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• UWL Faculty Research Grant Guidelines Available

UWL Faculty Research Grant

Application Deadline: October 28, 2026 by noon

Program Description: Funding supports full-time faculty and instructional academic staff research projects that demonstrate originality and yield results that are potentially publishable in a reputable journal, in book form, or through other recognized forms of presentation and dissemination. Research denotes investigative activities - scholarly efforts to advance knowledge, increase skills, and improve understanding in any academic discipline. Scholarly projects taking place domestically or internationally are eligible for funding.

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• UWL Academic Staff Professional Development Grant - Oct 1, 2026
• UWL University Staff Professional Development Grant - Oct 1, 2026
• UWL International Scholarship Grant - Oct 5, 2026
• WiSys & UW Spark Grant - Oct 26, 2026
• UWL Faculty Research Grant - Oct 28, 2026
• UWL Green Fund Large Grant - Nov 6, 2026
• WiSys & UW Ignite Grant for Applied Research - Nov 23, 2026 (required intent to submit)
• Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars - Nov 23, 2026
• UWL Eagle Visiting Scholar/Artist Grant - Dec 7, 2026
• UWL Community Engaged Learning Program - Dec 15, 2026
• UWL Online Instructor Training - Dec 18, 2026

Additional funding opportunities can be found via the Grants Resource Center (GRC). Set up an individual user account with your UWL email address.

American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants

• Deadline: Dec 1, 2026
• Description: Supports 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 across a wide range of humanities and social science fields.

Humboldt Foundation: Research Fellowship

• Deadline: call opens Nov 15, 2026 for July selection, Mar 15, 2027 for Nov selection, Jul 15, 2027 for Mar selection
• Amount:  €3,000 -  €3,600 per month
• Description: Supports researchers of all nationalities and research areas to conduct research in collaboration with a host at a German research institution.

National Endowment for the Humanities: Collections Stewardship

• Deadline: Dec 15, 2026
• Amount: one organization - $350,000, consortium - $500,000
• Description: Supports projects to preserve and make available physical and digital collections important for research, teaching, and public engagement in the humanities, including the work of libraries, archives, museums, and universities working on collections access, providing preservation services, and training students and professionals in collections stewardship.

National Endowment for the Humanities: Public Humanities Projects

• Deadline: Dec 9, 2026
• Amount: $750,000
• Description: Supports planning and implementation grants for public programming projects that engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Projects should reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the US and engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.

United States-Japan Foundation Grants

• Deadline: LOIs - Dec 4, 2026
• Description: Supports collaborative projects that strengthen US-Japan ties and address shared challenges through education, civil society, culture, and exchange.

Institute of Museum & Library Services: Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program

• Deadline: Nov 13, 2026
• Amount: $25,000 - $1 million
• Description: Supports projects that provide training and professional development for library and archives professionals, develop faculty and information leaders, and recruit, educate, and retain the next generation of library and archives professionals. Provides planning, forum, community-centered implementation, national implementation, early career research, and applied research grants.

Institute of Museum & Library Services: National Leadership Grants for Libraries

• Deadline: Nov 13, 2026
• Amount: $25,000 - $1 million
• Description: Supports projects that develop, enhance, or adapt replicable practices, programs, models, or tools to strengthen library and archival services, with the goals of serving learning needs of the public, improving community prosperity, and providing broad access to and preservation of information and collections through libraries and archives.

Retirement Research Foundation: Research Grants

• Deadline: LOIs - Nov 1, 2026, full apps - Feb 5, 2027
• Amount: not noted
• Description: Supports research that seeks to identify interventions, policies, and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers, such as interventional trials, translational studies, health services and policy research, projects that build on past studies, and projects that include robust dissemination plans to audiences positioned to act on them.

