Research and Sponsored Programs

Research Images

How to Find Funding

Internal Funding Opportunities


OhioLINK hasopen-access (OA) publishing agreements with a number of publishers. This allows -affiliated authors to publish open access articles without paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).


Faculty Professional Development Fund

This program provides financial support for conference travel and professional engagement when departmental resources are limited—helping faculty grow, connect, and lead in their fields.

External Funding Opportunities

to receive daily notices funding opportunities and save search criteria. For assistance with setting up your account, please contact Rick Francis at 419.530.2936.

Forget your password? Email Rick Francis and he can assist your with resetting it.


USA.gov

An A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies.


Search for federal announcements, retrieve guidelines and instructions, and obtain application packages. Then sign up for automated notification of postings.

Instructions for setting up a Grants.gov account and using the Workspace tool.


The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) centralized online platform for managing research grants and related activities. It provides a secure, user-friendly environment for researchers, institutions, and the public.


Funding available through Ohio Humanities with guidelines and sample applications.


State of Ohio's funding opportunities.


SBIR & STTR at

An index of federal SBIR and STTR programs and how to access them.


librarians have created a number of library guides (Lib Guides) to share information. The linked Lib Guide focuses on finding funding resources.

Limited Submissions

A limited submission refers to a funding opportunity that places a limitation on the number of proposal or other applications a single eligible entity can submit each cycle. has an internal selection process in place to determine which application(s) will be submitted to sponsors for consideration. The Office of Research oversees this process for the institution.

Contact LimitedSubmits@.Edu with questions.


Internal Selection Process

Internal Application Due: Second Wednesday of August

Current Funding Opportunities


Program supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development. Aims to create and scale evidence-based practices, tools, and technologies that improve learning outcomes and prepare students for a digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven future. A key focus is early exposure to AI to build curiosity, understanding, and readiness for future careers.
Due Date: May 27, 2026

Effective multistakeholder workforce partnerships will organize multiple employers with skill shortages in specific cybersecurity occupations in specific geographic locations to focus on developing the skilled workforce to meet industry needs within the local or regional economy.
Due Date:May 28, 2026


Existing energy technologies generally progress on established “learning curves” where refinements to a technology and the economies of scale that accrue as manufacturing and distribution develop drive improvements to the cost/performance metric in a gradual fashion. This continual improvement of a technology is important to its increased commercial deployment and is appropriately the focus of the private sector or the applied technology offices within DOE. In contrast, ARPA-E supports transformative research that has the potential to create fundamentally new learning curves.

LOI/Pre-App Due Date: May 29, 2026

Supports the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education by providing campus-based child care services. The program makes competitive grants for a period of 4 years to institutions of higher education, with a priority for child care programs that (1) leverage significant local or institutional resources and (2) utilize a sliding fee scale.
Due Date: May 29, 2026


Supports large‑scale projects advancing U.S. global health priorities through international partnerships and MOUs.
LOI/Pre-App Due Date: May 31, 2026


Invests in fundamental research to advance the capabilities, performance, security and resilience of engineered systems. These advances can benefit the U.S. power grid, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare and other critical infrastructure systems that enable economic growth and prosperity.
Rolling Deadline.

This program supports innovative, education-based approaches to address disaster preparedness and specific responses related to disasters or disaster threats caused by natural, human-made, or technological hazards or by other factors that contribute to the exposure of or risk to a community.
Due Date: June 1, 2026

- Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education

seeking to invest in new and established partnerships between STEM undergraduate and graduate programs nationwide that seek to identify and remove longstanding, systemic barriers to STEM master’s and doctoral degreeswith attention to programs that serve undergraduate students enrolled in nonprofit public and private four-year broad access institutions, two-year colleges, or baccalaureate and special focus institutions with strong access missions.

