RFPS

Funds projects conducted primarily by PhD students or post docs, under the supervision of the faculty member awarded the funds. Eligibility conditions: Awarded funds will support 1-2 graduate student or post-doc researchers conducting the research under the guidance of this PI (proposal submitted by faculty member); Refer to website for list of preferred topics

Award details and award period: $80,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which he/she was awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years. Eligibility conditions: Research Topics: a. Cell and Molecular Biology b. Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology c. Ecology and Environment d. Molecular Medicine Entrants for the 2019 prize must have been awarded their Ph.D. between January 1 2017 and December 31 2018

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $30,000 grand prize $10,000 category

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Address the need for promoting and supporting collaborative cancer research in areas that include digital therapeutics and smoking cessation biomarkers/behavioral phenotyping, to bolster our understanding of how lung cancer can be successfully intercepted. Eligibility conditions: At least two, but no more than three, co-applicants from distinct institutions are required; Project Team should also include at least one young investigator

Award details and award period: $1M

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Offers limited number of grants to mid-career investigators who have made seminal contribution that have changed the direction of basic cancer research

Award details and award period: Up to $165,000/yr direct costs for up to 4 year; 20% allowable indirect costs

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: February

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. American Cancer Society’s Research Scholar Grants support investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first six years of an independent research career or faculty appointment are eligible to apply.

Past Rice awardees: Vivian Ho, Yousif Shamoo

Award details and award period: Up to four years and for up to $165,000 per year (direct costs), plus 20% allowable indirect costs.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadlines: April 1 and October 15

Invites research applications from scholars in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, articles, digital publication(s), critical edition, or other scholarly resources. Eligibility conditions include have a PhD that was conferred at least two years before the application deadline; have had a lapse of at least two years between the last "supported research leave" and September 1, 2019

Award details and award period: $70,000 for full Professor and scholars of equivalent accomplishment $50,000 for Associate Professor and equivalent $40,000 for Assistant Professor and equivalent

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: September

Support basic research with novel and innovative hypotheses in any area relevant to the etiology or pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications that holds significant promise for advancing the prevention, cure or treatment of diabetes.

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Max $115,000/year for 3 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Support research with novel and innovative hypotheses, performed in human subjects, or research approaches to accelerate the transition of scientific discoveries into clinical application

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Up to $200,000 per year for up to three years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Support early investigators as they establish independence as diabetes researchers. Eligibility conditions: Any level faculty up to & including Assistant Professor or equivalent; Must be full-time independent faculty with less than 10 years of research experience since their terminal degree who do not have previous or current NIH support

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Up to $138,000 per year for up to four years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Eligibility conditions: Includes but not limited to all academic disciplines and health-related professions; Strongly encourages application by women, or underrepresented minorities; Must hold faculty/staff position up to and including the rank of assistant professor (or equivalent)

Award details and award period: $77,000 per year for 3 years, including 10% institutional indirect costs.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: October

Support mid-career investigators with unusual promise and established records of accomplishments; candidates have a demonstrated commitment to cardiovascular or cerebrovascular science. Eligibility conditions: Must have M.D., Ph.D., D.O. or equivalent doctoral degree; Have current national-level funding as a principal investigator (or co-PI) on an R01 grant or its equivalent; Be at least four (4) years but no more than nine (9) years since the first faculty/staff appointment at the assistant professor level or equivalent

Award details and award period: $80,000 per year for five years, including 10% indirect costs

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Sponsor deadline: October

Support highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Eligibility conditions include: Post-baccalaureate Ph.D. degree or equivalent in nursing, public health, or other clinical health science; No limit on eligibility based on career stage, academic rank, or discipline

Award details and award period: $100,000/year for 3 years

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Sponsor deadline: January

To contribute to the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual welfare of children through the dissemination of knowledge about new and innovative organizations and/or their programs designed to benefit youth

