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.

NEH: Humanities Research Centers on AI

The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions. 

A center supports collaboration among scholars to explore a specific topic through research, as well as spreading knowledge about that research through educational or outreach activities. Centers may include scholars from diverse disciplines, but must be focused on asking humanities questions and should be led by humanists. Scholars may come from one or more institutions. NEH welcomes international collaboration, but scholars at U.S. institutions must oversee and set the agenda for the center.

Institutional Limit: One (1) Proposal

Internal Deadline: August 6, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: October 1, 2025, 11:59pm ET

W.M. Keck Foundation Research Program

The W. M. Keck Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting Medical Research and Science & Engineering projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. Projects should:

• Focus on important and emerging areas of research
• Have potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation, or methodologies
• Be innovative, distinctive, and interdisciplinary
• Demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches or challenge the prevailing paradigm
• Have potential for transformative impact such as the founding of a new field of research, enabling of new observations, or altering perception of a previously intractable problem
• Fall outside the mission of public funding agencies

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Evan Havard with University Foundation/Corporate Relations.

Institutional Limit: One (1) Proposal

Internal Deadline: August 6, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: November 3, 2025, 4:30pm PT

Funding Opportunities

CCTS: Statistical and Analytic Methods Development

The CCTS seeks applications proposing the development of novel statistical and computational approaches and related methodologic innovations that bridge the gap between data and clinical application. Projects must rely on extant data, rather than generating new data.

Applications Due: August 25, 2025, 5:00pm CT

NSF TIP: Translation to Practice

The Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) program focuses on real-world applications of all areas of Science, Technology , Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Proposers can tailor their research and/or innovation activities to solve specific problems faced by consumers, industries, and/or governments. Successful outcomes of NSF TTP projects are varied and may include, but are not limited to accelerated product, process or service maturation; open-source projects; standards setting; patents; the realization of pre-commercial or commercial products, processes or services; and startup or small business formation.

NSF TTP-Translate (NSF TTP-T) starts with use-inspired research and initial translational activities and further matures the idea(s), iterates and improves the solution(s), and lowers the barrier(s) to effective translation of research from lab to practice.

NSF TTP-Partner (NSF TTP-P) supports translational efforts that demand one or more partnerships for technology development and deployment. Strategic partnerships with stakeholders beyond U.S. institutions of higher education are essential ingredients for success and may include industry partners, government entities at all levels, philanthropies, international organizations, or other groups associated with large scale productization and distribution.

NSF TTP-Explore (NSF TTP-E) is a pilot track likely to be the first step for researchers seeking to translate their basic research to practice. TT-E proposers must have an active, eligible, NSF research award, as it is designed to encourage current awardees to pursue expanding their research for potential societal impact. 

TTP-T & TTP-P Proposals Due: September 16, 2025 & January 20, 2026, 5:00pm CT TTP-E Proposals Due Anytime

PCORI: Engagement Awards

The Engagement Award Program supports PCORI’s goal to increase engagement in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER)—that is, the meaningful involvement of patients, caregivers, clinicians and other healthcare stakeholders throughout the research process. There are three awards:

Capacity Building: These awards support organizations with strong ties to patients, caregivers, clinicians and other stakeholders who have a connection to a research focus area and seek to better equip stakeholders to engage as partners in patient-centered CER. These projects will focus on building the knowledge, competencies and abilities of their community to be meaningful partners with researchers throughout the research process.

Dissemination: This opportunity aims to support projects that help organizations and communities actively communicate pertinent PCORI-funded research findings to their specific audiences, including patients, clinicians, communities and others, in ways that will command their attention and interest and encourage use of this information in their healthcare decision making.

Convening Support: This funding opportunity seeks to fund projects that support patients, families, caregivers and the broader health and healthcare community to hold convenings, meetings and conferences that: 1. Promote focused discussion of patient-centered CER. 2. Share patient-centered CER engagement methods. 3. Disseminate PCORI-funded research results. 4. Plan for future patient-centered CER (with the exception that the funds cannot be used to develop funding proposals, grant applications or similar requests for project or research funding.).

