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Upcoming Opportunities
P&G Higher Education Grant
The Procter & Gamble Fund Higher Education Grant Program has been established to provide support for efforts of regionally accredited U.S. colleges and universities that will better prepare students for success in business. These grants are aimed at projects that enhance student success focusing on areas such as curriculum improvement, leadership opportunities, innovation, and diversity enhancement. Grants will be provided for specific projects or programs, not for operating support.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1961932
Climate Smart Humanities Organizations
As energy costs rise and natural disasters become more frequent, humanities organizations - such as museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, and colleges and universities - face an enormous task: to anticipate operational, physical, and financial impacts of climate-related events on their institutions, while also reducing their own impact on the environment. Climate Smart Humanities Organizations supports these efforts by offering federal matching funds for comprehensive organizational assessments that lead to strategic climate action and adaptation plans.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1961735
Environmental Research and Education Foundation: pre-proposal General RFP
Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) is an IRS 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is one of the largest sources of funding for solid waste research in North America. The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices.
Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 24, 2025
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1967486
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program - Track 1
The NRT Program is dedicated to shaping and supporting highly effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through the use of comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1963159
Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), invites grant applications for Education and Research Centers (ERCs) that are focused on occupational safety and health training. NIOSH is mandated to provide an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the ERCs are one of the primary means for meeting this mandate.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1967066
Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research 2025
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), Materials Research Institute (MRI), the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE), the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and the Cancer Institute (CU), is offering a new interdisciplinary seed grant program aimed at developing new or leveraging existent strategic partnerships and alliances with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs): the Inter-Institutional Program for Diversifying Research. The goal of the IPDR is to perform collaborative work that advances research development capability as well as student and faculty training needed to support such research collaborations.
Deadline: Saturday, May 10, 2025
https://www.huck.psu.edu/seed-funding-large-proposal-catalysis/seed-fun…
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program - Track 1
The NRT Program is dedicated to shaping and supporting highly effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through the use of comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.
Internal Submission Deadline: Friday, June 6, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1963159
W.M. Keck Foundation: Science & Engineering/Medical Research - June 2025 Grant Cycle
The W. M. Keck Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting two different areas: (1) Medical Researchand (2) Science & Engineering. Keck seeks distinctive, novel projects that question prevailing paradigms, of have the potential to break open new territory in their field.
Both senior and early career investigators are encouraged to apply. Team approaches, including interdisciplinary teams, are encouraged.
Past grants have been awarded to major universities, independent research institutions, and medical schools to support pioneering biological or physical science and engineering research, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies. You will read about two categories throughout (1) Medical Research and (2) Science & Engineering; these two areas are distinct.
Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 4:00 pm
https://psu.infoready4.com/CompetitionSpace/#competitionDetail/1969696
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers Award
This program is meant to support institutions or consortia that have already begun to work toward taking on the problem of climate’s impact on health. Consortia might include neighboring institutions with already established collaborations, but of more relevance to this RFP are consortia of institutions united by common interests, for example in the health of residents of the Appalachian Mountains or the Great Lakes region, an urban focus, or a focus on rural life, etc.
Deadline: August 7, 2025