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Support research advancing the study of women in the medical profession and strengthening the AMA's ability to identify and address the issues affecting women physicians and medical students

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Up to $10,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Particularly designed to help meet 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. Eligibility conditions include expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality; Applicants who have previously received a Franklin grant may reapply after an interval of two years

Award details and award period: Maximum of $6000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: October for January decision for work in Febuary-January; December for March decision for work in April-January

The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

Award details and award period: $10,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline:mid-January

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted; however, no more than two applicants from any one institution will be selected for the award in a particular program year. The award is to support postdoctoral fellows in chemical sciences and chemical instrumentation. At time of application, applicants must be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident; be within five years of receiving their Ph.D., M.D. or M.D./Ph.D; and have no more than 36 months postdoctoral experience in a research lab. Applicants may not have faculty appointments

Award details and award period: award is $180,000 for 2 years, based on years of relevant postdoctoral research experience at the time of application. The fellowship is for two years with the possibility of renewal for a final third year.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: September 

Provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. Tenure Track dates for the 2020 program must start after 8/6/2016 and before 8/6/2019. No individual may apply for a BYI award 2+ times

Award details and award period:$600,000/4 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: June-September

Focuses on commercializing sustainable energy technologies that improve economic competitiveness, create jobs, and increase energy security. Eligibility conditions: R&D cooperation between two companies or cooperation between a company and a university/research institution (one from the United States and one from Israel); Innovation in any areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency; Significant commercial potential; the project outcome should lead to commercialization.

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Max $1M

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Program allows for one nominee per institution for each of its three categories: life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemistry. To be eligible must be under 40 years old.

Award details and award period: $250,000 over one year

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: September-November

The program invites institutions to select one senior faculty for nomination. The objective is to support projects that may be too innovative and speculative for traditional funding sources but still have a high likelihood of producing important findings.

Award details and award period: $150,000 over two years
Past Rice awardees: Junrong Zheng - 2011; Rajdeep Dasgupta - 2010; Cin-Ty Lee - 2005; Doug Natelson - 2003; Tom Killian - 2002

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: April-June

Institutions may nominate one full-time junior faculty member working in the areas of brain function. The purpose of this program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of Neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institute of Health.

Award details and award period: $80,000 over two years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: January

Accelerate advances in fundamental and translational research in age-related macular degeneration, to understand the mechanisms underlying the etiology and pathogenesis of macular degeneration and to develop innovative approaches to better diagnose, prevent or delay the progress of the disease

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $200,000 for 2 year maximum

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. Launched in 2007, the Fuller Challenge has defined an emerging field of practice: the whole systems approach to understanding and intervening in complex and interrelated crises for wide-scale social and environmental impact. Each year through this challenge, The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) invites people from all over the world—including scientists, designers, architects, activists, artists, planners, entrepreneurs, and students—to submit their innovative solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems. The Fuller Challenge attracts bold, visionary, tangible initiatives focused on a well-defined need of critical importance. Winning solutions are regionally specific yet globally applicable and present a truly comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach to solving the world's complex problems.

Award details and award period: A $100,000 grand prize will be awarded. In addition semi-finalists and finalists will be included in BFI’s catalyst program that offers benefits through relationships with sponsors, partners and networks. Note: A $100 entry fee for nonprofits is required to submit an application.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: March

Support for physician-scientists committed to an academic career, to bridge advance postdoctoral/fellowship training and early years of faculty service. Eligibility conditions include: Proposals in area of basic biomedical, disease-oriented, or translational research; Candidates must not be more than 13 years past their clinical doctorate degree; May hold a junior faculty appointment, but no tenure track appointments

Award details and award period: $700,000 over five years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: October

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) identified Innovation in Regulatory Science as an important, underfunded area. Innovation in Regulatory Science Awards are designed to provide financial support to stimulate research efforts in this area. The program's focus is on providing support for academic researchers developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions FDA and others make. This would necessarily draw upon the talents of individuals trained in mathematics, computer science, applied physics, medicine, engineering, toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, and systems pharmacology, to name a few.

