The Office of Research Development assists members of the JMU community with finding external funding for their research, scholarship, creative works, and other projects. Please use the resources below and/or submit a consultation request for assistance.
SPIN Database
REDI has purchased a subscription to SPIN by InfoEd Global, which provides JMU faculty, staff, and students with access to a comprehensive of current funding opportunities, as well as the ability to set up automatic email notifications.
If you are on campus, no account is needed to search. However, an account is necessary to save searches and filters, set up email notifications, and to search from off-campus locations. To set up an account, please click "Login" in the upper right corner, and then "Need to create a new profile". Accounts are verified by our local SPIN administrator.
SPIN Database: Tips & Tricks Video
Government Grants
The US Federal Government and the state of Virginia funds a variety of research.
Grants.gov collects active funding opportunities from US grant-making agencies. This is the most comprehensive resource for finding currently available government grants (including at the state and local levels).
Here are selected links for grants from common funding agencies:
- Administration for Community Living
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Department of Defense- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- Department of Defense MINERVA (social sciences)
- Department of Education (consider searching Institute of Education Science specifically)
- Department of Energy (consider the Office of Science specifically)
- Department of Labor- Employment and Training Administration
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- NASA (ROSES)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation (includes social sciences)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Consider signing up for email notifications from your preferred funding agency.
Sam.gov is collects a variety of contracts available through US federal agencies. Note that contracts are generally more specific and focused than grants.
FederalRegister.gov includes federal solicitations, including requests for information (RFI). These can allow you shape the direction of future federal funding opportunities and federal investment in your field.
Federal grants are also indexed in Federal Grants Wire, which is free to use but not a government-run website. Similarly, government contracts are indexed at GovWin; however this resource is not free to use.
ORD Grants Calendars & Rolling Submissions
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
Hearst Foundation
- Culture (discuss with OSP to ensure eligibility to apply)
Henry Luce Foundation
- American Art Program Responsive Grants
- Asia Program Responsive Grants
- Indigenous Knowledge Program Responsive Grants
- See also the related fellowship program
Foundation for Arts Initiatives
Delmas Foundation
- For organizations (scroll to appropriate program):
- Venetian Program
- Venetian Research Program for scholars
Association for Asian Studies
- Northeast Asia Council Distinguished Speakers Bureau: Funding to bring scholars on Japan or Korea for talks. Funds are available on a rolling 6-month basis.
The Office of Research Development does not generally track artistic residency programs; however, the following databases may be of use:
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Researchers may also be interested in the Social Sciences calendar.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
MSI (Marketing Science Institute) at the ARF (Advertising Research Foundation)
IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) Research Foundation
FINRA Investor Education Foundation
HUD
- Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships (Until June 30th, 2025)
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund:
Sloan Foundation:
- Economics Program (Note that unlike other Sloan Foundation programs, this program does not warn researchers that unsolicited letters of intent are unlikely to be considered.)
Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation (funds innovative economic education programs)
Wells Fargo Community Giving (focuses on financial health, housing affordability, small business growth, and sustainability)
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
Hearst Foundation
- Education (discuss with OSP to ensure eligibility to apply)
DEVCOM (Army Research Laboratory)
- Broad Agency Announcements include funding opportunities in the life and physical sciences, mathematics, education, and social sciences.
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund:
Hearst Foundation
- Health (discuss with OSP to ensure eligibility to apply)
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
Delmas Foundation
- For organizations (scroll to appropriate program):
- Humanities Program
- Research Libraries Program
- Venetian Program
- Venetian Research Program for scholars
Henry Luce Foundation
- Religion and Theology Program Responsive Grants
- Asia Program Responsive Grants
- Indigenous Knowledge Program Responsive Grants
- See also the related fellowship program
- Democracy, Ethics, and Public Trust Program Responsive Grants
Virginia Humanities
- Sponsorships for events with a humanities focus
Consult with OSP to ensure JMU is currently eligible before preparing an application.
American Philosophical Society
- Indigenous Community Research Fund: This program is designed primarily for Indigenous community members, elders, teachers, knowledge keepers, tribal officials, traditional leaders, museum and archive professionals, and independent scholars. Applicants do not need to have a specific academic background or an academic affiliation to apply, and any Indigenous community whose cultural heritage is represented in the APS's Library & Museum collections is encouraged to apply.
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
- Small Project Grants: Please note the unusual scope of these grants.
