What is a Limited Submission?

A limited submission solicitation places a cap on the number of proposals Auburn may submit to a sponsor. Auburn coordinates limited submissions with notifications via this newsletter and competitions created in the Auburn University Competition Space (InfoReady). To apply to any limited submission posted in this newsletter, click on the link within the announcement. Please refer to the Limited Submission Procedures page for a general list of requirements.

If you find an opportunity of interest contact the PSFS office sooner than later so that an internal competition can be created for a timely, university-wide, fair and equitable selection process that allows for ample time for review, feedback and revisions.

For a list of current and forcasted Limited Submission Opportunities in Pivot 
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NSF State & Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs

The NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program aims to expand access to the compute required for AI-enabled scientific discovery and to transform the research, education, and training opportunities offered by institutions of higher education. AI Infrastructure Hubs will connect researchers to new compute infrastructure that leverages contributions from state governments, research institutions, industry, and philanthropy, accelerating AI-enabled discovery across science and engineering and developing a skilled technical workforce for AI use in the scientific enterprise.

Each AI Infrastructure Hub will be organized as a flexible state or regional consortium of state and local governments, research institutions, philanthropies, and the private sector. Consortia will be responsible for all funding for new or expanded computing, data, and AI resources, whether on-premises or cloud-based. NSF will fund each Hub's consortium coordination, AI infrastructure workforce development, and faculty training and coursework development in leveraging AI for science.

Key Goals Include -

• Expand Access to Compute
• Accelerate AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery
• Develop an AI for Science Workforce

Please note: An institution may appear as a participant in at most one proposal.

Institutional Limit: One (1) as either the lead or a participant

Internal Deadline: August 18, 2026, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: November 4, 2026, 5:00pm CT

Funding Opportunities

New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship

Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people - including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers (novelists, playwrights, poets) and visual artists at work on a book project - whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

The Library is one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.

Applications Due: September 25, 2026, 5:00pm ET

DOI: Desalination and Water Purification Research Program

This program aims to increase water supplies by reducing the costs, energy requirements, and other barriers to adoption of treating impaired water for beneficial uses. This NOFO invites proposals from eligible applicants to conduct innovative laboratory and pilot-scale water treatment research.

Proposals Due: September 29, 2026, 4:00pm MT

CCTS Drug Discovery CollaboFest

Multidisciplinary teams across the CCTS Partner Network are invited to turn promising biomedical insights into testable therapeutic strategies through AI-enabled drug discovery.

Winning teams will each receive up to $20,000 in in-kind services through UAB Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC). All teams will receive a design consultation upon request and must include at least one co-investigator from the CCTS Hub (UAB) or Partner Network institution.

Proposals Due: September 30, 2026

Simons Foundation

Solar Radiation Management (SRM)

This award supports an international collaborative research program designed to fill fundamental scientific knowledge gaps relevant to SRM, an emerging collection of approaches, including stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), marine cloud brightening (MCB) and cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), designed to modify the Earth’s radiative balance and cool the planet.

LOIs Due: October 6, 2026, 12:00noon ET

Collaborations in Mathematics & the Physical Sciences

The aim of this program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The project should address a mathematical or theoretical topic of fundamental scientific importance, where a significant, new development creates a novel area for exploration or provides a new direction for progress in an established field. The project should have clearly defined initial activities and goals by which progress and success can be measured. The project should involve outstanding researchers in a range of career stages.

LOIs Due: October 29, 2026, 12:00noon ET

CDMRP: Parkinson's Research Program

Early Investigator Research Award

This award supports Parkinson’s disease (PD) research for investigators in the early stages of their careers. The FY26 EIRA offers two funding levels, which align to the research career stage of the Principal Investigator:

• Funding Level 1 applications are intended to support postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, or equivalent. Applications must include at least one mentor who has experience in PD research and mentoring as demonstrated by a record of active funding, recent publications, and successful mentorship;
• Funding Level 2 applications are intended to support early-career, independent investigators within 10 years of advanced degree or residency training completion, or equivalent. Applications do not require a mentor.

Investigator-Initiated Research Award 

This program supports highly rigorous, multidisciplinary, high-impact research projects that have the potential to make an important contribution to Parkinson’s disease (PD) research.

