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M. Arora (Community, Environment & Policy)

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EPA encourages eligible applicants to form a consortium to operate this program. Eligible applicants may be a member of a consortium in more than one application. However, such applicants may not apply as the sole applicant or as the applicant for a consortium in more than one application.

Executive Summary
The National Environmental Education and Training Program is authorized under Section 5 of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-619). The purpose of this program is to deliver environmental education (EE) training and long-term support to formal and non-formal education professionals across the U.S. in the development and delivery of environmental education and training programs and studies, bolstering their ability to effectively teach about environmental issues. Eligibility for funding is open to U.S. institutions of higher education, not-for-profit institutions as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which are exempt from taxation pursuant to provisions of section 501(a) of such Code, or a consortium of such institutions may apply to operate this program.
 

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An entity may submit only one concept paper and one associated application for each topic area of this NOFO. If an entity submits more than one, we will only review the last timely submission. Any other submissions listing the same entity as the applicant for the same topic area will not be eligible. This limitation does not prohibit an entity from collaborating on other applications (e.g., as a potential subrecipient or partner) so long as the entity is only listed as the applicant on one concept paper and one associated application for each topic area of this NOFO.

Topic Area 2 Overview
The Smart Grid Topic Area aims to support projects focused on deploying advanced grid technologies. This initiative is looking for innovative application of cutting-edge, marketready technologies, which may include new devices, materials, engineering designs, or software tools. These projects are intended to strengthen grid reliability and resilience through reconductoring and deploying other Advanced Transmission Technologies. Projects will expand the transfer capability of existing transmission and sub-transmission lines, improve system flexibility, and reduce the likelihood and consequences of disruptive events. This topic supports projects that enhance the efficiency, reliability, and operational flexibility of the electric grid through smart grid technologies that enable real-time monitoring, control, and optimization of grid assets. DOE will focus primarily on projects that combine Advanced Transmission Technologies and reconductoring to achieve measurable increases in transfer capability and operational intelligence. 

Projects must demonstrate how digitalization, automation, and data-driven technologies improve existing transmission and sub-transmission systems while delivering measurable affordability benefits to ratepayers through reduced congestion costs, deferred capital investment, and improved efficiency of existing assets. Projects should provide quantifiable improvements in grid performance, situational awareness, and resilience through modernization and smart control. DOE seeks applications for smart grids, specifically those designed to support new load integration, that: 

• Integrate ATTs or reconductoring in ways that enable dynamic operations and increase transfer capability on existing rights-of-way
• Deploy advanced conductors and smart grid technologies that improve operational flexibility, reliability, and affordability
• Enhance data visibility and control through communications, automation, and analytics that directly support improved reliability
• Provide replicable approaches for regional scale-up and commercialization of combined ATTs and reconductoring deployments
• Support integration of backup generation enabling solutions (e.g., controls, telemetry, coordination) tailored for large load integration with mechanisms for grid-support services

The submission for this funding program is coordinated by the Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing. Please contact Dan Moseke, Projects Director, for more information.

K. Muralidharan (Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing)

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Institutes should limit their submissions to no more than 2 proposals for each degree cohort.

Overview
Intel Corporation, in collaboration with Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), invites universities located in Ohio, Oregon, Arizona, and New Mexico to submit proposals for participation in the Intel Scholarship & Fellowship Program. This program is designed to build a pipeline of highly skilled professionals with advanced degrees in semiconductor-related disciplines in regions where Intel has significant operations. The initiative will provide funding to support scholarships and fellowships for eligible MS and PhD students. A key desired outcome is to increase retention and degree attainment in advanced degrees in engineering and STEM disciplines of interest to the semiconductor industry.   Selected institutions will collaborate with SRC and Intel personnel to recruit, mentor, and support students in critical academic disciplines, preparing them for careers in semiconductor innovation 

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M. Corty (Neuroscience)

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Institutions may submit one proposal per session. Interested candidates should work through their sponsored projects office.

Grant Guidelines
The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.