John Carter Brown Library
- John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities: This fellowship supports community-prioritized and community-based research that would benefit from research time in the JCB’s collections, that could be undertaken, for example, by Native or Indigenous scholars, Elders, Tribal librarians or archivists, and knowledge keepers.
Association for Asian Studies
- Northeast Asia Council Distinguished Speakers Bureau: Funding to bring scholars on Japan or Korea for talks. Funds are available on a rolling 6-month basis.
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
NSF Biology
- NSF Behavioral Systems
- NSF Cellular Dynamics and Function
- NSF Developmental Systems
- NSF Ecosystem Science Cluster
- NSF Enabling Descovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- NSF Evolutionary Processes Cluster
- NSF Genetic Mechanisms
- NSF Infrastructure for Biological Research (Innovation)
- NSF Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- NSF Molecular Biophysics
- NSF Neural Systems
- NSF Physiological and Structural Systems (PSS)
- NSF Plant Biotic Interactions
- NSF Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- NSF Population and Community Ecology Cluster
- NSF Systematics and Biodiversity Science Cluster (SBS)
- NSF Systems and Synthetic Biology
NSF Chemistry
- NSF Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs: No Deadline Pilot
Applies to: Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP), Chemical Structure and Dynamics (CSD), and Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods (CTMC) programs
NSF Materials Science
NSF Geosciences
- NSF Atmosphere Cluster (AGS-AC)
- NSF Geospace Cluster (AGS-GC)
- NSF Infrastructure Cluster (AGS-IC)
- NSF Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV)
- NSF Life and Environments Through Time (LET)
- NSF Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE)
- NSF Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ)
NSF Sustainability
- Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing, Type III projects
- Environmental Sustainability
- Environmental Engineering
Department of Energy
FY 2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
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NASA
NASA announces upcoming programs annually in mid-February in ROSES. Some of these have rolling submissions that are accepted throughout the next year. In ROSES-2024, these programs have rolling deadlines:
- Heliophysics Innovation in Technology and Science
- Emerging Worlds
- Solar System Workings
- Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools
- Exobiology
- Solar System Observations
- Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations
- Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples
- Here to Observe
- Supplements for Open-Source Science
- High Priority Open-Source Science
- MOSAICS Seed Funding
- Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science
DEVCOM (Army Research Laboratory)
- Broad Agency Announcements include funding opportunities in the life and physical sciences, mathematics, education, and social sciences.
Simons Foundation
Comonwealth Cyber Initiative
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund:
Waste Management Community Impact (focuses include environmental stewardship, sustainability education, and environmental justice)
Wells Fargo Community Giving (one focus is sustainability)
General Motors Corporate Giving (focuses on STEM education & transportation; applications accepted January through September)
The Office of Research Development tracks large and/or recurring grants that may be of interest to the JMU research community. If you know of a grant that should be added, please notify researchdevelopment@jmu.edu.
Researchers may also be interested in the Business, Hospitality, and Sports Management calendar, particularly the economics-related funding opportunities.
Grants with rolling submissions for which proposals can be submitted any time:
NSF
American Psychological Foundation
- Direct Action Visionary Grants: LoIs accepted on a rolling basis, evaluation deadlines of January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31.
DEVCOM (Army Research Laboratory)
- Broad Agency Announcements include funding opportunities in the life and physical sciences, mathematics, education, and social sciences.
Henry Luce Foundation
- Asia Program Responsive Grants
- Indigenous Knowledge Program Responsive Grants
- See also the related fellowship program
- Democracy, Ethics, and Public Trust Program Responsive Grants
HUD
- Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships (Until June 30th, 2025)
American Philosophical Society
- Indigenous Community Research Fund: This program is designed primarily for Indigenous community members, elders, teachers, knowledge keepers, tribal officials, traditional leaders, museum and archive professionals, and independent scholars. Applicants do not need to have a specific academic background or an academic affiliation to apply, and any Indigenous community whose cultural heritage is represented in the APS's Library & Museum collections is encouraged to apply.
Early Career Opportunities
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
See list here including:
- Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music
Ph.D. holders who received their degree within the last 5 years; for research in the Gennadius Library for the full academic year. The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music supports research that focuses on the cultural history of music in the Mediterranean world broadly defined. - Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture
Ph.D. holders who received their degree within the last 5 years; for research in the Gennadius Library for the full academic year. The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to the present.
