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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.
STEM Opportunities
⇒ NSF 26-503: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Education Innovation and Scholarship for Service - Scholarship Track
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time):
July 21, 2026
Third Tuesday in July, Annually Thereafter
Scholarship Track
Full Proposal Target Date(s):
April 03, 2026
Scholarship Track
Note: In 2026, there are two Scholarship Track competitions: Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 competition with a target date of April 3, 2026; and FY 2027 competition with a deadline date of July 21, 2026. Proposals submitted after the target date will still be accepted, although if they miss FY 2026 panel dates, they will be considered for FY 2027 funding. Proposals submitted after July 21 will not be accepted.
Synopsis of Program: Government and the nation face a talent shortfall in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS) program welcomes proposals that address AI and cybersecurity education and workforce development. CyberAI refers to using AI in cybersecurity as well as providing security and resilience for AI systems.
The Scholarship Track provides funding to establish, or to continue, scholarship for service programs with integrated AI and cybersecurity components (CyberAI). Scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and work after graduation in the AI or cybersecurity mission of a government organization for a period of at least the length of the scholarship. The Scholarship Track funds academic institutions to award scholarships to students. In return students agree to work in the AI or cybersecurity mission of a government agency. This post-graduation work period must be at least as long as the scholarship. All scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Proposals submitted to this track must clearly specify one of two focus areas in the proposal summary:
Focus Area–Cyber: prepares cyber experts to use AI in cybersecurity operations. The scholars must complete a formal cybersecurity program (major, minor, concentration, track, certificate, etc.) with at least four cybersecurity courses and a minimum of two AI courses.
Focus Area–AI: prepares AI professionals to protect the security of AI systems and infrastructure. The scholars must complete a formal AI program (major, minor, concentration, track, certificate, etc.) with at least four AI courses and a minimum of two cybersecurity courses. All proposals must include meaningful opportunities for scholars to engage in informal learning experiences (competitions, service learning, etc.), mentored research, and applied projects in AI and cybersecurity.
Proposals may address the security of emerging domains such as quantum computing, aerospace, energy, or other high-impact sectors where AI and cybersecurity are converging.
Click here to view the solicitation
⇒ 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.