Our editorial team is keeping abreast of the current status of federally funded opportunities. Such opportunities advertised here, to our knowledge at time of publication, are active. However, please continue to check solicitation websites for updates to U.S. Government opportunities of interest.

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.

Found a Limited Submission opportunity that interests you?

If so, please 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.

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant

This opportunity supports early stage investigators in basic biomedical research aimed at enhancing understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of diseases, with potential impacts on disease prevention and medical education.

The funds are designed to provide tenure track faculty members in their first to fourth year, at American Institutions, who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, start-up support to move their project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained. Applicants with current R01 funding should not apply.

Institutional Limit: One (1) Proposal

 Internal Deadline: June 20, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: August 1, 2025

NSF: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship 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. The goals of the program are to

• Catalyze and advance cutting-edge interdisciplinary or convergent research in high priority areas;
• Increase the capacity of U.S. graduate programs to produce diverse cohorts of interdisciplinary STEM professionals with technical and transferable professional skills for a range of research and research-related careers within and outside academia; and
• Develop innovative approaches and knowledge that will promote transformative improvements in graduate education.

All interdisciplinary or convergent research themes should align with NSF or other national STEM research priority areas, for example as indicated in the NSF Strategic Plan and NSF Annual Budget Request to Congress, and have high potential to develop novel, innovative practices in graduate education. Proposers should describe the importance of the NRT project's thematic focus to the nation and the particular need to train students for a variety of careers in that thematic area.

Institutional Limit: Two (2) Proposals (as lead or collaborative non-lead)

Internal Deadline: June 23, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: September 8, 2025, 5:00pm CT

Funding Opportunities

Philip A. Morris Fund for the Design Arts

The Phillip Morris Fund champions good design for the enrichment of the

Greater Birmingham area. This fund seeks to provide resources to support the design arts and the role that the design arts play in building thriving communities. Broadly stated, “design arts” include but are not limited to

• Urban planning

• Design and the built environment

• Architecture

• Graphic arts and graphic design

• Landscape planning and design

Applications Due: June 30, 2025, 11:59pm CT

NEH: Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary

Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary support projects that focus on public interpretation of the Founding Era and the lasting impact of the people and events that propelled the Revolution. Supported activities must be designed to connect audiences to the ideas of the American Revolution through the synthesis of scholarship from fields in the humanities and may include:

• Collaborating with scholars and interpretive consultants to develop new interpretive plans
• Implementing tours, exhibitions, or other public-facing interpretive programs
• Assessing the opportunities presented by your collections and other resources to tell compelling stories of the legacy of the Declaration of Independence
• Training staff and volunteers in new methods and best practices for public interpretation

July 9, 2025, 11:59pm ET



NEH: Public Impact Scholars

The Public Scholars program offers grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to the creation and publication of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. Writers with or without an academic affiliation may apply. The program encourages non-academic writers to deepen their engagement with the humanities by strengthening the research underlying their books, and it encourages academic writers in the humanities to communicate the significance of their research to the broadest possible range of readers.

Applications Due: August 6, 2025, 11:59pm ET

NSF: The Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence Program

This program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, across a wide range of domains at one or more levels of analysis, including molecular and cellular mechanisms; brain systems; cognitive, affective and behavioral processes; and social and cultural influences. 

The program also supports research on augmented intelligence that clearly articulates principled ways in which human approaches to learning and related processes, such as in design, complex decision-making and problem-solving, can be improved through interactions with others or through the use of artificial intelligence in technology.

Proposals Due: August 6, 2025, 5:00pm CT

John Templeton Foundation Grants

This Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in a variety of funding areas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity.

Funding Areas:

• Individual Freedom & Free Markets
• Life Sciences
• Mathematical & Physical Sciences
• Public Engagement
• Character Virtue Development
• Religion, Science, and Society

Online Funding Inquiry Deadline: August 15, 2025, 11:59pm EDT

National Archives Historical Publications & Records Commission: Archival Projects

The NHPRC seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. It welcomes projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day. The Commission encourages projects focused on collections of America’s early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation’s legal history. 

Projects may preserve and process historical records to:

• Arrange or re-house and describe collections
• Convert existing description for online access
• Create new online Finding Aids to collections
• Digitize historical records collections and make them freely available online

Proposal Drafts Due: August 15, 2025

NSF: The Research on Research Security

The Research on Research Security (RoRS) program seeks to advance the understanding of the full scope, potential, challenges, and nature of the research on research security field through scholarly evidence. RoRS funds will foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and proposers should address how they will leverage the range of expertise, theories, and methods of the team to engage in evidence-based research on research security. Proposers are encouraged to identify collaborators across a wide range of sectors, and to consider projects in collaboration with international partners that share U.S. concerns with research security, when appropriate.

RoRS encourages the following types of proposals to help build the emerging field of research on research security:

• Conferences and Workshops
• Planning Grants
• Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER)

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Important Updates

Hanover Research Webinars

Federal Funding Priorities in FY2026

Thursday, June 26, 2025

11:00am CT

In this webinar, Hanover will review key insights from our analysis of the FY 2026 budget request, providing information on major federal agency priorities along with details of individual grant programs or funding areas that may be impacted by the proposed changes.

Register Here.

• Upcoming Webinars in 2025
• Recently posted to the archives: Strategies for Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Polymers for Advanced Technologies Symposium: Health, Energy, and Electronics

June 30, 2025

Bryant Conference Center

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

The UA Department of Translational Science and Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences is hosting a one-day free symposium on polymers for advanced technologies, with a special focus on health, energy, and electronics. This event will feature prominent experts from these fields who will share their cutting-edge knowledge and insights.

Capacity is limited to 200 participants. Email ejdavis6@ua.edu to claim your spot.

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available July 16 - August 1 and after August 18

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 Tony Ventimiglia.

Council on Government Relations (COGR) Resource Page

This resource page offers continually updated information concerning the 2025 Administration Transition in regards to federal funding.

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 and NSF-CAREER modules, 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.

Research Development and Grantwriting Newsletter

This online publication is a great source for current STEM and Humanities funding opportunities, tips and resources. Published by Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, access is available only for Auburn University faculty, staff and students with a valid user ID.

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

The federal funding landscape is changing daily, necessitating extra due diligence on the part of funding seekers. When perusing a solicitation, 1) make sure you are viewing the latest version, 2) read all notes in the headers and margins, and 3) follow provided links to ensure a solicitation is still active and accepting applications.