Award details and award period: Up to $500,000 over five years. Primary investigators are required to devote no less than 50% of their time to research-related activities. Indirect costs may not be charged against BWF grants.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: Febuary 

The program allows for two nominations per institution per cycle. Assistant professors conducting biochemical, pharmacological, molecular, genetic, or immunologic research are eligible.

Award details and award period: $500,000 over five years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July 

Address the gap between technology development and clinical application of cancer immunotherapies. Eligibility conditions: Applicants must hold a faculty appointment as a tenure-track assistant professor or higher at time of award; Joint submissions from collaborators considered; Selected Projects meeting milestones eligible for follow-on funding

Award details and award period: Up to $200,000 used over 1 or two years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: November

Seeks applications for software projects that are essential to biomedical research, have already demonstrated impact, and can show potential for continued improvement. Eligibility conditions: Two categories considered: a. Domain-specific software for analyzing, visualizing, and otherwise working with the specific data types that arise in biomedical science b. Foundational tools and infrastructure that enable a wide variety of downstream software across several domains of science and computational research

Award details and award period: $50,000-$250,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August, February

Focused on a rare disease to apply for a two-year funding opportunity to develop and launch collaborative research networks in partnership with clinicians and researchers. Eligibility conditions: Representing a patient-­led organization focused on a rare disease, disorder, or syndrome, or group of closely related rare diseases, disorders, or syndromes; Tax­-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

Award details and award period: $250,000 total costs for 2 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Supports the publication of books on American art through the Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant. Eligibility conditions: Application by publisher, not author; Applications considered only for book-length scholarly manuscripts in history of American art under contract for publication

Award details and award period: Requested

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: TBA

Encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. Eligibility conditions include must have completed one or more of the following degrees or its equivalent: MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, DO; Must include a copy of his/her diploma to confirm date of conferral; One fellowship application will be accepted from a Sponsor, co-Sponsor or Fellow per review session; Candidates who have already accepted a postdoctoral research fellowship award are not eligible

Award details and award period: Y1: 52k Y2: 54k Y3: 57k Y4: 60k Expenses of 2k allotted each year

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have the strong potential for high impact in the cancer field.

Award details and award period: The Stage 1 award will be for two years, $150,000 per year, with the opportunity for up to two additional years of funding (up to four years total for $600,000). Stage 2 support for years three and four will be granted to awardees who demonstrate progress on proposed research during years one and two of the award. The Award cannot be used for indirect costs or institutional overhead.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Program allows for up to two nominations per institution. Eligible candidates are junior physician-scientists who hold an M.D. or D.O. and have full-time faculty appointment as an assistant professor appointed in the past five years.

Award details and award period: $150,000 plus $15,000 of indirect costs over three years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: November 

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. Durham University offers Senior Research Fellowships as well as Policy and Enterprise Fellowships to gather together scholars, researchers, policy makers or practitioners from around the world and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities to address themes of global significance in collaboration with Durham's Research Institutes and researchers. Before applying, applicants must seek the agreement of a Durham academic to act as their host.

Award details and award period: fellowships are available for periods of 6 weeks to 6 months with a typical stay of 3 months. For the duration of their stay, Fellows will be provided with living and office accommodations, access to research facilities, meals in a residential college and other benefits. Durham University will cover the costs associated with the Fellow traveling to Durham, UK from their home institution and an honorarium (€4,200 for three months, prorated for shorter stays, not subject to UK tax).
Past Rice Awardees: https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/diferens/senior/

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: January

Supports medical research in the control and treatment of pain, as well as efforts directed at enhancing individual choice in medical treatment and dying, bioethics, palliative care, medical research, and education. Please contact Rice OCFR before approaching funder or submitting an application

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: March, July, November

Supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit our fields of interest. Eligibility conditions: Refer to Fields of Interests (http://www.eifgrants.org/info/progareas.html)

