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Faculty Research Grant Information Session - 9:30am, Sep 17, 2025

UWL Faculty Research Grant Guidelines Available

New School Year, New Grant System: Introducing RAMP

New Resource: External Grant Award Management Resource Page

Fall 2025 NSF I-Corps Cohort: Free, Six-Week Virtual Workshop – Apply by Sep 18, 2025

Webinar: Get Your Research off the Ground: WiSys Spark and Universities of Wisconsin Ignite Grants for Applied Research for FY26 – Sep 25, 2025

Webinar: Grants 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with Grants – Oct 16, 2025

UWL Faculty Research Grant

Application Deadline: Oct 22, 2025 (noon)

Program Description: Promotes and supports scholarly activities. The term “research” is meant to denote investigative activities – scholarly efforts to advance knowledge, increase skills, and improve understanding, in any academic discipline. Projects must demonstrate originality and must yield results which are potentially publishable in a reputable journal, in book form, or through other recognized forms of presentation and dissemination.

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UWL Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Course Designation for Spring 2026 – Sep 15, 2025

Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue (WICCD) Grants – Nov 15, 2025

UWL Academic Staff Professional Development Grant – Oct 1, 2025

UWL Eagle Visiting Scholar/Artist Grant – Dec 1, 2025

UWL International Scholarship Grant – Oct 6, 2025 (noon)

UWL UniversityStaff Professional Development Grant – Oct 1, 2025

WiSys Spark Grant – Oct 27, 2025

Wisconsin Joint Solicitation for Groundwater Research & Monitoring Proposals – Sep 15, 2025

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American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants

• Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
• Amount: $6,500
• Description: Support of travel costs to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses to scholars.

American Council of Learned Societies Development Grants

• Deadline: Nov 5, 2025
• Amount: $100,000
• Description: Designed to promote and provide resources for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.

American Council of Learned Societies Seed Grants

• Deadline: Nov 5, 2025
• Amount: $25,000
• Description: Designed to promote and provide resources for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Research Fellowships

• Deadline: Nov 3, 2025
• Amount: $7,000
• Description: Supports scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities. Fellowships range from one to two months, with stipends of $3,500/month each.

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grants

• Deadline: November 19, 2025
• Amount: $50,000
• Description: Eligible projects include research that significantly adds to knowledge and understanding in the humanities, archaeology research, translations, and research conferences.

Brady Education Foundation Research Projects

• Deadline: Letter of Intent, Nov 1, 2025; Full Application, Mar 1, 2026
• Amount: $125,000
• Description: Focus on developmental or educational research that will inform future education research, practice, philanthropic funding, and/or public policy.

International Literacy Association Awards & Grant Program

• Deadline: Nov 1, 2025
• Amount: $8,000
• Description: Honors for teaching, service to the profession, research, media coverage of reading, and authorship.

Conference on College Composition and Communication Grants

• Deadline: Various Deadlines
• Amount: Various Amounts
• Description: Various programs and awards for travel, research, publications, programs, and service.

ECMC Foundation Grants Program

• Deadline: Letter of Intents, Ongoing
• Description: Projects aligning with one of the three strategic priorities: 1) Removing barriers to postsecondary completion; 2) building the capacity of organizations, systems, and institutions; 3) transforming the postsecondary ecosystem.

National Institutes of Health Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data

• Deadline: Dec 3, 2025
• Amount: Not Limited
• Description: Supports innovative analysis of existing social science, behavioral, administrative, and neuroimaging data to study the etiology and epidemiology of drug using behaviors (defined as alcohol, tobacco, prescription and other drug) and related disorders, prevention of drug use and HIV, and health service utilization.

National Institutes of Health Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings

• Deadline: Dec 12, 2025
• Amount: Not Limited
• Description: Supports high quality scientific conferences that are relevant to the NIH's mission and to the public health

National Institutes of Health NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Summer Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

• Deadline: Apr 27, 2026
• Amount: $200,000
• Description: Supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance training opportunities to ensure a workforce that is well prepared to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs, help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences and foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.

International Center for Responsible Gaming Research on Gambling Behaviors and Problems Among College-Aged Individuals, Students, and Athletes

• Deadline: 13, 2025
• Amount: $360,000
• Description: Conduct research focused on gambling behaviors and problems among college-aged individuals, students and athletes. This research aims to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and impacts of gambling in these groups.

Environmental Research and Education Foundation Grants Program

• Deadline: Pre-proposal, Dec 1, 2025
• Amount: $300,000
• Description: Focus areas include waste minimization; recycling; waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals or other useful products; strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses; and landfilling.

National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)

• Deadline: Jan 20, 2026
• Amount: Not Limited
• Description: Focus areas – accelerating technology translation and development, fostering regional innovation and economic growth, and preparing the American workforce for future high-wage jobs in STEM fields.

Renewable Natural Resources Foundation Grant Program

• Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
• Amount: $200,000
• Description: Projects from various focus areas including air quality and atmospheric sciences, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation.

U.S. Department of Agriculture AFRI: Foundational and Applied Science

• Deadline: Various
• Amount: Various
• Description: Research is supported across a wide range of disciplines and topics related to agriculture including plant and animal biology, farming, animal and human health, soil health, agricultural systems and technology, economic development, environmental justice, and more.