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Funding Opportunities for Early Career Faculty by Funder
- Early Career Faculty
Funder: NASA
Date: Spring
Description:
Challenges early career faculty to examine the theoretical feasibility of ideas and approaches that are critical to making science, space travel, and exploration more effective, affordable, and sustainable. Awards result from successful proposals to the ECF Appendix to the SpaceTech-REDDI NASA Research Announcement.
- Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
Funder: NSF
Date: September
Description:
Supports research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources. - EHR Core Research: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research
Funder: NSF
Date: February
Description:
Seeks to fund STEM research career development activities on topics that are relevant to qualitative and quantitative research methods and design. - Engineering Research Initiation (ERI)
Funder: NSF
Date: September
Description:
Support new investigators as they initiate their research programs and advance in their careers as researchers, educators, and innovators; aims to broaden the base of investigators involved in engineering research not affiliated with R1 institutions. - Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Funder: NSF
Date: July
Description:
Provides a new pathway for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who wish to propose research projects in a new direction for which preliminary data do not exist. Proposed projects must represent a change in research direction for the ESI and should be innovative and unique. - Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Funder: NSF
Date: January
Description:
Supports the research of pre-tenure faculty in mathematical and physical sciences at institutions that traditionally do not receive significant NSF funding, such as minority-serving institutions, predominantly undergraduate institutions and R2 universities.
- Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI)
Funder: NIH
Date: February, September
Description:
Provides support for a program of research in an early stage investigator’s laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS. - Research Career Development Awards (K) Kiosk
Funder: NIH
Date: All times
Description:
Funding to provide individual and institutional research training opportunities (including international) to trainees at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. - Small Grants for New Investigators to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
Funder: NIH
Date: June
Description:
Support for New Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research, to conduct small research projects in the scientific mission areas of the NIDDK and NHGRI. - Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant
Funder: NIH
Dates: May, September
Description:
Provides a new pathway for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who wish to propose research projects in a new direction for which preliminary data do not exist. Proposed projects must represent a change in research direction for the ESI and should be innovative and unique.
- DARPA Young Faculty Award
Funder: DARPA
Date: February
Description:
Aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security challenges and needs.
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
Funder: FDN
Dates: March, September
Description:
Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grants provide start-up funding for scientists and engineers in the United States who are within the first three years of their first academic appointment at the level of Assistant Professor or the equivalent. - Whitehall Foundation
Funder: FDN
Dates: April 15; October 1; January 15 (LOIs)
Description:
Provides life sciences grants-in-aid ($30,000 over one year) to early-career researchers.
- Office of Science Early Career Research Program
Funder: DOE
Date: April
Description:
Invites early career applications in core Department of Energy research focus areas, including: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics; Nuclear Physics; Accelerator R&D and Production; and Isotope R&D and Production.
- Air Force Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Funder: DOD
Date: June
Description:
Seeks to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering. - Army Research Office BAA for Fundamental Research – Early Career Program (ECP)
Funder: DOD
Date: November
Description:
Seeks to attract outstanding early career university faculty members to pursue fundamental research in areas relevant to the Army, to support their research in these areas, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. - ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Funder: DOD
Date: April
Description:
Supports early career scientists and engineers showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. Seeks to: foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.