Award details and award period: Between $5,000-$25,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August

Funds projects in biological and physical sciences. Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, endangered species and ecosystems in the U.S. and abroad, and climate change. Eligibility conditions: Does not support work in the social sciences, education or computer science, and only rarely funds research into diseases that have considerable financial support available; Does not fund work that can qualify for funding from conventional sources such as the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health, or similar agencies at the state level; Candidates with newly awarded doctorates occasionally, but rarely meet requirements for advanced research

Award details and award period: Up to $250,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: TBA

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. Facebook invites academics to propose research in specific areas that align with their mission of making the world more open and connected. The Awards vary in nature and may solicit proposals from individual researchers addressing a well-defined problem or may require multiple university departments to collaborate with a diverse set of skills to solve a more complex multi-disciplinary challenge.

Award details and award period:Calls for proposals align to specific research areas, They offer insight to the academic community on topical research questions of interest to Facebook, where academic insight is key.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: Varies by Program (July-August)

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The Faculty Research Awards Program supports academic research in computer science, engineering, and related fields. Through the program, we fund world-class research at top universities, facilitate interaction between Google and academia, and support projects whose output will be made openly available to the research community. Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to universities and are designed to support roughly the cost of one graduate student for one year of work.

Award details and award period: Maximum of $150,000 (with median $50,000-$60,000) over one year

Past Rice awardees: Chris Jermaine, Swarat Chaudhuri (2015); Lin Zhong (2014); James McLurkin (2013); Richard Baraniuk, Lin Zhong, Hadley Wickham (2011); Dan Wallach (2009)
Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: September

Support projects that drive digital innovation and develop new business models. Areas of Interest: 1. Impact on the news ecosystem 2. Innovation 3. Feasibility 4. Inspiration

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $300,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

This grant prioritizes projects about architecture and the designed environment. Two Types of Grants: a. Production and Presentation Grant: assist individuals with production-related expenses to take project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation b. Research and Development Grant: assist individuals with seed money for research related expenses

Award details and award period: Production and Presentation Grant: Maximum $20,000; Research and Development Grant: Maximum $10,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: September

The program allows for an institution to submit one nominee per cycle for a junior faculty member conducting research in ethics and life sciences.

Award details and award period: 50 percent salary support for three years

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: August
Sponsor deadline: September

Support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice.

Award details and award period: ~$200,000 for two years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Seeks proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression

Award details and award period: $15,000-$40,000 per year for 1-2 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August

This is a graduate student fellowship that supports students of applied sciences who are expected to have the greatest impact on solving pressing human problems in the next half century. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application and must be students of the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. College seniors applying to graduate programs as well as graduate students already studying in these fields may apply. Generally awards to current graduate students are limited to those in their first year.

Award details and award period: full tuition and fees plus a personal stipend. The personal stipend is either $32,000 per 9-month period for up to five years OR $38,000 per 9-month period for up to two years plus $6,000 per year supplemental stipend when combined with a 3-year fellowship from another source

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: October

Eligibility conditions include PhD and/or MD, tenured or tenure-track position as assistant professor or higher academic rank, more than 4, but no more than 10, years of post-training, professional experience. Principal investigator or Co-Principal investigator on at least one active, nationally competitive grant with an initial term of two or more years at some point from April 1, 2013 through July 1, 2015

Award details and award period: Awardees receive a five-year, non-renewable grant between $100k and $400k per year.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: TBA

The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program supports early career life scientists in academic labs across the U.S. Eligibility is for those who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, hold PhD and/or MD, and are accepted to join a laboratory as postdoctoral researcher at research institution in US i.