Due Date: June 1, 2026


Provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators to improve student outcomes.
Due Date: June 1, 2026


Seeks research projects that drive groundbreaking innovation and advanced development in the fields of bioinformatics, translational bioinformatics, and computational biology. The primary goal of this initiative is to support the creation and implementation of cutting-edge methods, tools, and approaches that can transform the landscape of biomedical data science.
Due: June 5, 2026



Supports leadership and entrepreneurship training programs implemented by U.S. higher education institutions.
Due Date: June 5, 2026



Supports partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local and regional food systems.
Due Date: June 5, 2026



Supports the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food business enterprises that engage as intermediaries in indirect producer-to-consumer marketing to increase access to and availability of locally and regionally produced agricultural products.

Due Date: June 5, 2026



To enhance the longevity of U.S. forest and rangeland resources and enable landowners and managers to achieve their desired goals and objectives by making relevant scientific results available.
Due Date: June 8, 2026



Supports innovative, solutions-oriented, investigator-initiated policy research that builds the evidence base and has the potential to inform strategies that improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care in the US.
LOI Due Date: June 8, 2026


Requests pre-applications for specialty crop issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research and extension activities that use systems-based, transdisciplinary approaches.
Pre-Application Due Date: June 15, 2026

Program empowers early- to mid-career faculty, researchers and program leaders to explore visionary ideas and make a lasting impact on the medical education landscape.
Due Date: June 15, 2026


Provides $5 million each to organizations that deliver hands-on manufacturing training and technical assistance to small manufacturing businesses across the United States.
Due Date: June 15, 2026



Supports a coordinated national network of state and territorial hubs, partnerships and pilot initiatives that expand AI literacy, workforce skills and real-world adoption — helping communities, businesses and governments effectively use and benefit from AI.
LOI Due: June 16, 2026



Department of Labor TQP program is explicitly designed for institutions of higher education (IHEs) working in partnership with high‑need school districts and educational agencies.
Due Date: June 23, 2026


Opportunity supports non‑incremental, well‑designed Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research that advances understanding of risk factors or develops risk‑reduction solutions, with an emphasis on transformative impact rather than incremental progress.
LOI Due: June 22, 2026
Due: September 24, 2026



P
rovides funding to help rural communities expand access to education and healthcare by using advanced telecommunications technologies. Funds support the purchase and use of equipment, software, and related technologies—such as video conferencing, network infrastructure, and instructional programming—that enable distance learning and telemedicine services for students, educators, healthcare providers, and rural residents.
Due: June 30, 2026



This opportunity funds non‑incremental, solutions‑oriented Alzheimer’s disease research that addresses key barriers to diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognosis (e.g., improved diagnostic approaches or meaningful biomarkers), with an emphasis on transformative impact rather than incremental advances.
LOI Due: June 22, 2026
Due: September 24, 2026

Supports of the administration of the High School Equivalency Program (HEP). The purpose of HEP is to assist migratory or seasonal farmworkers (or immediate family members of such workers) to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain improved employment, enter military service, or be placed in an institution of higher education (IHE) or other postsecondary education or training, which includes Registered Apprenticeships.
Due: June 12, 2026



Supports of the administration of the Promise Neighborhoods (PN). The purpose of the PN program is to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of children and youth living in the most distressed communities of the United States, including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based continuum of high-quality services.
Due: June 22, 2026



Soliciting innovative approaches to address challenges in developing continuously updating digital twin models of the cardiovascular system that combine patient data with biological physics to simulate in real time possible interventions and to predict their outcomes before actual intervention on a patient.
Due Date: June 25, 2026



Promotea partnerships between public agencies and groups interested in:Protecting, improving, restoring, and managing an appropriate distribution and a variety of wetland ecosystems and other habitats for wetland-associated migratory birds and other fish and wildlife in the U.S.;Maintaining and improving the current distribution of wetlands-associated migratory bird populations; andMaintaining an abundance of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans) and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan, and state related plans.
Due Date: June 25, 2026



Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.
Due Date: June 25, 2026



Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts, documentary films, and documentary film series  that engage general audiences with humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.
Due Date: June 25, 2026



Seeks proposals that address the needs of rural Americans by providing individual and family health education programs.
Due Date: June 28, 2026



Seeking entities capable of analyzingphytoplankton community abundance and composition and chlorophyll-a concentrations in water samples.
Due Date: June 30, 2026


Funds advanced telecommunications technologies to improve education and healthcare access in rural communities.
Due Date: June 30, 2026



Supports projects in the ENGINEER program relating to future and current engineers’ training and education in many contexts, including formal classrooms, informal maker spaces, clubs and co-curricular activities, and workplaces.
Rolling deadline

Grants are designed to provide travel funds to bring undergraduate and master's degree students to Japan for immersive learning experiences.
Due Date: July 1, 2026

Supports programs that prepare and train personnel in special education, early intervention, and related services using evidence-based strategies across multiple degree and certification levels. It aims to increase the number of qualified professionals with the skills needed to effectively serve children with disabilities in a variety of educational and community settings.
Due Date: July 2, 2026

Support industry-led partnerships to design and implement workforce training programs that equip workers with in-demand artificial intelligence (AI) skills tied to regional economic needs. Developing and delivering applied, job-ready AI training that leads to employment outcomes and strengthens key industries.
Due Date: July 10, 2026


Supports interdisciplinary, full-time research and development teams working on ambitious, use-inspired platform technologies with the potential to drive breakthrough science and create new technology sectors. It is designed to fund novel, flexible research organizations that can rapidly develop and scale transformative innovations beyond traditional academic or industry structures.
Due: July 13, 2026


Solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects that contribute to the Science Mission Directorate's (SMD) science, technology, and exploration goals. The Future Investigator (FI), i.e., the student, shall have the primary initiative to define the proposed FINESST research project and must be the primary author, with input or supervision from the proposal's Principal Investigator (PI), as appropriate.
Due Date: July 14, 2026


A national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works—so local and state priorities can lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans.

Due Date: Jul 16, 2026



Aims to support collaborative industry partnerships to prototype and pilot innovative processing technologies that are currently only proven at the bench scale to address CMM challenges in high impact areas.
Due Date: July 20, 2026



Invest in single-faceted, computer-science-driven thrusts that integrate embodied robotics with advanced computing, such as, edge and high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and scientific instruments, to enable reusable, interoperable platforms for training, evaluation, and deployment of autonomous experimental workflows.
Due: July 24, 2026



Supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that broadly advance and facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education.
Due Date: July 28, 2026


Supports foundational and interdisciplinary research across all aspects of computing, communication and information science and engineering to advance the future of technology, systems and human-centered innovation.
Due: September 10, 2026


Supports foundational and community-driven research that integrates computation, physical systems and human interaction to create reliable, resilient cyber-physical systems that enhance quality of life and community well-being.
Due: Second Thursday in September or First Thursday in February



This opportunity funds projects that support biomedical research education for pre‑K–12 audiences to increase understanding of biomedical science and stimulate interest in STEM careers.
Due Date: September 25, 2026



Helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.The PFW Program has approximately 220 staff working in all 50 states and territories. They work together with project partners and stakeholders to find key areas for conservation and set habitat goals.
Due Date: September 30, 2026



Supports research in anearly stage investigator'slaboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS.
Due: October 2, 2026



Funds innovative, untested, high‑risk/high‑reward cancer research projects (including basic research) that demonstrate strong scientific rationale and creative thinking.
Due Date: October 5, 2026



Funds mature cancer research projects with strong preliminary data that are expected to have a near‑term impact on clinical cancer care, including clinical trials, within designated DoD cancer topic areas.
Due Date: October 5, 2026


Supports research collaborations between mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers and social behavior scientists to establish innovative and principled design and analysis approaches for AI technology.

Due: October 9, 2026