| Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of October 27, 2025 | Click here to share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | | New Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: EPSCoR Research Fellows directly aligns with the NSF EPSCoR strategic goal of establishing sustainable Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professional development pathways that advance workforce development and effects engagement in STEM at national and global levels. EPSCoR Research Fellows provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of investigators and further develop their individual research potential through collaborations with investigators from the nation's premier private, governmental, or academic research institutions and/or centers. The fellowship provides opportunities to establish strong collaborations through extended or periodic collaborative visits to a selected host site.
Eligibility: Early or Mid-Career Faculty
Limitation: four applications per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Note: UI is eligible to submit the NSF sub-track only
| | | Reminder Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: E-CORE supports jurisdictions in building significant and sustainable research capacity and research infrastructure for targeted areas of focus, hereinafter referred to as “cores,” that underlie a jurisdiction's research ecosystem. Based on the evidence-based and self-identified needs of a jurisdiction, the types of cores supported by E-CORE may include (but are not limited to) development, enhancement, and/or ensuring the sustainability of: research administration; research facilities and infrastructure (including cyberinfrastructure); STEM education (K-12) pathways; higher education pathways; early career investigator pathways; broadening participation; workforce development; national and global partnerships; community engagement and outreach; technology transfer; economic development; and use-inspired research pathways.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, July 21, 2026
| Description: E-RISE supports hypothesis-driven or problem-driven research and fosters the development of research teams and products in a scientific topical area that aligns with a jurisdiction’s research ecosystem and priorities, as detailed in the jurisdiction’s Science and Technology (S&T) Plan or drawn from other jurisdiction plans, reports, or publications prepared by appropriate authorities or bodies. E-RISE invites innovative proposals within the chosen research area that will lead to development and implementation of sustainable broad networks of individuals, institutions, and organizations, and that will transform the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research capacity and competitiveness in a jurisdiction. E-RISE is particularly interested in proposals that justify exploring emerging or interdisciplinary research areas with high potential impact.
Limitation: one application per institution
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 | | | |