Award details and award period: Postdoctoral Training Phase: Fellows will receive annual support of a $60,000 salary for the initial year and a $20,000 expense allowance Faculty Phase: Fellows will receive $250,000 in research funding and a $20,000 expense allowance per year

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: January

Fosters a learning community of college and university faculty and administrators who are engaged in the process of increasing their institution’s capacity for inclusion of all students, especially students who belong to groups underrepresented in the sciences

Award details and award period:$1 million/ 5 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Biomedical investigators direct a research team and create a laboratory environment well suited to tackle profound science questions. Applicants must have a PhD and/or MD. Applicants must hold a position that represents substantial commitment by their institution, such as a tenure-track faculty position.

Award details and award period: Unspecified, but Investigators are employees of HHMI and receive a salary and benefits from HHMI

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: TBA

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The Foundation offers Collaborative Activity Awards to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. Collaborative awards will not be awarded in support of large, program-project style research proposals.

Award details and award period: Amounts and durations of projects in the following areas are flexible: Studying Complex Systems and Understanding Human Cognition.

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: No deadline

Interested in your ideas for projects related to our Core Funding Areas. Eligibility conditions: Full Proposals are by invitation only; Areas of Interest: a. Science and the Big Questions: Mathematical and physical sciences, life sciences, human sciences, philosophy and theology, science in dialogue b. Character virtue development c. Individual freedom and free markets d. Exceptional cognitive talent and genius e. Genetics

Award details and award period: Small Grants: $234,800 or less; Large Grants: $234,800 or more

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August

Clinical researchers at a relatively early stage of their independent career involved in Type 1 Diabetes research. Eligibility conditions: First faculty-level appointment less than 5 years before the submission date are eligible to apply for this award; Applicant must be sponsored by an investigator who is affiliated full-time with an accredited institution

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $150,000 for up to 5 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Support for basic research that is high-risk and has potential to transform its field. There is a science and engineering program and a medical program. Past grants have been awarded to interdisciplinary teams conducting pioneering research in the development of new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies. Must demonstrate unique approach and specific need for Keck support. Institutions may put forward one team for each of the two programs per cycle each six months.

Award details and award period: Up to $5,000,000, but grants typically range in $1-2M over three years
Past Rice awardees: Dan Mittleman, (2013); Doug Natelson (2007)

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: May for June cycle; November for December cycle
Sponsor deadline: November for June cycle; May for December cycle

Exclusively funds research related to human origins. Contact grants@leakeyfoundation.org to ask if proposal qualifies

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Up to $25,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: January, July

Funds a single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time

Award details and award period: Single grant of $100 million

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Invite impactful research that will advance our translational understanding of, or lead to improved clinical treatment of any serious medical conditions that afflict mothers during pregnancies or newborns within the first year of life. Applications focused on preterm birth and birth defects are prioritized. Eligibility conditions: MD or MD/PhD applicants should be four to nine years past their last year of clinical training required for medical specialty board certification, must hold a full-time tenure-track faculty position; Received their first tenure-track appointment no more than four years prior to the submission deadline

Award details and award period: $150,000 for 2 years, including 10% indirect costs

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Program allows for one nominee per invited institution. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities, which is broadly conceived, who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest to pursue a specific research agenda. Applicants must have been awarded their doctorate within the last six to twelve years and have a research interest that calls for formal training in a discipline beyond their current field of expertise.

Award details and award period: funding is for the equivalent of one academic year's salary, two summers of additional support, and tuition, course fees, or equivalent direct costs associated with the fellows' training programs

Past Rice Awardees: Kirsten Ostherr – 2012 Aysha Pollnitz – 2019

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: June
Sponsor deadline: October

Rice is invited to submit one nominee per cycle. Provides support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments in the humanities and social sciences. Productive scholars in comparative inquiry that would (in ordinary university circumstances) be difficult to pursue are encouraged to apply.

Award details and award period: $150,000 over one year
Past Rice awardees: Fares El Dah-dah and Melissa Bailar (2013); Caroline Levander and Nicholas Shumway (2011)

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: January
Sponsor deadline: March

Fund welcomes proposals that advocate for public financial resources to land protection, demonstrate community engagement and certified sustainable management of land, and/or provide leadership to existing coalitions that build multi-stakeholder voice. Geographic focus will be southeastern US

Award details and award period: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: January, July

The Fund supports efficiency policies and implementation efforts in the Northeast and Southeast. Please refer to website for supported research areas

Award details and award period: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: Please refer to Merckff Foundation grant ‘a’ for deadline

Support programs in low-income urban areas that are harnessing the power of young people to create urban farms and local markets. Please refer to website for supported research areas

Award details and award period: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: Please refer to Merckff Foundation grant ‘a’ for deadline

Support projects that change the way people and organizations monitor, model, and ultimately manage Earth’s natural systems. Applicants should be close to or done with their data collection and ready to start with computation and model building.

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Advance knowledge of how symbiotic associations function and participate in ecology and evolution in marine and freshwater systems. Eligibility conditions: Two Categories- a. Symbiosis Model Systems: advance development of experimentally tractable model systems in aquatic symbiosis. b. Moore-Simons Project on the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell: origin of the eukaryotic cell

Award details and award period: Unspecified

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: SMS-August MSPOEC-September

The program invites up to two nominations from selected institutions. Researchers in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering are encouraged to apply. To be eligible must be within first three years of initial faculty appointment.

Award details and award period: $875,000 over five years
Past Rice awardees: Junrong Zheng - 2011; Rajdeep Dasgupta - 2010; Cin-Ty Lee - 2005; Doug Natelson - 2003; Tom Killian - 2002

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: Febuary 
Sponsor deadline: March

Program allows for one nominee from an institution per cycle and supports basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. Must be an assistant professor appointed in the past years years with a PhD in biomedical sciences or medicine.

Award details and award period: $240,000 over four years

Link to Opportunity

Internal deadline: June
Sponsor deadline: October

Funds basic biomedical research in the fields of cancer, immunology and neuroscience. The Foundation also supports an award for scholars in pain research. Eligibility conditions: Rice can nominate one individual; Candidates must be nominated by an invited institution; Completed training in one or relevant fields: cancer, immunology, neuroscience, or pain; Early Career

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $110,000 per year for maximum 5 years

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: September

Support action-oriented research that advances health equity, builds the knowledge base, and informs policymaking to increase access to early care and education (ECE) for low-income families

Award details and award period: Primary Data Collection: Max $250,000 for up to 2 years; Secondary Data Analysis: Max $75,000 for 1 year; Implementing and Testing strategies to expand access: Max $500,000 for up to 30 months

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Support actionable research that advances health equity in the areas of nutritional disparities, nutrition, and food security.

Award details and award period: $320,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: July

Seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the social, economic and political consequences of actual behaviors and decisions. Eligibility conditions: Priority given to field experiments (as opposed to lab experiments); Areas of Interests: choice architecture; time preferences; poverty, inequality, and mobility; labor markets; racial and ethnic bias; public finance

Award details and award period: Trustee Grants max $175,000; Presidential Grants max at $35,000

Link to Opportunity

Sponsor deadline: August, November

Support research proposals from multiple methodological perspectives that will further our understanding of decision making processes and human behavior in the contexts of work, race, ethnicity, immigration, and social inequality. Priority given to proposals related to core programs (http://www.russellsage.org/programs) and special initiatives (http://www.russellsage.org/special-initiatives)

Award details and award period: Trustee Grants max $175,000 Presidential Grants max at $35,000

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Sponsor deadline: August

Seek investigator-initiated research proposals that will broaden our understanding of the role of changes in employer practices, the nature of the labor market and public policies on the employment, earnings, and the quality of jobs of workers. Eligibility conditions: Especially interested in proposals that address important questions about the interplay of market and non-market forces in shaping the wellbeing of workers, today and in the future; Interested in novel uses of existing data, as well as analyses of new or under-utilized data

Award details and award period: Trustee Grants max $175,000; Presidential Grants max at $35,000

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Sponsor deadline: August

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. There are 24 Research Themes, but additional proposals outside the topics are welcome because innovation knows no boundaries.