State Justice Institute Grants

• Deadline: Nov 1, 2026, Feb 1, 2027, May 1, 2027, Aug 1, 2027
• Amount: up to $1 million
• Description: Supports research, technical assistance, curriculum adaptation & training, strategic initiatives, and education support grants to improve the quality of justice in state courts and foster innovative, efficient solutions to common issues faced by all courts. 

Teagle Foundation: Cornerstone Learning for Living

• Deadline: concept papers - Dec 1, 2026, full apps - Apr 2027
• Amount: planning - $25,000, implementation - $300,000
• Description: Supports institution-wide efforts to strengthen the humanities in general education, student belonging, and coherent pathways through general education.

American College of Sports Medicine: Research & Program Grants

• Deadline: Nov 13, 2026
• Amount: $500 - $20,000
• Description: Supports research and program activities in exercise science and human performance. 

National Institutes of Health: Research Education Program - Courses, Curriculum, & Methods

• Deadline: Jan 25, 2027, May 25, 2027, Sept 25, 2027
• Amount: $500,000 direct costs
• Description: Supports the development of innovative research-focused courses, curricula, and educational methods that strengthen the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce targeted to participants at the undergraduate or graduate level or later career stages. Eligible participants include undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, graduate and health professional students, postdoctoral students, and early career investigators.

National Institutes of Health: Research Education Program - Mentoring Activities & Networks

• Deadline: Jan 25, 2027, May 25, 2027, Sept 25, 2027
• Amount: $500,000 direct costs
• Description: Supports the development of structured mentoring programs and networks that strengthen professional development, research career advancement, and mentorship quality within the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce, including initiatives that strengthen professional development through mentoring and programs aimed at improving the quality of mentorship. Eligible participants include high school students, undergraduates, graduates and health professional students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career and established investigators.

National Institutes of Health: Research Education Program - Research Experiences

• Deadline: Jan 25, 2027, May 25, 2027, Sept 25, 2027
• Amount: $500,000 direct costs
• Description: Supports innovative educational programs that provide mentored biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research experiences as part of a comprehensive program that supports participants' scientific development, such as scientific writing and presentation skills and instruction to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research. Eligible participants include high school students, science teachers, undergraduates, post-baccalaureates, predoctoral graduate and health professional students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career and established investigators.

National Institutes of Health: Research Enhancement Award Program

• Deadline: Oct 25, 2026, Feb 25, 2027, June 25, 2027
• Amount: $375,000 direct costs
• Description: Supports small-scale biomedical and behavioral research projects at institutions with limited NIH funding, with the goals of advancing meritorious research, strengthening institutional research capacity, and expanding meaningful undergraduate and graduate student engagement in biomedical research experiences. 

Environmental Research & Education Foundation: Research Grants

• Deadline: pre-proposals - Dec 1, 2026, May 1, 2027
• Amount: $160,000
• Description: Supports research and education on solid waste management, greater sustainability, environmental stewardship, efficiency, and increase knowledge. Strategic research priorities include greenhouse gas emissions, emerging contaminants, and advancing materials circularity & recycling.

National Science Foundation: Expeditions in Computing

• Deadline: pre-proposals - Dec 2, 2026, full apps - Jul 27, 2027
• Amount: $15 million
• Description: Supports large, multi-disciplinary teams pursuing ambitious, long-term foundational research to drive transformative advances in computing, information science, and engineering.

National Science Foundation: Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent & Responsive Solutions Foundry

• Deadline: Nov 18, 2026
• Amount: planning - $50,000, development - $300,000
• Description: Supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development by creating and scaling evidence-based practices, tools, and technologies that improve learning outcomes and prepare students for a digital, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven future.

National Science Foundation: Mathematical Sciences Focused Research Groups

• Deadline: rolling deadline
• Description: Supports collaborative projects from groups proposing to employ innovative methods to solve specific, major challenges in mathematics and statistics, including research challenges relevant to national priorities such as critical and emerging technologies.

National Science Foundation: Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace

• Deadline: Jan 25, 2027
• 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.