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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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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 |
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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 |
|
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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 |
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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 |
|
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |