External Funding Resources
Grants Calendars
Hanover produces a Grants Calendar centered on upcoming grant opportunities covering a range of grantmakers. Short-term targets with set deadlines are included alongside longer-term opportunities projected to occur across the next year and beyond.
Faculty can subscribe to other calendars and alerts at Hanover.
Upcoming External Funding Opportunities
Questions can be directed to Associate Dean for Research, Mark Hoffmann.
Opportunities with Specific Deadlines
CURE Childhood Cancer: Childhood Cancer Research
CURE invites proposals for promising childhood cancer research with a goal to ensure that children have the best chance to survive their cancer without sacrificing their future health and quality of life. CURE offers two different types of research grants: Translation to CURE Award, open to all investigators, and the Early Investigator award. LOIs are due by 2/15/24. CURE
Clinical-Community Linkages to Address Unmet Social Needs and Adverse Social Determinants of Health (R01) (NIH)
Care delivery has traditionally approached a patient’s health as separate and distinct from their social context. This practice must be reimagined to make meaningful improvements in health, eliminate health disparities, and advance health equity. The purpose of the Bridge-to-Care Initiative is to advance research that leverages healthcare-community partnerships to address unmet health-related social needs among individuals and families and adverse social determinants of health within communities. LOIs are due by 2/21/24. Linkages NIH
Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (NSF)
This program’s goal is to improve the quality and environment of astronomy and astrophysics research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term partnerships that provide authentic pathways into the research enterprise and broaden participation in astronomy by encouraging proposals from the full spectrum of talent across society to include individuals from groups that have been historically underrepresented. It is expected that grants will build or strengthen research capacity, as well as foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment for astronomy and astrophysics research and education at the partnering institutions. Proposals are due by 3/12/24. Astrophysics NSF
Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (HHS ARPA-H)
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health posts this funding opportunity in support of its Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts Program. ARPA-H anticipates multiple awards and award types will result from this announcement, but provides very little detail. Proposals are due by 3/1/24. HHS Eye Allografts
Future of Semiconductors (NSF)
This program aims to cultivate holistic, co-design approaches to fundamental research and workforce education and training in order to enable rapid progress in new semiconductor technologies. The future of semiconductor manufacturing will require the design and deployment of diverse new technologies in materials, chemical and materials processes, devices, and architectures through the development of application-driven systems. Partnerships between industry and academic institutions are essential to spurring this innovation, enabling technology transfer, informing research infrastructure needs, and training the future workforce. Proposals are due by 3/14/24. Semiconductors NSF
FY2024 Research Opportunities in Accelerator Stewardship and Accelerator Development (DOE)
This program aims to fund applications to conduct cross-cutting use-inspired basic research and development to advance accelerator science and technology and domestic supplier development that supports DOE’s activities in physical sciences research, and which is of broader benefit to other U.S. government agencies and industry. Proposals are due by 3/19/24. DOE Accelerator Stewardship
Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering (DOE)
This program in Fusion Energy Sciences hereby announces its interest in receiving new or renewal single-investigator or small-group research applications from universities and non-profit organizations to carry out frontier-level research in basic plasma science and engineering. This includes: (i) dynamical processes in laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma, such as magnetic reconnection, plasma dynamo, shocks, turbulence cascade, structures, waves, flows and their interactions; (ii) behavior of dusty plasma, non-neutral, single-component matter or antimatter plasma, and ultra-cold neutral plasma; and (iii) plasma chemistry and processes in low temperature plasma. Proposals are due by 3/29/24. DOE Plasma
Integrated Biological and Computational Low-Dose Radiation Research (DOE)
This program aims to support integrated biological and computational research to gain a mechanistic understanding of the effects of low dose radiation exposure on cellular functions. The long-term goal is to build on the understanding of radiation effects on cellular function and establish comprehensive datasets amenable to incorporation into increasingly capable AI/ML models to identify both transient and persistent changes in cellular metabolism that may be linked to adverse health outcomes. Proposals are due by 4/2/24. Radiation DOE
FY2024 Research and Development for Next Generation Nuclear Physics Accelerator Facilities (DOE)
This program hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Research and Development efforts directed at transformative accelerator R&D of relevance to current or next generation nuclear physics accelerator facilities. Proposals are due by 4/4/24. DOE Accelerator R&D
Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (NSF)
This CHIPS Act-funded program invites proposals from multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams that examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies in practice. A key goal of the program is to support and strengthen collaborations across disciplines and sectors, for example, academia, industry, and non-profits. The program also aims to ensure that ethical, legal, and societal considerations and community values are embedded across technology lifecycles to generate products that promote the public’s wellbeing and mitigate harm. Proposals are due by 4/8/24. NSF Responsible Design
Fellowships (NEH)
NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. Proposals are due by 4/10/24. NEH Fellowships
Future Manufacturing (NSF)
This program aims to support fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Future Manufacturing seeks inventive approaches to invigorate the manufacturing ecosystem and seed nascent future industries that can only be imagined today by supporting research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse STEM workforce, and by reducing adverse impacts of manufacturing on the environment. Proposals are due by 4/11/24 and 1/13/25. NSF Future Manufacturing
Fellowships for Digital Publication (NEH)
Fellowships for Digital Publication are competitive awards granted to individual scholars to support interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. That is, the project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print or audio-video publication. Proposals are due by 4/17/24. Digital Pub NEH
Data Reduction for Science (DOE)
