Explore STEM & social sciences funding
The Grant Support Office (GSO) is dedicated to helping CLAS researchers diversify their funding and discover funding opportunities that align with their research goals and interests. This page features a list of external grant funding opportunities tailored to STEM and social sciences research. The list is divided into two sections, the first for foundations, societies and other non-federal sponsors, and the second for federal and state sponsors.
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Learn more about setting up a funding search by emailing CLAS-GSO@uiowa.edu.
Foundation funding deadlines
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Energy & Environment Program
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Matter-to-Life Program
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Higher Education in STEM
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Public Understanding of Science & Technology (Various program areas, including books, media, radio, etc.)
- 11/15/2024: American Fellowships
- 10/15/2025: Academic Research Grants
- Rolling Nominations: Distinguished Awards (Deadline if accepted 02/07/2025)
- 03/14/2025 (Letter of Inquiry): Research Grants
- Rolling (05/11/2024 – 11/10/2024): Spring Award Round
- Rolling (11/11/2024 – 05/10/2025): Fall Award Round
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Medical and Scientific Research Grants
- 03/11/2025 (Letter of Inquiry): Core Research Grants
- 02/04/2025: Dissertation Research Grants
- 06/25/2025: Fellowships
- Rolling (Letter of Inquiry): Targeted Grants in MPS
- 01/29/2025: Travel Support for Mathematicians
- 05/01/2025: Keck Foundation Medical Research Grant (Limited Submission Deadline 12/02/2024)
- 05/01/2025: Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Research Grant (Limited Submission Deadline 12/02/2024)
- 01/15/2025 (Letter of Inquiry): Research Grants in the Life Sciences
Federal funding deadlines
- Broad Agency Announcements:
DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory for Foundational Research
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- 12/08/2024: Individual National Research Service Awards (Standard) – (All F-Series Fellowships)
- 12/12/2024: Conference Grants and Conference Cooperative Agreements – (All R13 & U13)
- 02/05/2025: Research Grants – (New R01 & U01)
- 02/12/2025: Research Career Development – (New K-Series)
- 02/16/2025: Other Research Grants and Cooperatives – (New R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36, U34, UH2, UH3, UH2/UH3)
- 02/25/2025: Academic Research Enhancement Award – (All R15)
- Rolling: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Encouraging Women’s Health Research within the NIDCD Mission Areas
- Rolling: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grant (Parent T32)
- Rolling: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Promoting Language and Communication in Minimally Verbal/Non-Speaking Individuals with Autism
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- 09/01/25 – 09/30/25, 10/01/25 – 10/31/25 (Deadline Dependent on Division): Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs
- 09/20/24 – 12/20/24 (Deadline Dependent on Division): Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
- 10/1/2024 – 11/15/2024: Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation for the Astronomical Sciences
- 11/05/2024: Geometric Analysis
- 11/05/2024: Topology
- 11/06/2024: Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 11/07/2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- 11/13/2024: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
- 11/15/2024: Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program: Instrument Acquisition or Development (Limited Submission Deadline 9/9/2024)
- 11/15/2024: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
- 11/15/2024: Applied Mathematics
- 11/15/2024: Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants
- 11/17/24, 12/3/2024, 12/10/2024 (Deadline Dependent on Subfield): Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects
- 11/18/2024: Plasma Physics
- 12/02/2024: Archaeometry
- 12/02/2024: Computational Mathematics
- 12/02/2024: Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
- 12/16/2024: Statistics
- 12/17/2024 (Letter of Inquiry): EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (Limited Submission)
- 04/25/2025, 10/24/2025: Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity
- 05/13/2025, 10/28/2025 (Deadline Dependent on Division): Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science
- 06/02/2025: NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP)
- 06/24/2025: Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research 2.0
- 10/01/2025 – 10/23/2025 (MEDIUM & OAC Core): Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- 10/03/2025: Smart Health and Biomedical Research in an Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science
- 10/10/2025: Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI)
- 10/10/2025: Algebra and Number Theory
- 10/15/2025: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- 10/20/2025: Paleo Perspectives on Present and Projected Climate
- Awaiting Next Cycle Deadlines: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Rolling Programs:
- Atmosphere Cluster (AGS-AC)
- Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
- Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (HRRBAA)
- Smart and Connected Communities
- Fluid Dynamics
- (SMALL): Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs
- Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
- Sociology
- Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS)