The McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Grants Office maintains this list of current external funding opportunities for faculty across disciplines. We update the listings monthly to help you discover potential matches for your research, scholarship, and creative activity.
If you're interested in applying for any of the opportunities below, please contact our office for support with the application process.
All external grant applications must go through the university SAM Office (via USCeRA) for unit/college and institutional approvals. Please coordinate USCeRA submission with the CAS Grants Team.
“Please note: Some opportunities may have limited submission policies. Be sure to check details carefully or reach out for clarification.”
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Due Date |
Program Announcement |
Sponsor |
Description |
Max Amount |
Limited Submission |
Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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08/17/2026 |
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) |
NSF |
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of bio-markers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. |
n/a |
No |
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08/19/2026 |
Research Experiences for Undergraduates |
NSF |
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. |
Varies |
No |
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09/01/2026 |
History of Art Grants |
Kress Foundation |
The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects, including those incorporating the use of digital methodologies and tools, that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, such as archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. |
Varies |
No |
|
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09/01/2026 |
Multi-Year Program Support |
Andy Warhol Foundation |
Proposals are accepted for two years of visual arts programming, which can include exhibitions, residencies, public art projects, screenings, performances, lectures, publications, and other artist-centered activities. Program Support Grants are designed to support visual arts programs taking place in a 2-year period. |
$100,000 |
No |
|
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09/01/2026 |
Exhibition Support |
Andy Warhol Foundation |
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts provides grants to US-based 501(c)(3) organizations supporting the work of contemporary visual artists. Grants support exhibitions, commissioned new work, publications, public programs that bring critics, scholars, artists and the public into dialogue with their work, and opportunities to experiment and take creative risks. The majority of grants are made to US-based institutions, with twice-yearly review cycles. |
$100,000 |
No |
|
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09/01/2026 |
Society Fellowships |
Society for the Humanities: Cornell University |
The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks faculty fellows for year-long residential fellowships who are conducting interdisciplinary research projects exploring play. Easily dismissed as frivolous, juvenile, or unserious, play represents a core human activity (homo ludens) with a rich tradition of scholarship in the humanities. |
$68,000 |
No |
|
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09/01/2026 |
Furthermore |
J.M. Kaplan Fund |
Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in writing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. |
$12,000 |
No |
|
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09/03/2026 |
Director's Transformative Research Award for Individual and Group Science (R01 Clincal Trail Optional) |
NIH |
The NIH Director"s Transformative Research Award supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing bold, groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. |
Varies |
No |
|
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09/08/2026 |
Neurofibromatosis Research Program, Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award |
DOW/CDMRP |
Supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain, and potentially groundbreaking concepts in neurofibromatosis (NF) research. Studies supported by this award mechanism should lay the groundwork for future avenues of scientific investigation. |
$160,000 |
No |
|
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09/09/2026 |
Director's Pioneer Award (DP1 Clinical Trail Optional) |
NIH |
The NIH Director"s Pioneer Award supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of NIH. To be considered pioneering, the proposed research must reflect substantially different scientific directions from those already being pursued in the investigator"s research program or elsewhere. |
$700,000 |
No |
|
|
09/10/2026 |
Director's Early Independence Award (DP5 Clinical Trial Optional) |
NIH |
The NIH Director's Early Independence Award helps talented new researchers begin their own independent research program soon after finishing their doctoral degree or clinical training, without first doing postdoctoral training.The award accepts applications on any topic fitting the NIH mission. |
$1,750,000 |
No |
|
|
09/10/2026 |
Radcliffe Fellowship |
Harvard Radcliffe Institute |
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program offers scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full academic year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard University(two deadlines: 9/10/26 for humanities, etc and 10/1/26 for science and mathematics) |
$83,000 |
No |
|
|
09/15/2026 |
Production and Presentation Grants |
Graham Foundation |
These grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, exhibitions, installations; film/video/new media web initiatives; public programs; and publications. |
$15,000 |
No |
|
|
09/15/2026 |
Fulbright Global Scholar Award |
Fulbright Scholar Program |
The Fulbright Global Scholar Award allows U.S. academics and professionals to engage in multi-country, multi-regional projects. As a truly worldwide award, U.S. scholars will be able to propose research or combined teaching/research activity in two to three countries within two different world regions with flexible schedule options; trips can be conducted within one academic year or spread over two consecutive years. |
Varies |
No |
|
|
09/16/2026 |
Collaborative Research |
NEH |
The Collaborative Research program aims to advance knowledge in the humanities by supporting teams of scholars working on a project leading to an interpretive product. Teams may propose research in a single field of study or interdisciplinary work. NEH encourages projects that incorporate multiple points of view and pursue new avenues of inquiry. |
$250,000 |
No |
|
|
09/16/2026 |
Scholarly Editions and Translations |
NEH |
The purpose of this program supports collaborative teams who edit, annotate, and translate foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are not available in adequate editions or translations. This year's competition is limited to projects on American history and culture or Western civilization. Applications must focus on topics in the history and culture of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present. |
