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External Funding Opportunities

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Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF)
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For: Faculty, Climate Science

Pre-proposal due. This program supports research projects related to sustainable solid waste management practices. EREF's long-term strategic plan is to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increases sustainable solid waste management practices.

International Water Summit
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For: Faculty, Climate Science

Nominations. The Zuckerberg Water Prize offers a biannual award of $60,000 to acknowledge the outstanding achievements and global impact of an individual or organization in the broader field of water.

Department of Energy
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For: Faculty

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, is announcing that $25 million dollar amount is available to support the advancement of Plant Genomics to understand the plant gene function(s).

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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For: Faculty, Broadening Participation, BioHealth

Letter of Intent. This program invites applications from individuals who are outstanding early- to mid-career biomedical researchers who through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in their scientific communities.

National Science Foundation
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For: Faculty, AI, Machine Learning

Letter of intent. The goal of MFS-SPEED is to support fundamental research enabling the accelerated discovery and ultimate manufacturing of sustainable polymers using state-of-the-art data science, and to enhance development of a cross-disciplinary workforce skilled in this area.

Simons Foundation
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For: Faculty, Postdocs, Broadening Participation

Letter of Intent deadline. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path. Requires PhD in math, astronomy, physics where 50% of work focuses on teaching or supporting computational efforts.

National Institutes of Health
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For: Faculty, Broadening Participation, BioHealth

Letter of intent due date. The overall goals of this NOFO is to reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality and enhance quality of life in cancer survivors through an orderly sequence from research on interventions and their impact in defined populations to the broad, systematic application of the research results through dissemination and diffusion strategies.

Simons Foundation
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For: Faculty, Postdocs

Letter of intent due. The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions in existing academic departments, to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers.

American Lung Association
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For: Faculty, Industry and Innovation, BioHealth

Five opportunities available: Catalyst Research, Dalsemer Interstitial Research, and two innovation awards.

Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
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For: Postdocs, Graduate Students

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) are accepting applications for the 2025 Marine Energy Fellowship, which features one track for graduate students working on marine energy-focused research and a new post-graduate track for recent graduates advancing their careers in marine energy.