The principal focus of this FOA is to support applied mathematics and computer science approaches that address one or more of the identified PRDs. Research proposed may involve methods primarily applicable to high-performance computing, to scientific edge computing, or anywhere scientific data must be collected or processed. Significant innovations will be required in the development of effective paradigms and approaches for realizing the full potential of data reduction for science. Proposed research should not focus only on particular data sets from specific applications, but rather on creating the body of knowledge and understanding that will inform future scientific advances. Proposals are due by 5/7/24. DOE Data Reduction
Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01) (NIH)
This program encourages applications for research in cancer control and population sciences. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance cancer research in statistical and analytic methods, epidemiology, cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviors and behavioral interventions, health care delivery, digital health and data science, and implementation science. Proposals are due by 6/5/24 and 10/5/24. NIH Cancer
Opportunities with Continual or Open Deadlines
Systems-Based Approaches to Improve Patient Safety by Improving Healthcare Worker Safety and Well-Being (R01) (AHRQ)
This program aims to advance system-level approaches to improve patient safety by improving healthcare worker safety and well-being. This NOFO will contribute to AHRQ’s goal of reinvigorating the patient safety movement by adding fresh perspectives and insights of healthcare professionals to efforts to improve patient safety. Standard NIH/AHRQ dates apply through late 2028. AHRQ Well Being
Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) in Human Cancers for Years 2024, 2025, and 2026 (P50 Clinical Trial Required)
The program will fund P50 SPORE grants to support state-of-the-art investigator-initiated translational research that will contribute to improved prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of an organ-specific cancer or a highly related group of cancers. For the purpose of this NOFO, a group of highly related cancers are those that are derived from the same organ system, such as gastrointestinal, neuroendocrine, head and neck, and other cancers. Other programmatically appropriate groups of cancers may include those centered around a common biological mechanism critical for promoting tumorigenesis and/or cancer progression in organ sites that belong to different organ systems. Standard NIH dates apply through September 2026. NIH SPORE
Investigator Initiated Clinical Trials of Complementary and Integrative Interventions Delivered Remotely or via mHealth (R01) (NIH)
This program encourages applications for investigator-initiated fully remotely delivered and conducted clinical trials to assess the efficacy or effectiveness of complementary and integrative health interventions in NCCIH-designated areas of high research priority. Applications submitted under this NOFO are expected to propose a remotely delivered and conducted fully powered clinical trial with no in-person contact between research staff and study participants and may utilize mHealth tools or technologies. Standard NIH dates apply through October 2026. Remote NIH
ERDC Broad Agency Announcement (DOD)
The ERDC funds research pertaining to the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes. This announcement is continuously open and is renewed in early January every year. ERDC
BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R21) (Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This NOFO seeks applications for unique and innovative recording and/or modulation technologies that are in the earliest stage of development, including new and untested ideas that are in the initial stages of conceptualization. Some projects may aim to increase recording or modulation capabilities by many orders of magnitude, while others may aim to improve the precision and selectivity of recording or modulation (also referred to as stimulation, perturbation, or manipulation). A wide range of modalities are appropriate including acoustic, chemical, electrical, magnetic, and optical, as well as the use of genetic tools. Deadlines are in June annually through 2026. NIH BRAIN
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (NSF)
Invites innovative proposals that address the critical need for recruiting, preparing, and retaining highly effective elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers and teacher leaders who persist as classroom teachers. To achieve this goal, Noyce supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers. It also supports experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become teacher leaders who continue as classroom teachers in high-need school districts. Proposals due annually by last Tuesday in August. NSF Noyce
Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (NSF)
This program supports fundamental research that explores embodied reasoning as mediated by bidirectional sensorimotor interaction between human and synthetic actors. The M3X Program seeks to spur innovative and path-breaking work that can improve understanding of interaction between human and synthetic actors in a broad range of settings, while also exploring implications for the advancement of fundamental theory, foundational technologies, and meaningful applications. Proposals are accepted at any time. NSF Nexus
Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (NSF)
This program supports projects that create computational tools and data to facilitate basic research in the social and behavioral sciences that can lead to improved health, prosperity and security. Projects should be aimed at creating computational tools and data to enable research by social scientists. Examples include, but are not limited to, data collection or assembly efforts that result in new resources for a community of researchers or software platforms that facilitate data collection efforts by others. Proposals are accepted at any time. NSF RISBS
Research in the Formation of Engineers (NSF)
This program aims to advance our understanding of professional formation. It seeks both to deepen our fundamental understanding of the underlying processes and mechanisms that support professional formation and to demonstrate how professional formation is or can be accomplished. PIs should provide a roadmap detailing how they envision the proposed research will eventually broadly impact practice within the engineer-formation system, even if these activities are not within the scope of the submitted proposal. Proposals are accepted at any time. NSF Formation
FY2024 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (DOE)
This program hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving grant applications for support of work in the following DOE program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. Proposals are accepted at any time. DOE Science
UND Resources
The UND Office of Research & Sponsored Program Development supports faculty through the proposal submission and award negotiation processes for sponsored funding applications on campus.
A&S Resources
For more information and assistance with external funding requests within the College of Arts & Sciences, please contact Associate Dean for Research, Mark Hoffmann.