Huntington Gardens
See list here including:
- The Berger Trust Future Leaders Fellowship in the History of British Art
Faculty must be in the first seven years of their appointment. - New Chaucer Society Early Career Fellowship
The New Chaucer Society, in collaboration with the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, offers annually a one-month Early Career Fellowship to support advanced research in the history, literature and culture of the time of Chaucer in the collections of The Huntington.
National Academies- Gulf Research Program
Early Career Research Fellowship
Funds research connected to the Gulf of Mexico in one of four tracks: Human Health and Community Resiliance, Offshore Energy Safety, Environmental Protection and Stewardship, and Education Research. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past 10 years.
National Science Foundation
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Open to researchers in an area NSF funds, including social sciences and education. Investigators must hold at least a 50% tenure-track appointment and not yet have tenure; also investigators are restricted to participating only three times.
Jacobs Foundation
Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers fellowships to early- and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. Fellowships are awarded to talented researchers who have received their PhDs within the past 10 years.
William T Grant Foundation
Applicants are required to be nominated by their institution and must have received their doctoral degree within seven years of submitting their application. Their focus areas are reducing inequality among young people in the US and improving the use of research evidence.
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The goal of the YI program is to help researchers launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry and gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants. Applicants must be at the rank of assistant professors or instructors. Researchers who have previously received an NIH R01 grant are not eligible.
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr Foundation
Open to tenure-track faculty members in their first to fourth year. The aim of this program is to move research projects forward to where an NIH R01 grant (or similar) can be obtained. Applicants must not have received an NIH R01 grant.
If you are in years five to eight, consider the scholars program; please scroll to the relevant section.
Open to researchers in primarily science & health fields, plus some social sciences; see link for specific funding areas and interests. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within seven years of submission and can apply a maximum of three times.
Jacobs Foundation
Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers fellowships to early- and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. Fellowships are awarded to talented researchers who have received their PhDs within the past 10 years.Klingenstein Philanthropies
Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience
This award is for researchers whose work has relevance for understanding the mechanisms underlying neurological and behavioral disorders, and that may lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders; however, they also support basic research in recognition that some of the most important contributions toward disease cures come from basic research, without an immediate understanding of their relationship to disease. Candidates must hold a tenure-track appointment and have completed their last post-doc less than four years before the application deadline.
McKnight Foundation
This award is available for neuroscientists. Applicants must hold a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor and must have served at that rank for less than five years at the application deadline (exceptions made be made for parental leave).
National Academies- Gulf Research Program
Early Career Research Fellowship
Funds research connected to the Gulf of Mexico in one of four tracks: Human Health and Community Resiliance, Offshore Energy Safety, Environmental Protection and S
National Academy of Medicine
American Academy of Nursing Fellowship
The overall purpose of the AAN Fellowship is to provide talented, early-career health science scholars in nursing with the opportunity to experience and participate in evidence-based healthcare or public health studies that improve the care and access to care of patients in domestic and global health care systems. It is offered in even years and researchers must be between four and ten years from the completion of their post-graduate work.
National Institutes of Health
- Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project in an area of science that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. An ESI has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award. - NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the award supports early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the NIH mission. - Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI)
The NIGMS (National Institute of General Medical Sciences) Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) provides support for the NIGMS-relevant program of research in an investigator's laboratory. An ESI has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award. - Researchers may want to consider K01 and K07 awards as well.
William T Grant Foundation
Applicants are required to be nominated by their institution and must have received their doctoral degree within seven years of submitting their application. Their focus areas are reducing inequality among young people in the US and improving the use of research evidence.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
See list here including:
- Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowships
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years. This supports studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year. - Constantine and George Macricostas Fellowship at the Gennadius Library
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years, with research projects focusing on the historical, political, and sociological dimensions of Eastern Orthodox religion from Late Antiquity to the present are eligible. The fields of study may include, but are not limited to religious studies, anthropology, history, philosophy, politics, law, and sociology. - Jacob Hirsch Fellowship
U.S. or Israeli citizens who are early-career scholars (Ph.D. earned within the last five years) completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece are eligible to apply. - Kathryn and Peter Yatrakis Fellowship
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years; the fellowship is for research at the Gennadius Library. - M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years. Candidates focused on Late Antique through Modern Greek Studies, including but not limited to the Byzantine, Frankish, Post-Byzantine, and Ottoman periods should demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library. - Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture
Ph.D. holders who received their degree within the last 5 years; for research in the Gennadius Library for the full academic year. The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to the present.
