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.

2026 Pew Biomedical Scholars



Pew Biomedical candidates should demonstrate outstanding promise as contributors in science relevant to human health. Strong proposals will incorporate particularly creative and pioneering approaches to basic, translational, and applied biomedical research. Ideas with the potential to produce an unusually high impact are encouraged. Candidates whose work is based on biomedical principles but who bring in concepts and theories from more diverse fields are encouraged to apply.

Candidates must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:

• Hold a doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine, or a related field, including engineering or the physical sciences.
• As of Sept. 3, 2025, run an independent lab and hold a full-time appointment at the rank of assistant professor. (Appointments such as research assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor, assistant professor research track, visiting professor, or instructor are not eligible).
• Must not have been appointed as an assistant professor at any institution prior to June 11, 2021, whether or not such an appointment was on a tenure track. Time spent in clinical internships, residencies, in work toward board certification, or on parental leave does not count as part of this four-year limit. Candidates who need an exception on the four-year limit should contact Pew’s program office to ensure that application reviewers are aware an exception has been given.
• May apply to the program a maximum of two times. All applicants must be nominated by their institution and must complete the 2026 online application.
• If applicants have appointments at more than one eligible nominating institution or affiliate, they may not reapply in a subsequent year from a different nominating entity.
• May not be nominated for the Pew Scholars Program and the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research in the same year.

Institutional Limit: 1 Nomination

Internal Deadline: April 1, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: May 14, 2025, 5:00pm CT

NSF: EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program

The NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) provides an opportunity for applicants who received the distinction of GRFP Honorable Mention no more than three years before the proposal due date to be named NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellows and obtain financial support for their graduate education at an institution in an EPSCoR jurisdiction. EGFP aims to enhance the capacity and competitiveness of EPSCoR jurisdictions by providing funding to graduate degree-awarding institutions to support NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellows as they pursue graduate degrees in the disciplines specified by the NSF Directorates and Office that are participating in the EGFP funding program. Fellows may pursue degrees in field that differ from the field or sub-field of study that the GRFP Honorable Mention recipients previously listed in their GRFP application.

Institutions receiving awards through this solicitation will be required to use the NSF Education and Training Application (ETAP) system to recruit prospective Fellows. Institutions may recruit potential Fellows from the pool of highly qualified individuals who received Honorable Mention recognition from the NSF GRFP no more than three years prior to the proposal submission deadline.

Institutional Limit: 1 Application

Internal Deadline: April 3, 2025, 4:45pm

Funder Deadline: June 2, 2025, 5:00pm CT

Team Science Spring Event on Stress Science

April 8, 2025

11:00am - 3:00pm

Auburn Alumni Center

This Team Science event will be a forum for faculty to develop interdisciplinary collaborations that advance stress research, enhance stress education, and strengthen stress management efforts on campus and in the community.

• Networking & Collaboration Opportunities
• Lunch Provided

Register to help shape the discussion and facilitate research collaborations!

Registration closes March 21!

Creative Collisions Lunch Workshop

Where Creative Scholarship and Scientific Research Converge

April 22, 2025

11:30am - 1:00pm

The Auburn Alumni Center

Faculty are invited to the inaugural Creative Collisions lunch workshop - a collaboration between Creative Showcase and the Team Science Series, sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development. This lunch event will foster cross-disciplinary connections and spark unexpected research collaborations.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore new partnerships and innovative ideas!

Registration Details And More Event Information to Come!

Biggio Center: Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program

The purpose of the Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program is to encourage enhancement of teaching and learning through financial support of selected projects. Projects or travel should directly benefit the instructor, students, and the University’s overall teaching program.

Tenured/tenure-track faculty from any discipline, or faculty from the Lecturer or Clinician title series with appointments continuing through academic year 2025-2026, may apply for a Breeden Endowed Grant. Preference will be given to early career, pre-tenured faculty. Proposals for collaborative projects involving multiple faculty and departments are encouraged.

Application Deadline: March 24, 2025, 4:45pm

Funding Opportunities

FamilieSCN2A Foundation: Research Grants for SCN2A-Related Epilepsy and Autism Disorders

This funding is for early career investigators who propose innovative projects that will advance development of therapeutic treatments for SCN2A-related disorders (SRDs). The program is designed to facilitate future funding from government, industry, and other funding sources.

Priority will be given to proposals that investigate the efficacy of candidate therapeutic

treatments, or that develop outcome measures or biomarkers for use in clinical trials.

Research that could potentially lead to therapeutic treatments by advancing understanding of cellular, molecular, genetic, and systems-level mechanisms of SCN2A-related disorders, are also of great interest.

Eligibblity is restricted to 1) A postdoctoral fellow 2) A clinical resident specializing in any area applicable to SRDs 3) A newly appointed faculty member within 1-3 years of having been appointed to their first tenure-track faculty position.

LOIs Due: April 1, 2025, 11:59pm ET

American Psychological Foundation Grants

Multiple opportunities available including the following:

APF Visionary Grants

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas:

• applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged);
• preventing violence;
• understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity);
• understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and socioeconomic status);
• furthering racial equity

Applications Due: April 3, 2025

John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED)

The John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant supports early career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children.