Focus Areas:

• Understanding how Parkinson’s disease biological and clinical heterogeneity impacts disease presentation, clinical course and therapeutic outcomes, from prodromal to late stage Parkinson’s disease.
• Development and characterization of in vitro model systems that approximate in vivo cellular and system complexity.
• Biological mechanisms or biomarkers, such as clinical, fluid, imaging, tissue, and devices, of unmet medical needs that could lead to the development of treatments for PD. Applications can utilize laboratory models through to human participants.
• Interventions that address unmet medical needs of PD that include both clinical and preclinical models.

Pre-applications for Both Programs Due: October 23, 2026, 5:00pm ET

Hinrich Foundation: Grants in Trade Research

The Hinrich Foundation supports trade research projects that advance the understanding of global trade issues and support policy development. The Foundation’s international trade research program promotes research across trade-related sectors, with priority areas listed in order: trade governance, the geopolitics of trade, foreign direct investment, global supply chain resilience and security, digital trade, innovation, and technology, trade and environmental sustainability, trade workforce and education, industrial competitiveness and economic development, natural resources in trade, and trade logistics and services.



 Applications Due: October 31, 2026

NASA and SciENcv

Pursuant to Grant Information Circular 26‑02, NASA now has the capability complete required disclosure forms (biographical sketches/current and pending) via SciENcv. The schedule is as follows:

1. June 25 – August 31, 2026: Applicants have the option to submit disclosure forms via either: 
   a. Word fillable forms downloaded from the GOM website or 
   b.SciENcv-generated forms
   
2. Effective September 1, 2026: NASA will only accept the NASA-specific, SciENcv-developed forms. Word-based forms will no longer be accepted.

CCTS Mock Study Sessions
Be the Reviewer

August 18 &19, 2026

1:00pm - 2:30 pm

via Zoom


Ready to strengthen your grant-writing skills? These sessions allow participants to score a previously submitted grant using NIH criteria and to explore how reviewers shape critiques.

• K Grant Review: August 18
• R01 Grant Review: August 19

Register Here by August 11.

USDA-ARS Research Meeting

August 26, 2026

9:00am -11:00am

Melton Student Center, Room 2222

USDA-ARS Acting Director of the Southeast Area, Dr. Bhinu Pillai, and Dr. Phillip Owens  will meet with USDA-ARS funded researchers and administrators from across Auburn to share information about ARS funding, administration pressure to ensure compliance with award Terms and Conditions, and Congressional and Administration intent for the funds Auburn receives. 

Dr. Owens will also discuss the importance of the Form 115 Manuscript Review Process and will address any other specific issues AU researchers might have during a Q&A session.

Registration not required.

Hanover Research Webinars

AI in Grant Prospecting & Development

Thursday, August 27, 2026

11:00am CT

AI is rapidly changing the way organizations identify and pursue grant funding, offering tools that can save time and enhance your strategy if used thoughtfully. This session provides an overview of key areas where AI can be leveraged in the grant prospecting and proposal development process.​

Register Here.

• 2026 Calendar of Webinars
• Recently Uploaded to the Archives: Grantseeking for Teaching-Centered Insititutions

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available after October 19


Auburn University has partnered with Hanover Research for a number of grant development solutions including Pre-proposal Support; Proposal Development; and Capacity Building. Hanover's full-service grant development solutions are available to set goals, build strategies to achieve key grant-seeking objectives, and develop grant proposals that are well-planned, researched, and written. 

For information regarding Hanover’s core capabilities and project timelines, click here. If you are interested in a slot in the queue, please e-mail Christine Cline.

Hanover GLC Modules for NIH, NSF-CAREER & Grant Development


The Hanover Research Grants Learning Center (GLC) on-demand grant development training portal offers faculty enrollees the unique opportunity to receive targeted training through self-paced, interactive modules with step-by-step guidance and templates for prospective applicants to develop compelling proposals. In addition to NIH, NSF-CAREER and Non-Federal funders, AU faculty now have access to a variety of new modules on grant seeking, development and revisions.

Auburn faculty interested in signing up for this training should contact Christine Cline for registration information.

Free CITI Training Modules

Auburn subscribes to several training modules via the CITI Program website that may be of interest to researchers and research administrators. Each module is self-paced and can be finished in one or multiple sessions. Click on the link above to read descriptions.



• Essentials of Grant Proposal Development
• Essentials of Research Administration