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Grants newsletter
In this issue
- November 2025
- Featured Funding
- UWL, UW System & Wisconsin Grants
- External Grants
- Arts/Humanities/International
- Education/Economic & Community Development
- Health
- Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
November 2025
Featured Funding
WiSys Ignite Grant for Applied Research
Application Deadline: Nov 24, 2025 Required Letter of Intent; Jan 20, 2026 Full Proposal
Program Description: Funding supports projects to develop advanced human potential and the knowledge economy that employs that potential. In particular, this program promotes technology transfer and economic development throughout Wisconsin and provides for broader impact beyond the state.
UWL, UW System & Wisconsin Grants
- UW System Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program – Nov 24, 2025
- UWL Eagle Visiting Scholar/Artist Grant – Dec 1, 2025
- UWL Community Engaged Learning – Dec 15, 2025
- UWL Faculty Development Grant – Jan 23, 2026
- UWL University Staff Professional Development Grant – Feb 1, 2026
- UWL International Scholarship Grant - Feb 2, 2026
- Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Research Infrastructure – Feb 3, 2026
- Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Communities Program – Feb 11. 2026
- UWL Curricular Redesign Grant – Feb 13, 2026
- UW System Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellowships – Feb 20, 2026
- UWL Crowdfunding - Ongoing
External Grants
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Arts/Humanities/International
Fulbright International Education Administrators Program
- Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
- Description: Supports international education professionals and senior university administrators in two-week summer seminars in various countries. Seminars introduce participants to the society, culture and higher education systems of these countries through visits, meetings with foreign colleagues and officials, cultural events, and briefings on education.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars & Institutes
- Deadline: Feb 11, 2026
- Amount: $220,000
- Description: Supports national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers or university faculty in four models. Seminars and institutes may last from two to five weeks and may be hosted by colleges and universities among other groups. Projects must be designed for a national audience of teachers.
National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture
- Deadline: Feb 11, 2026
- Amount: $190,000
- Description: Provides support for a series of one-week residence-based workshops at historic sites. Workshops should be academically rigorous, focus on key primary sources and documents relevant to American history, and involve leading scholars as lecturers or seminar leaders.
Education/Economic & Community Development
- Deadline: Feb 25, 2026
- Amount: $375,000
- Description: Supports small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for undergraduate students and enhancing the research environment at these applicant institutions.
National Institutes of Health Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
- Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
- Amount: $250,000
- Description: Supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. There is a focus on biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness.
- Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
- Amount: $499,000
- Description: Supports projects to expand, improve, or transform the utility of mammalian cancer and tumor models for translational research. NCI encourages projects devoted to demonstrating that mammalian models, including organoids, tumoroids and cell models, used for translational research are robust representations of human biology, are appropriate to test questions of clinical importance, and provide reliable information for patient benefit.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Small Research Grant Program
- Deadline: Feb 16, 2026
- Amount: $100,000
- Description: Supports health services research grant applications focused on AHRQ research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery. AHRQ supports research in all healthcare settings, including the hospital, long-term care, ambulatory care, home healthcare, pharmacy, and care transitions between settings.
Health
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
- 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.
- 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.
Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science Foundation Grants
- Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
- Amount: $50,000
- Description: Supports competitive, short-term research grants in the laboratory animal science field. Examples of research interest are environmental conditions; housing and enrichment; pain and distress; health and welfare; euthanasia; and advancements in animal care and use.
National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology
- Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
- Amount: $600,000
- Description: Supports basic research in areas related to human evolution and contemporary human biological variation. Supported research areas include human genetic variation, human adaptation, human osteology and bone biology, human and nonhuman primate paleontology, functional anatomy, and primate socioecology.
National Science Foundation Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Deadline: Ongoing
- Amount: $350,000
- Description: Provides opportunities for mid- to later-career investigators to develop new understanding of science in the fields supported by the Division of Environmental Biology. Funds support two tracks: Mid-Career Synthesis aimed at mid-career scientists and Core Research Synthesis for an individual or a group of investigators to revisit and synthesize a significant body of their prior research in a way that will enable new understanding of their research system and questions of interest.
U.S. Department of the Interior Sea Duck Joint Venture Grants
- Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
- Amount: $300,000
- Description: Program seeks to prevent further listings of sea duck species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Species at Risk Act (SARA) in Canada. Funded projects contribute sound science about sea duck populations and habitat needs that contribute to monitoring their status and addressing factors that diminish their abundance.
National Science Foundation Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0)
- Deadline: Jan 26, 2026
- Amount: $300,000
- Description: Supports proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; economics; education; mathematics; statistics; and social and behavioral sciences.
National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
- Amount: $750,000
- Description: Program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.