The John and Polly Sparks Foundation partnered with APF to empower early career psychologists to produce scientifically-based research and programs that could provide models for broad-based applications across the country.

Applications Due: April 24, 2025

Volvo: Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship

This scholarship prioritizes contributions that have clear, transformative outputs and contribute to measurable changes in the fields of sustainable transport and energy efficiency. Proposals relating to different aspects of policy dialogue are welcome, including data collection and quality, diagnosis through data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), policy analysis and evaluation, and interdisciplinary and international comparative analysis.

The scholarship is open to young researchers, defined as someone with five or fewer years of experience since their last academic degree (Master’s or Ph.D.) and who has not yet turned 36 years by the expression of interest submission deadline (born after April 15, 1989).

Expression of Interest Due: April 15, 2025

Spencer Foundation: Small Research Grants of Education

The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

Applications Due: April 16, 2025, 12:00noon CT

National Geographic Society: Spatial Thinking - Inspiring Action through Place-Based Solutions

This funding opportunity supports projects that identify a challenge related to a specific place and its unique conditions and leverages an educational solution using spatial thinking to enable people to act on behalf of our planet and its people.

Particularly of interest are projects that make connections across disciplines to identify creative solutions through interdisciplinary methods, use experiential learning, and define spatial thinking broadly, which could include tools such as geospatial technologies, maps, data, inquiry-based learning, or innovative technologies or tools (on the low to high tech spectrum) to engage learners (of any age, in any setting) in framing and visualizing data to develop solutions to challenges.

All topics related to our focus areas – Ocean, Land, Wildlife, Human Histories and Cultures, Planetary Health, and Space – are encouraged and will be considered. Additionally, a portion of the grant awards within this funding opportunity is for project ideas related to freshwater in a specific place.

Pre-applications Due: May 5, 2025, 11:59pm ET

NIH: Instrumentation Grant Programs

Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

The objective of the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program is to make available to institutions high-priced research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical and biobehavioral research. The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

This funding opportunity is to continue the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program administered by ORIP. The objective of the Program is to make available to institutions high-end research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, and clinical biomedical or biobehavioral research. The HEI program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, leading-edge, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently.

Applications for Both Programs Due: June 2, 2025, 5:00pm CT

National Academies Gulf Research Program’s Early-Career Research Fellowship

Environmental Protection and Stewardship track

Advance scientific knowledge in the design, implementation and evaluation of effective nature-based solutions (NbS) that enhance ecosystem health and community resilience to extreme weather in the Gulf region, while also addressing a multiplicity of other co-benefits (such as water and air quality, biodiversity, and climate adaptation.)

Education Research track

goal focuses on contributing to the advancement of science, STEM and environmental education in the Gulf region or Alaska by considering the impacts of establishing sense of place* in formal or informal learning environments.

Applications Due: June 18, 2025, 5:00pm ET

Application Q & A Office Hours

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

9:00am - 10:00am CT

Important Updates

Free CITI Webinar: AI in Research Design

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

1:00pm CT 

This webinar will explore the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in enhancing research design, providing participants with insights and examples in areas such as:

- Optimizing research questions, hypotheses, and objectives.

- Enhancing data collection and analysis plans

- Including ethical considerations

Register Here

Hanover Research Webinars

Artificial Intelligence Policies Among Federal Grantmakers

Thursday, March 27, 2025

11:00am CT

Many federal funders have issued policies to encourage the appropriate use of AI, or limit its usage in federal proposals. This session will cover those major federal policies, enabling faculty to ensure compliance with new guidance on the use of AI.

Register Here.

• Upcoming Webinars in 2025
• Recently posted to the archives: Keys to a Competitive NSF Career Proposal 

AU 2025 Research Symposium

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Melton Student Center

Undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in a multitude of disciplines will present their research and scholarly discoveries through oral and poster presentations.

16th Annual Boshell Research Day

April 4, 2025

Auburn-Opelika Marriott Resort at Grand National

This event will bring together experts from around the United States to present current topics related to diabetes and the role of obesity in its development.

Deadline for abstract submission is March 21, 2025.

Register Here.

CCTS: COERE Methods Symposium

Thursday, April 10, 2025

9:00am - 3:00pm 

UAB School of Nursing, Birmingham

The overarching goal of the Methods Symposium is to provide a general overview and framework for recent developments and novel directions in a health services research (HSR) methodological area. The Symposium is intended for an interdisciplinary and interprofessional HSR audience across the career arc, from students to faculty at all ranks, and includes presentations from national thought leaders in a timely thematic methodological area, culminating with the Meredith Kilgore Endowed Lectureship sponsored by the UAB School of Public Health. 

Register Here.

Hanover Research Queue Proposal Review Availability

Slots available March 21 - May 9 and after June 24

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.

In the March Issue:

• Topics of Interest URLs

• March 2025 Select List of Humanities, HSS, and Arts Opportunities & News

• NIH Funding News

• NSF Funding News

• What Should I Do About My NSF CAREER Application?

• Other Funding News

• Academic Peer Review in the Humanities

• The Advantages of Coordinated Team Reviews of Proposal Drafts

• Research Grant Writing Web Resources

• Agency News, Reports, Workshops & Roadmaps

• New Funding Opportunities

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