interventions). Studies that promote equitable dissemination and implementation of evidence-based interventions among underrepresented communities are encouraged. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (de-implement) the use of practices that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged. Applications that focus on re-implementation of evidence-based health services that may be disrupted amidst disasters (e.g., pandemics, climate change) remain relevant.
• The purpose of HHS, NIH’s Co-infection and Cancer (R21) is to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection and cancer to shed light on presently unestablished pathways in carcinogenesis that may inform prevention and treatment strategies for infection-related cancers. Co-infection is defined as the occurrence of infections by two or more infectious (pathogenic or non-pathogenic) agents – either concurrently or sequentially – and includes both acute and chronic infections by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and/or other microorganisms. Preference will be given to investigations of co-infections with known oncogenic agents (excluding human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]) and of co-infections that engender novel opportunities for prevention and treatment.
• The goal of HHS’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences’ (NIGMS) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Basic Biomedical Sciences Research Training Program (R21) is to develop a pool of well-trained scientists available to address the nation’s biomedical research agenda. Specifically, this funding announcement provides support to eligible, domestic organizations to develop and implement effective, evidence-informed approaches to biomedical graduate training and mentoring that will keep pace with the rapid evolution of the biomedical research enterprise. NIGMS expects that the proposed research training programs will incorporate didactic, research, and career development elements to prepare trainees for careers that will have a significant impact on the health-related research needs of the nation.
• The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action. It funds Research Projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S. It prioritizes projects that address racism, xenophobia, classism, gender bias, exploitation, or the violation of human rights and freedoms. It also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions. The Foundation supports research that focuses on improving services and systems and increasing positive social and physical conditions through: Policy development, Placement and shaping of the policy agenda, Policy adoption or implementation, Policy blocking, Increasing advocacy capacity and political influence, Shaping public sentiment, and Addressing challenges related to language and literacy.
• NSF’s Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet Program (CHIRRP) invites projects focusing on innovative and transformative research that advances Earth system hazard knowledge and risk mitigation in partnership with affected communities. Hazards compounded by changing climates, rising populations, expanding demands for resources, aging infrastructure, and increasing reliance on technology are putting our economy, well-being, and national security at risk. Researchers, academics, and community leaders will work together to develop community-driven research questions and actionable, science-based solutions that increase community resilience now and in the future. CHIRRP projects are expected to advance understanding, forecasting and/or prediction of future Earth system hazards and risks, engage communities in development of research questions and approaches, and produce actionable, science-based solution pathways for adaptation methodologies, products, and services. CHIRRP projects may evaluate a single or system of cascading hazards, impacts, and risks at a local, regional, or global scale through the lens of transformative earth system science research. Competitive projects will engage community partners at all stages of a project from development to implementation.