Award details and award period: Up to $100,000 per year with the opportunity to renew up to three years

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Sponsor deadline: June

Seeks to develop solutions to the country’s most important and challenging domestic policy issues. Please refer to website for a list of supported areas of interest.

Award details and award period: Unspecified

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Sponsor deadline: August

The program allows for two nominations per institution per cycle. Tenure-track faculty in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences at the assistant professor level are eligible.

Award details and award period: $300,000 over three years
Past Rice awardees: Wei Wei Zhong (2009); Jeff Hartgerink (2004)

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Internal deadline: July
Sponsor deadline: September

Explore fundamental materials, devices, and interconnect solutions to enable future high-performance computing/storage paradigms beyond conventional CMOS technology, beyond von Neumann architecture, or beyond classical information processing/storage.

Award details and award period: Larger center funded at $2M per year for 3 years; Smaller center funded at $1M per year for 3 years

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Sponsor deadline: July

To research and disseminate information on world educational systems and to facilitate the integration of individuals educated outside the United States into the U.S. educational environment and work force.

Award details and award period: Up to $1,000

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Sponsor deadline: February, August

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The program supports collaborative projects that address fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science. Collaboration director and PI must hold a faculty, or equivalent, position at a U.S. or Canadian institution with a Ph.D. program. There are no restrictions on the department and/or discipline of the director or PIs. Other collaboration participants may be from non-U.S. institutions.

Award details and award period: $2.5 million per year for initial period of four years; opportunity to extend grant for additional three years will be determined in the third year of the initial period

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Sponsor deadline: September

Purpose of these awards is to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in the field of marine microbial ecology and evolution. Eligibility conditions include: Must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent; She/he must have carried out research in a tenure-track or equivalent independent position for at least one year and no more than eight years (start date of first independent position between November 2010 and November 2017); She/he must be the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI currently or within the past year on a research grant from a national governmental agency or major foundation

Award details and award period: $180,000 per year including indirect costs for 3 years

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Sponsor deadline: November

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The program provides funds for up to a semester long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. Applicants must be eligible for sabbatical and hold a primary teaching or administrative tenured position in the mathematics department. Grants are restricted to the purpose of extending a single term sabbatical leave to a full academic year.

Award details and award period: 50% of academic salary (up to $100,000) and $10,000 for expenses
Past Rice awardees: Tim Cochran, (2014); Shelly Harvey (2014); David Damanik (2012)

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Sponsor deadline: September

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The program provides funds for up to a semester long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. Applicants must be eligible for sabbatical and hold a primary teaching or administrative tenured position in physics or related department. Grants are restricted to the purpose of extending a single term sabbatical leave to a full academic year.

Award details and award period: 50% of academic salary (up to $100,000) and $10,000 for expenses

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Sponsor deadline: September

Tenure-track faculty conducting research in chemistry, computational or evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field within six years from earning their PhD are invited to apply. No more than three faculty per department may apply.

Award details and award period: $65,000 over two years

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Internal deadline: June
Sponsor deadline: September

Funds research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the United States. Please refer to website for the research areas SIF is seeking.

Award details and award period: $10,000-$20,000

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Sponsor deadline: August

Rice may submit one nominee. St. Baldrick's Scholar Awards are meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers who are working in pediatric cancer research. Research projects must have direct applicability and relevance to pediatric cancer. They may be in any discipline of basic, clinical, translational or epidemiological research. Applicants must be within the first five years of appointment and should hold a Ph.D., M.D., or D.O., by the date the award begins.

Award details and award period: awards are up to $110,000 per year for three years to be used entirely for the Scholar’s salary at the applicant institution, including up to 30% of the salary amount for fringe benefits. Scholars have an opportunity to apply for an additional two years of funding based upon the demonstration of significant accomplishment. If funded, Years 4-5 will be up to $115,000 per year.

