Active Funding Opportunities

Active Funding Opportunities

Following is a list of active grant announcements from federal and state funding agencies, foundations, and internal sources.

FEDERAL

NSF's INTERN program:  A supplemental funding program available to PIs and CO-Pis of active NSF awards that provides "for one or more graduate students to gain knowledge, skills and experiences that will augment their preparation for a successful long-term career through an internship in a non-academic setting”.

STATE

No relevant announcements at this time.

FOUNDATIONS

Spencer Foundation:  Racial Equity Special Research Grants

• Applications Open:  November 9, 2020
• Letter of Intent Deadline:  December 15, 2020 (Noon, CT)
• Full Proposal Deadline:  January 12, 2021 (Noon, CT)
• Program Contact:  Jasmine Janicki, jjanicki@spencer.org
• URL:  https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/racial-equity-special-research-grants

INTERNAL

LIMITED SUBMISSIONS:

USDA - Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Program (WAMS) 2021

• Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, November 30, 2020
• Funding Organization's Deadline: Thursday, January 21, 2021
• Award Cycle: 2021
• Discipline/Subject Area: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

• URL: https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/women-and-minorities-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-fields

HRSA-21-089 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Professionals 

• Notice of Intent Deadline: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
• Funding Organization's Deadline: Thursday, January 21, 2021
• Award Cycle: 2021
• Discipline/Subject Area: Behavioral and Public Health
• Funding Available: 44,200,000
• URL: https://www.hrsa.gov/grants/find-funding/hrsa-21-089

American Honda Foundation competition.  

• Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, November 16, 2020
• Funding Organization's Deadline: Monday, February 1, 2021
• Award Cycle: 2020
• Discipline/Subject Area: STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
• URL: https://www.honda.com/community/applying-for-a-grant

Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program competition.

•  Funding Organization's Deadline: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
• Award Cycle: 2021
• Discipline/Subject Area: Social sciences and humanities
• Funding Available: 7,000,000
• URL: https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/andrew-carnegie-fellows-2021/

CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT CENTER

 Cisco - Ethics in AI - RFP-21-01 

• Award Cycle: 2020
• Discipline/Subject Area: Artificial Intelligence
• URL:  https://research.cisco.com/research#rfp-202101

Cisco - Edge Computing - RFP-21-03 competition 

• Award Cycle: 2020
• Discipline/Subject Area: Edge Computing
• URL:  https://research.cisco.com/research#rfp-202101

Cisco - Future of Work - RFP-21-02 

• Award Cycle: 2020
• Discipline/Subject Area: Workplace Design
• URL:  https://research.cisco.com/research#rfp-202101

THE INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA SCIENCES

New seed grant program designed to provide faculty and research groups with added support related to computational research, data science, or cyber infrastructure needs. 

Faculty members from all Penn State campuses are encouraged to apply by Nov. 20 by submitting a brief proposal.

The program will pair researchers with experts from ICDS’s Research Innovations with Scientists and Engineers (RISE) team. The RISE team has deep knowledge of various scientific domains as well as broad knowledge of research cyberinfrastructure. They specialize in:

• Databases
• Visualization
• Code optimization
• Application development
• Science gateways
• Cloud computing
• Cyberinfrastructure development
• Other skillsets needed for research in computational and data sciences

SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE

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Reducing Social Disparities
Proposals sought for pilot research projects aiming at reducing social disparities. This RFP is motivated by evidence of increasing inequities in health and health care, education and employment opportunities, poverty ad economic well-being, exposure to adverse environments and other domains of life.

Application Priority:

• Propose novel research, including high-risk, high-reward and transformative, proof-of-concept projects that assemble or generate preliminary data necessary for external funding; 
• Develop collaborations involving interdisciplinary teams of junior and senior faculty.

• Call for Proposals:  November 3, 2020
• Proposals Due:  January 18, 2021 (by 5 pm)
• Decisions Announced:  February 15, 2021