| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of August 17, 2026 | Click here to share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Funding Landscape
Sony is inviting Focused Research Award proposals.
This program supports focused exploration of promising research areas and provides up to $150,000 in funding, with the possibility of renewal for subsequent years. Areas of interest include generative and multimodal AI, creative AI and digital content, knowledge representation and reasoning, human-AI interaction, AI for games and entertainment, trustworthy AI and content provenance, and cloud-based creative technologies. Please see the full list of topics linked above. Proposals are due September 15, 2026.
National Science Foundation (NSF) announces $1.5B for foundational research opportunities.
The NSF has announced 12 funding opportunities representing $1.5 billion in support for foundational research across science and engineering. These opportunities include both long-term awards for ambitious, transformative research and shorter-term grants designed to rapidly test promising ideas. Together, they support NSF’s mission to advance scientific breakthroughs, open new frontiers of knowledge, strengthen U.S. competitiveness and national security, and improve quality of life.
Funding Opportunities:
| | | New Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The aim of DEPSCoR – Capacity Building program is to improve the research capabilities at institutions of higher education (IHEs) in eligible States/Territories to perform competitive basic research in science and engineering that is relevant to the DoD mission and reflect national security priorities. The Capacity Building objectives are to jumpstart capability development in the state or territory through increased human, technical, and management resources and to achieve excellence in a DoD-relevant basic research area through funding to support equipment, education, research, and other relevant activities.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Sponsor Whitepaper Deadline: Monday, October 12, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Monday, April 5, 2027
| | | First-Come, First-Served Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics is a career development award to enable early-career faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research. The program is designed to support projects that address a significant bioethics problem and extend beyond current work in bioethics, while fostering a community of Scholars and Alums committed to advancing the field.
Eligibility: Early Career Faculty
Limitation: one application per institution
Sponsor LOI Deadline: Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Monday, January 4, 2027
Note: The internal deadline has passed, and the number of applications received is below our institutional limit. Applicants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact RDO to apply.
| Description: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites applications for the Seed Instrumentation Support (SIS) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). This aims to build new research capacity and develop a sustainable research program by supporting the purchase of a single commercially available biomedical research instrument currently unavailable in the institution. Instruments funded through this program must be shared among the users to create new research opportunities, enable reproducible data generation, encourage collaborative research and training, and strengthen long-term research capabilities.
Limitation: one application per institution
Sponsor Application Deadline: Friday, September 25, 2026
Note: The internal deadline has passed, and the number of applications received is below our institutional limit. Applicants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact RDO to apply.
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