Have a Project?
When you find a funding source that fits your project, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) for assistance with your proposals and grant applications.
Note: OSP requires 10 business days for review and approval of all proposal submissions. This timeline provides at minimum five (5) business days to assist in creating the internal business-related elements and five (5) business days for internal routing and approvals. Read more about this timeline.
Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award
This opportunity provides $25,000 (with a $25,000 match required) and expert external reviews to an assistant professor to support his/her research and strengthen the researchers’ results to be more competitive for a faculty early career award.
MAP Academy opens call for 2025-26 ‘Catalyst’ proposals
New funding is available to help Nebraska researchers strengthen their data and analyses. The Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics (MAP Academy) is seeking proposals for a competitive funding opportunity created to enhance the rigor of field-based human subjects research at the University of Nebraska.
Faculty across all campuses and disciplines are invited to submit proposals for the MAP Academy’s 2025–26 Applied Analytics and Data Infrastructure (AADI) Catalyst Program.
Successful applicants may receive up to $5,000 in project support from MAP Academy faculty and staff. Funds will be awarded for use in the 2025-26 fiscal year and must be used by June 30, 2026. Proposals designed to strengthen teams’ competitiveness for future large-scale funding opportunities are especially encouraged.
For full consideration, please submit proposals by Oct. 17. Submissions received after this priority deadline will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Find more details, including how to apply, at https://go.unl.edu/aadi.
STEM Opportunities
FPBCC ACS IRG: Funding Opportunity for Junior Investigators
Full Proposal Deadline: November 17, 2025
Here is the Request for Applications (RFA) of the American Cancer Society’s Institutional Research Grant Seed Grant Program. This seed funding supports pilot studies for early-career, independent investigators who do not have current national peer-reviewed research grant support.
We encourage junior investigators to submit an application.
For purposes of this RFA, eligibility is restricted to:
Full-time NU faculty member in your first independent appointment at the level of Assistant Professor, which began no more than six years ago
They must be eligible to apply for independent nationally competitive research grants but do not hold an NIH R01-equivalent grant.
- Funding of $60,000 per project can be used to generate preliminary results that will enable them to compete in future applications for cancer research
- Projects may last up to 12 months
- The full proposal is due no later than November 17, 2025
- Projects will begin in December 2025
- PIs must be within six years of their first independent faculty appointment
- Previous recipients of FPBCC ACS IRG seed grants are ineligible to apply
- Applicants from populations that are underrepresented in the US biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences research enterprise are encouraged to apply
The attached RFA should be reviewed before preparing an application in InfoReady.
Questions? Email Wendi Jensen wendi.jensen@unmc.edu
⇒ NSF launches trainee track to help prepare graduate students to enter STEM careers
The new track will expand the NSF Research Traineeship Program in key technology areas
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new track of the NSF Research Traineeship program (NRT) designed to help graduate students at non-R1 institutions of higher education (IHEs) – institutions without high research activity – develop the skills, knowledge and competencies needed to pursue a range of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The NSF Research Traineeship Institutional Partnership Pilot (NRT-IPP) will catalyze a new partnership approach, bringing industry to the table to in turn enable students to receive industry-relevant experience in key technology areas as outlined in the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022."
The NRT program has long been dedicated to shaping and supporting effective training of students at the graduate level. The program focuses on high-priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas using comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. NRT-IPP advances these goals with further emphases on industry and specific focus areas within STEM.
The program invites proposals to test, develop and implement innovative and effective STEM graduate education models leading to industry-relevant graduate programs at non-R1 institutions. These institutions will collaborate with industry partners and partners at IHEs who have successfully implemented or are implementing NRT projects in the chosen focus area(s) identified for this new track.
⇒ Information Management Prototype for Clinical and Translational Research (IMPACT-CTR)
Dear Translational Team Leaders:
I invite you to participate in a study I’m conducting to understand how funded translational research teams manage their information. This study, Information Management Prototype for Clinical and Translational Research (IMPACT-CTR), is funded by an R01 from the National Library of Medicine and aims to understand the tools and strategies teams use in seeking, using, creating, sharing, storing, and retrieving information while conducting collaborative clinical and translational research. We will use what we learn to create training materials to help teams develop evidence-based information strategies that can make CTR - and all scientific work - more efficient and effective.
To participate in this study, please complete the interest form, and a member of the research team will reach out to schedule a brief informational call!
Betsy Rolland, Ph.D. MLIS MPH
Principal Investigator, IMPACT-CTR
Associate Director, Team Science
Sage Bionetworks
Email: betsy.rolland@sagebase.org
Arts and Humanities Opportunities
⇒ Humanities Nebraska 2025 Grant Opportunities
Various opportunities are open
⇒ Nebraska Arts Council 2025 Grant Opportunities
Arts Learning Projects Grants
This grant program supports initiatives with a strong educational emphasis in preK-12 schools or in community settings. Community-based projects must incorporate educational learning outcomes in the arts. School-based projects must incorporate local or national educational learning standards in the arts and may also be aligned with standards in other disciplines.