$300,000 |
No |
|
|
09/21/2026 |
Convening Grant |
Terra Foundation for American Art |
The Terra Foundation for American Art's Convening Grants program supports conversations, symposia, workshops, and other convenings that stimulate interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange related to the visual arts of the United States and Indigenous arts of North America. |
$25,000 |
Yes |
|
|
09/30/2026 |
Conerstone: Learning for Living |
Teagle Foundation |
This program aims to revitalize the role of the humanities in general education by supporting faculty-led curricular reform that creates a common intellectual experience for students, especially incoming undergraduates, through transformative texts and coherent pathways through general education. |
$300,000 |
Yes |
|
|
10/01/2026 |
Fellowships for External Faculty |
Stanford Humanities Center |
Sponsoring research in the traditional and emergent disciplines of the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. (Creative arts projects are not eligible.) The projects of these fellows have drawn on every imaginable approach, from conventional methods to those critical of the disciplines themselves. In partnership with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, they welcome applications in the digital humanities. Especially appropriate are projects that are likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a group of scholars. | $70,000 | No | View More |
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10/01/2026 |
Residential Fellowship |
National Humanities Center |
The National Humanities Center welcomes applications to its Residential Fellowship. Mid-career and advanced scholars are especially invited to apply. | Varies | No | View More |
|
10/05/2026 |
Grants for Health Care Division and Child and Family Wellbeing Division |
Duke Endowment |
The Duke Endowment Health Care Division looks for opportunities to support the development and testing of new approaches that can outperform the current standard of care. These new approaches will require robust evaluation plans that build the evidence necessary to understand what works and accelerate the systemic reforms necessary to scale and sustain best practices. |
$250,000 |
Yes |
|
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10/15/2026 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAPF) |
NSF |
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships provide an opportunity for highly qualified, recent doctoral scientists to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. Fellows may engage in observational, instrumental, theoretical, laboratory or archival data research in any area of astronomy or astrophysics, in combination with a coherent educational plan for the duration of the fellowship |
$110,000 |
No |
|
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10/16/2026 |
Defense University Resarch Instrumentation Program (DURIP) |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
DURIP is an annual program under DOW’s University Research Initiative (URI) that provides funding for major, state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation (from $50,000 to $3 million) that support defense-related research activities. |
$3,000,000 |
No |
|
|
10/21/2026 |
Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants |
Russell Sage Foundation |
The Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants Competition seeks to support early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and/or employed at under-resourced colleges and universities. |
$65,000 |
No |
|
|
10/30/2026 |
Research Program |
W. M. Keck Foundation |
The W. M. Keck Foundation Research Program supports basic science research projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. The Foundation funds pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies in service of answering basic scientific questions. |
$1,300,000 |
Yes |
|
|
11/04/2026 |
Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) |
NSF |
This program will advance scientific community datasets to enable scientific discovery and innovation using artificial intelligence (AI) and other methods. Its goal is to increase the value that can be derived from existing scientific datasets by leveraging novel methods and artificial intelligence (AI). |
$2,000,000 |
No |
|
|
12/01/2026 |
Visiting Fellowship |
Tanner Humanities Center |
The Tanner Humanities Center’s mission is to promote humanistic research and education at the University of Utah, in the state, and in the nation. Projects in the following fields are eligible for support: anthropology; archaeology; art history, theory, or criticism; communication; creative writing; ethnic, gender, or cultural studies; history; jurisprudence; languages; linguistics; literature; philosophy; religious studies; and historical or philosophical issues in the social sciences, natural sciences, or the professions. |
$70,000 |
No |
|
|
12/07/2026 |
National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds (NQVL) |
NSF |
The NQVL aims to develop and utilize use-inspired and application-oriented quantum technologies. In the process, NQVL researchers will explore quantum frontiers6, foster the development of QISE education and workforce development strategies, engage in outreach activities at all levels, and promote input and participation from the full spectrum of talent in QISE, thereby lowering barriers at all entry points of the research enterprise. |
$4,000,000 |
Yes |
|
|
12/07/2026 |
Promoting Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic REsearch Training (U2C) |
NIH |
The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to invite applications for Institutional Network Awards (U2C-TL1) to recruit, train, and retain the next generation of researchers and provide them with the coordinated support, resources, and networks they need to succeed and lead. |
$2,100,000 |
Yes |
|
|
12/09/2026 |
Public Humanitiees Projects |
NEH |
The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. |
$750,000 |
N/A |
|
|
Open |
Broad Agency Announcement of Fundamental Research Priorities |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
AFOSR plans, coordinates, and executes the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) basic research program in response to technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force. Additionally, the office fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air Force, university, and industry laboratories; and ensures transition of research results to support U.S. Air Force needs. The focus of AFOSR is on research areas that offer significant and comprehensive benefits to our national war fighting and peacekeeping capabilities. |
Varies |
No |
|
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n/a |
Various (see website) |
NIH |
NIH grant opportunities are numerous and regularly changing across a wide array of component agencies. |
n/a |
N/A |