LOIs for All Awards Due: September 29, 2025, 5:00pm ET

American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants

The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. agriculture, arts, business, education, engineering, health, law, sciences, and social sciences, fostering multidisciplinary exploration and innovation.

Applications Due: October 1, 2025 & December 1, 2025

Simons Foundation: Targeted Grants to Institutes - Strengthening Global Networks in Theoretical Sciences

The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. The aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.

Applications Due: October 2, 2025, 12:00 noon ET

National Academy of Sciences Awards

The National Academy of Sciences Awards Program recognizes outstanding contributions to science and encourages innovative research. Unless otherwise specified, preference is given to early-career scientists and those whose work hasn’t been recognized by other large prizes or awards. The Academy is accepting nominations for the following awards:

Arthur Day Prize and Lectureship (physics of the Earth)

Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

James Craig Watson Medal (astronomy)

Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal (medical sciences)

John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (social sciences excluding economics)

Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics

Michael and Sheila Held Prize (computer science, specifically combinatorial/discrete optimization)

NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science (artificial intelligence)

NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

NAS Award in Molecular Biology (early-career researchers)

NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences

Pradel Research Award (neuroscience)

Troland Research Awards (early-career researchers)

Nominations Due: October 6, 2025, 11:59pm ET

Important Updates

New NIH Policy: AI

NIH has released a new policy to target excessive and AI generated grant application submissions. The "Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications" policy goes into effect Sept. 25, 2025 and

• prohibits applications that were substantially developed with AI
• opens the door to research misconduct investigations for suspected AI use (if identified post award)
• limits PIs to 6 new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications for all council rounds in a calendar year (single or MPI) - exceptions for T and R13 applications.

Click here for more information: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-132.html.

NSF Research Security Training Update

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced research security training for "covered individuals" will need to be completed prior to submission of all proposals as of October 10, 2025.

Other key policy changes aimed at safeguarding the integrity of NSF-supported research include:

• Research Security Assessment and Required Recipient Documentation (Effective October 10, 2025)
• Revised Timelines for Foreign Financial Disclosures (In Effect)
• Annual Certification Requirement Regarding Prohibition on Participation in Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (In Effect)
• Prohibition on Hosting Confucius Institutes (Effective October 10)

More information on these policy changes and Research Security Training can be found here: NSF Important Notice to Awardee Organizations

It is anticipated that additional federal agencies will implement these training requirements in the fall of 2025 and details of those will be shared upon receipt.

CITI Research Security Training Available for DOE Proposals

Effective May 1, 2025, the DOE requires all “covered individuals" - i.e. ones who contributes in a substantive, meaningful way to the development or execution

of the scope of work of a DOE proposed project - to complete research security training prior to proposal submission.

To fulfill this requirement, Auburn University has adopted the CITI Program’s Research Security Training (Combined) course. The four-module training takes approximately one hour and covers an introduction to research security, the importance of disclosure, risk mitigation and management, and international collaboration. The training is valid for one year from the date of completion and a refresher course is required annually.

Training can be accessed through the CITI website located on the Research Compliance webpage. Please login to CITI with the AU Single Sign On.

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This webinar from Advanced Technology International (ATI) will guide participants through the essential steps of identifying contract opportunities, understanding agency needs, and positioning your company to win. Topics covered include:

• An overview of how the federal contracting process works 

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Hanover Research Webinars

Storytelling in Grantwriting, Part II: The Plot Thickens

Thursday, July 31, 2025

11:00am CT

This sequel will dive deeper into the art of storytelling as it relates to the grant writing process, providing targeted strategies for enhancing your proposals by leveraging narrative frameworks and storytelling concepts to capture the imagination of your grant’s reviewers.

Register Here.

• Upcoming Webinars in 2025
• Recently posted to the archives: Federal Funding Priorities of 2026

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available 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.

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

NSF Resource Page: Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

NSF has a website dedicated to providing information regarding recent executive orders and their impact on the U.S. National Science Foundation community. The page serves to collect queries and answer frequently asked questions about how the agency is following recent Executive Orders. It is updated regularly as new information becomes available.

Check it out here.

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.