Funding

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This calendar highlights Early Career Research, featuring federal and private programs that support investigators across a range of disciplines and topic areas. The calendar includes opportunities with confirmed upcoming deadlines, as well as recurring cycles and programs expected to open over the coming year.

Opportunities can be sorted by broad disciplinary area and searched by keyword, making it easier to identify funding programs that align with specific research in...

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Due to the limited number of applications allowed by institutions, all SIUE faculty interested in submitting an NIH BRE-SPAD proposal must submit a letter of intent in Kuali Build no later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

About the Program

NIH's Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) program's aim is to promote broad participation in biomedical research by supporting resource-limited institutions to conduct r...

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The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

Discipline(s): STEM Education

NSF limits the number of proposals submitted by an organization to two (2) proposals. Institutions with a current S-STEM award should wait at least until the end of the third year of execution of their current award before submitting a new S-STEM proposal focused on students pursuing degrees in the same discipline(s).  Due to this limit on the number of proposals per institution, interested SIUE applicants must apply to the internal competition by completing t...

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The Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a SIUE faculty member in order to recognize the role of interdependence of research/scholarship and teaching. The Award confirms SIUE's belief that an individual must be a good scholar to be a good teacher.

The Paul Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A certificate and a $5...

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NIH will require new SciENcv Common Form versions of Biosketches and Other Support documents for applications with due dates on or after January 25, 2026. RPPRs and JITs, and prior approval requests submitted on and after January 25 must also use the new Common Form versions. SciENcv is required to create and certify the now-available Common Forms: 

• NIH Biographical Sketch Common Form (which includes the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement)
• NIH Current and Pending (Ot...

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The Illinois Arts Council (IAC) has announced the Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) Creative Accelerator Fund (CAF) award, offering a $10,000 taxable grant to support our vibrant creative workforce. To qualify, individual artists must demonstrate an active and sustained practice, be at least 21 years of age, be established as an Illinois resident, and not be currently enrolled full-time at a college or university in any undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral program.

A pre-recorded webi...

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NSF invites you to attend a virtual question and answer session titled Office Hours: Intro to America’s Seed Fund at NSF:

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2-3 p.m. EDT (click to register)

The U.S. National Science Foundation relaunched its Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (NSF SBIR/STTR) programs with $250 million for the nation's startups and small businesses, including a new $40 million pilot emphasis area targeting the next generation of scien...

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Due to the limited number of applications allowed by institutions, all SIUE faculty interested in submitting an NIH BRE-SPAD proposal must submit a letter of intent in Kuali Build no later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

About the Program

NIH's Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) program's aim is to promote broad participation in biomedical research by supporting resource-limited institutions to conduct r...

Discipline(s): All

The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

Discipline(s): All

The Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a SIUE faculty member in order to recognize the role of interdependence of research/scholarship and teaching. The Award confirms SIUE's belief that an individual must be a good scholar to be a good teacher.

The Paul Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A certificate and a $5...

Discipline(s): All

Due to the limited number of applications allowed by institutions, all SIUE faculty interested in submitting an NIH BRE-SPAD proposal must submit a letter of intent in Kuali Build no later than 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

About the Program

NIH's Biomedical Research Environment & Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) program's aim is to promote broad participation in biomedical research by supporting resource-limited institutions to conduct r...

Discipline(s): All

The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the Vaughnie Lindsay New Investigator Award, which is made to tenure-track SIUE faculty members to bring recognition to and support individual programs of research or creative activities. These Awards recognize faculty members whose research or creative activities have the promise of making significant contributions to their field of study.

To be eligible, a nominee must have:  

• earned the appropriate terminal...

Discipline(s): All

The Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award is presented to a SIUE faculty member in order to recognize the role of interdependence of research/scholarship and teaching. The Award confirms SIUE's belief that an individual must be a good scholar to be a good teacher.

The Paul Simon Award recognizes faculty members who contribute original research or creative activities and integrate that research or creative activity into their teaching activities. A certificate and a $5...

Discipline(s): All

Some external funding programs limit the number of submissions from an institution (this could be letter of intent (LOI) or full submission).   When this is the case the university must decide which proposals will go forward and an internal competition is held. To facilitate a fair decision-making process, faculty/staff who wish to apply to a limited submission funding opportunity, prior to submitting an LOI (if required) or submitting a full proposal must notify OR...

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This calendar highlights Non-Federal Research grants, featuring private funders and programs that support investigators across a range of disciplines and topic areas. The calendar includes opportunities with confirmed upcoming deadlines, as well as recurring cycles and programs expected to open over the coming year.

Opportunities can be sorted by broad disciplinary area and searched by keyword, making it easier to identify funding programs that align with specific resea...

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The search for grants eats up hours that could go toward applying, creating art, or running arts programs. It shouldn’t be this hard.

That's why Arts Midwest built the Arts Funding Finder, the newest addition to their online resources for artists and arts organizations, made possible by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Program.  Their new tool helps Midwestern creatives and arts organizations explore grants and research funders, cutting throug...

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The Graduate School now provides university-wide access to Pivot-RP, a comprehensive database of funding opportunities and an expertise database to help you identify potential collaborators across SIUE and at institutions worldwide. This database enables quick and easy access to funding opportunities aligned with your areas of expertise, and also enables automated funding alerts tailored to their interests.

Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding...

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The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (NSF MPS) has published five new funding opportunities supporting foundational research in astronomical sciences, chemistry, materials research, mathematical sciences and physics.

The five funding opportunities collectively span more than 40 research programs supported by NSF MPS. Each funding opportunity includes multiple foundational research programs grouped as follows:

• MPS Astronom...

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About the series

Monthly virtual office webinars will focus on updates from the U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences that may be of interest to the biological sciences research community.

Upcoming webinars

Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.