The Newberry Short-Term Fellowships
- Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellowship in Early Modern Studies (scroll to appropriate section)
Preference given to early career scholars.
American Chemical Society
- Petroleum Research Fund
This fund supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels.
- Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants
Applicants must be within the first three years of their appointment at the level of assistant professor. Each principal investigator must be eligible to serve as the formal, official supervisor of graduate students in graduate degree programs. The DNI grants are to be used to illustrate proof of principle or concept, to test a hypothesis, or to demonstrate feasibility of an approach. - Undergraduate New Investigator (UNI) Grants
Applicants must be within the first five years of their first appointment as a regular faculty member. Each principal investigator must be eligible to serve as the formal, official supervisor of undergraduate students in graduate degree programs. Eligibility for a UNI grant requires that a PI is in a department without a doctoral program in the United States and that the students receiving stipends for the work to be done are undergraduates (M.S.-level students can also be supported provided one or more undergraduates are also supported from this grant). - If you are not within the first five years of your first appointment, you may want to consider the Undergraduate Research (UR) grant.
- If you are changing research directions, you may want to consider the New Directions (ND) grant.
- Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) Grants
- ACS Herman Frasch Foundation Grants
Researchers in the field of agricultural chemistry whose work will be of practical benefit to the agricultural development of the United State are eligible to apply. Additionally, applicants must be tenured or tenure-track faculty within the first seven years of their first academic appointment.
American Society for Mass Spetrometry
Research awards promote the research of academic scientists within the first four years of joining the tenure track or research faculty of a North American University at the time the award is conferred.
Beckman Foundation
Beckman Young Investigator Program
This program supports research in chemical and life sciences, with a focus on the invention methods, instruments, and materials. Investigators must be within the first four years of a tenure-track appointment and must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Additionally, applicants may only apply twice.
Department of Defense
This award supports researchers in the sciences- see the call for proposal for specific areas. Researchers must be on the tenure track and either not-yet-tenured or have received tenure within the past three years. There are also limits on how much DARPA funding applicants may have previously received.
Department of Energy
Open to researchers on the tenure track but not yet tenured who have received their Ph.D. less than 12 years ago. Projects must fall within the scope of the Office of Science's eight program areas: Accelerator R&D and Production, Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Nuclear Physics.
Dreyfus Foundation
Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
This program is open to faculty who hold a full-time tenure-track appointment focused on the chemical sciences are are between their fourth and twelth years of their independent academic careers at the time of submission. This award is open only to scholars are at primarily undergraduate institutions. This award requires a nomination from the institutions, so please communicate with your AUH and OSP early.
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
This program is open to faculty who hold a full-time tenure-track appointment focused on the chemical sciences are are within the first six years of their independent academic careers at the time of submission. This award requires a nomination from the institutions, so please communicate with your AUH and OSP early.
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr Foundation
Open to tenure-track faculty members in their first to fourth year. The aim of this program is to move research projects forward to where an NIH R01 grant (or similar) can be obtained. Applicants must not have received an NIH R01 grant.
If you are in years five to eight, consider the scholars program; please scroll to the relevant section.
Open to researchers in primarily science & health fields, plus some social sciences; see link for specific funding areas and interests. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within seven years of submission and can apply a maximum of three times.
Human Frontier Science Program
This program supports basic research into fundamental biological problems. Teams must be international and all members of an Early Career grant team must be within 5 years of obtaining an independent position and must have obtained their first doctoral degree not longer than 10 years before the letter of intent submission deadline.
Jacobs Foundation
Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers fellowships to early- and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. Fellowships are awarded to talented researchers who have received their PhDs within the past 10 years.
National Academies- Gulf Research Program
Early Career Research Fellowship
Funds research connected to the Gulf of Mexico in one of four tracks: Human Health and Community Resiliance, Offshore Energy Safety, Environmental Protection and S
NASA
Not all of these are available annually. Check ROSES to see which are currently available.
- Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships in Space Astrophysics for Early Career Researchers
- Early Career Investigator Program in Earth Science
- Heliophysics Early Career Investigator Program
- Planetary Science Early Career Award
National Science Foundation
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Open to researchers in an area NSF funds, including social sciences and education. Investigators must hold at least a 50% tenure-track appointment and not yet have tenure; also investigators are restricted to participating only three times.
- Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO)
Open to pre-tenure researchers researchers who have been at the assistant professor rank for less than three years who are doing biological research.
- Computer and Information Science Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
Open to researchers in computer science, information science, computer engineeering and related fields at non-R1 academic institutions. Additionally, investigators must be in their first three years of a tenure-track, research science, or education position (and not yet have tenure). Additionally, applicants must not yet have received any federal funding as PI (serving as co-PI is allowed, as are certain graduate and post-doctoral fellowships). - Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAP-MPS)
Open to pre-tenure researchers researchers who have not previously been awarded a NSF research award (see solicitation for exceptions), and who does research in a discipline funded by the divisions within the directorate of mathematical and physical sciences.
National Institutes of Health
- Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project in an area of science that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. An ESI has completed their terminal research degree or end of post-graduate clinical training, whichever date is later, within the past 10 years and who has not previously competed successfully as PD/PI for a substantial NIH independent research award. - NIH Director's New Innovator Award
Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the award supports early career investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the NIH mission. - Researchers may want to consider K01 and K07 awards as well.
Office of Naval Research
Young Investigator Program (YIP)
This program suppporst academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second tenure-track academic appointment who have received their Ph.D. in the past seven years.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Open to researchers in chemistry, physics, and astronomy. Generally you must have started your first tenure-track appointment in the past three years.
Simons Foundation
Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards
Researchers tenured or tenure-track position and have carried out research in such a position no earlier than four years previously (see link for specific dates).
Sloan Foundation
Sloan research fellowships support fundamental research conducted by early-career scientists, who must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field. Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15 of the nomination year, and their position must have a regular teaching requirement.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
See list here including:
- Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowships
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years. This supports studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year. - Constantine and George Macricostas Fellowship at the Gennadius Library
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years, with research projects focusing on the historical, political, and sociological dimensions of Eastern Orthodox religion from Late Antiquity to the present are eligible. The fields of study may include, but are not limited to religious studies, anthropology, history, philosophy, politics, law, and sociology. - Jacob Hirsch Fellowship
U.S. or Israeli citizens who are early-career scholars (Ph.D. earned within the last five years) completing a project that requires a lengthy residence in Greece are eligible to apply. - Kathryn and Peter Yatrakis Fellowship
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years; the fellowship is for research at the Gennadius Library. - M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library
Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in the past five years. Candidates focused on Late Antique through Modern Greek Studies, including but not limited to the Byzantine, Frankish, Post-Byzantine, and Ottoman periods should demonstrate their need to work in the Gennadius Library. - Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture
Ph.D. holders who received their degree within the last 5 years; for research in the Gennadius Library for the full academic year. The Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Urban Architecture supports innovative and cross-disciplinary research on architecture, urban planning, and the history of the built environment in Greece from 1821 to the present.
Open to researchers in primarily science & health fields, plus some social sciences; see link for specific funding areas and interests. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within seven years of submission and can apply a maximum of three times.
Jacobs Foundation
Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program offers fellowships to early- and mid-career researchers whose work is dedicated to improving the learning and development of children and youth worldwide. Fellowships are awarded to talented researchers who have received their PhDs within the past 10 years.
National Academies- Gulf Research Program
Early Career Research Fellowship
Funds research connected to the Gulf of Mexico in one of four tracks: Human Health and Community Resiliance, Offshore Energy Safety, Environmental Protection and S
National Science Foundation
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)
Open to researchers in an area NSF funds, including social sciences and education. Investigators must hold at least a 50% tenure-track appointment and not yet have tenure; also investigators are restricted to participating only three times.
William T Grant Foundation
Applicants are required to be nominated by their institution and must have received their doctoral degree within seven years of submitting their application. Their focus areas are reducing inequality among young people in the US and improving the use of research evidence.
CIFAR
Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Typically you must have begun your first academic appointment within the last four year. Check annually to see what specific programs are currently accepting applications.
Other Resources
The following resources allow for free searches:
- Grant Forward: Searches are free at Grant Forward, but a subscription is required to see detailed information about funding opportunities. Fortunately, many funders also have basic information about their grants on their websites.
- Candid RFP: Candid Philanthropy News Digest has a free database of Requests for Proposals, which are announcements organizations release when they announce a grant opportunity. The Request for Proposals will typically link to the organization's website with further details.
JMU does not subscribe to the following resources, but you may have access through departmental or professional organizations.