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Internal deadline: December
Sponsor deadline: January

Rice may submit two proposals. St. Baldrick's research grants are for specific one-year research projects that are hypothesis driven and may be either laboratory, clinical, or epidemiological in nature. Applicants should hold an M.D./D.O. or a Ph.D. Applicants may only serve as lead PI on one proposal to St. Baldrick's Foundation during each grant cycle.

Award details and award period: average grant is $100,000 or less.

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Internal deadline: December
Sponsor deadline: January

Rice may submit one proposal. St. Baldrick's supportive care research grants are for specific one-year research projects which are hypothesis driven and focus on areas related to the supportive care of children and adolescents with cancer. Examples include but are not limited to: studies related to symptom clusters, patient-reported outcomes/quality of life, health communication, health promotion, and psychosocial support across the trajectory from diagnosis to survivorship or end-of-life care. Applicants should hold an M.D./D.O. or a Ph.D. Applicants may only serve as lead PI on one proposal to St. Baldrick's Foundation during each grant cycle.

Award details and award period: average grant is $50,000.

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Internal deadline: December
Sponsor deadline: January

Rice is not limited in the number of consortium grants it may submit or be a part of; however, a researcher may only apply once per grant cycle as the lead PI on a proposal in any category to the foundation. These collaborative research grants are to support a multi-institutional program project that is thematic and works to solve key questions in childhood cancer. Multi-institutional is considered to be 3-5 or more institutions. Applicants should hold an M.D./D.O. or a Ph.D. The lead institution on the proposal must be located in the United States.

Award details and award period: grants will be for one to five years and will range from $100,000-$500,000 annually.

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Sponsor deadline: January

Support outstanding research seeking to use liquid biopsy techniques to improve treatment, detection, and understanding of metastatic breast cancer which will lead to a reduction in breast cancer deaths by 2026. Eligibility conditions: Must have a doctoral degree, including M.D., Ph.D., D.Ph., D.O., or equivalent; Areas of Interest: Redefining Metastatic Breast Cancer through Liquid Biopsy: a. Refining treatment of metastatic breast cancer b. Early detection of metastatic breast cancer

Award details and award period: Award Amount: $450,000 ($150,000 per year for up to 3 years)

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Sponsor deadline: July

This is not a limited submission, more than one application per department or institution is permitted. The program supports high-risk projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance with a primary focus on mathematics, theoretical computer science and theoretical physics.

Award details and award period: funding is for up to five years and is based on the support requested in the proposal

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Sponsor deadline: Rolling

Enable grantees to return to their research locale to share their research results with the community in which the research was conducted and/or the academic/anthropological community in the region or country of research. Eligibility conditions: Applications must be received within six years of the original approve date of the Dissertation Fieldwork or Post-Ph.D. Research Grant.

Award details and award period: $5,000

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Sponsor deadline: February, August

Developing U.S. leaders in the profession of biomedical engineering who are not only superb engineers and scientists, but who will effectively serve and lead the profession with an international outlook.

Award details and award period: Award Amount: Unspecified

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Sponsor deadline: July

Rice may submit one nominee. The intent of the fellowship is to advance the understanding of programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality or contribute to understanding the use of research evidence. Candidate must be within seven years of receiving his or her Ph.D.

Award details and award period: $350,000 for five years

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Internal deadline: May
Sponsor deadline: July

Seeks to advance innovative projects that improve the health of our oceans and address the dynamic environmental challenges facing the sailing and marine communities. Eligibility conditions: Proposals should advance one or more of the program’s focus areas: a. Reduce Ocean Pollution b. Ocean Literacy and Stewardship c. Advance Clean Technologies and Best Practices d. Climate Change and Water Quality Issues

Award details and award period: $10,000-$100,000 for 1 year

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Sponsor deadline: March, September