The funds are designed to provide to tenure track faculty members in their first to fourth year, at American Institutions, who hold M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees, start-up support to move the project forward to the point where R01 or other independent funding can be obtained.  Applicants with current R01 or similar funding should not apply.  

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Z. Guido (Arizona Institute for Resilience)
G. Barron-Gafford (School of Geography Development and Environment)

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Applicants may submit up to two (2) applications as the Management Entity (ME).

Note: Coordination with other eligible applicants and use of a consortia approach is acceptable. In addition to applying as a Management Entity, an organization may partner as a sub awardee under other eligible applications.

Executive Summary
America First investments in agricultural research through the FtF Innovation Labs benefit the world’s poorest regions while also providing major benefits to the United States. The Department of State invites eligible applicants to advance global food security in alignment with U.S. policy through targeted research that meets one or both of the following core objectives:

1. Advances agricultural science and research to increase productivity, mitigate threats to production systems, and support food systems to reduce hunger and malnutrition through enhanced supply of nutritious and safe foods; and/or
2. Increases demand for individual and household consumption of nutritious, safe foods as part of healthy diets, and improves market pathways and opportunities for government and private sector actors to promote consumption of nutritious and safe foods.

The Management Entity of each respective FtF Innovation Lab is expected to help implement and communicate impact pathways from research to development outcomes via partnerships with other USG programs, national partners, private companies, community-based organizations, such as faith-based organizations, and other donors and their programs. Programs must ensure U.S. investments directly benefit American safety, strength, and prosperity. Proposals should clearly address how the research activities will support both global food security and U.S. national security and economic interests, reduce the need for repeated humanitarian assistance, expand market access for U.S. companies, and protect the U.S agriculture industry.

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J. Schaibley (Physics)
D. Soh (Optical Sciences)
S. Ndlovu (Mining Engineering and Mineral Resources)

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Applicant institutions are limited to no more than three pre-applications or applications as the lead institution.

An individual may not be named as the PI (EFRC Director) on more than one pre-application or application. Directors of existing EFRC awards that do not have project end dates in 2026 cannot be named as the EFRC Director on any pre-application or application in response to this NOFO.

There is no limitation to the number of applications on which an institution appears as a subrecipient. 

Should DOE receive submissions in excess of the applicable limits, DOE reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to request additional or clarifying information to ascertain the institution’s intended submissions. Otherwise, DOE will consider the latest received submissions to be the institution’s intended submissions.
• Pre-applications in excess of the limited number of submissions may be discouraged.
• Applications in excess of the limited number of submissions may be declined without review.

Program Description
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program. The purpose of this program is to bring together world-class teams of scientists from universities, DOE national laboratories, and other institutions to perform energy-relevant basic research with a scope and complexity beyond what is possible in single-investigator or small-group awards. These multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary centers accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences. EFRCs integrate experiments, theory, computation, and AI/ML; develop innovative experimental and theoretical tools that illuminate fundamental processes in unprecedented detail; and create an enthusiastic, interdisciplinary, workforce of energy-focused scientists.

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YIG - S. Adamo (Radiology and Imaging Sciences) 

The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is coordinating this limited submission. For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate one proposal for the Breast Cancer Alliance Research Awards - either for the Young Investigator Grant (YIG) OR Exceptional Project Grant (XP) 2026.

Purpose of Award:

Breast Cancer Alliance provides seed money – scientific venture capital – to fund innovative breast cancer research with emphases on programs that have not yet qualified for federal grants. To secure federal funding, a researcher must prove a theory works. Breast Cancer Alliance creates the critical bridge between novel research and the opportunity to generate preliminary results with grants like our Exceptional Projects.

BCA encourages careers in breast cancer research and in clinical medicine. We award two year Young Investigator Grants to doctors and scientists in the early stages of their careers, often overlooked by the funding world until they have longer tenure. 

• YIG:
  • Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists who are in the early stages of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for a Young Investigator Grant.
  • This award helps advance the careers of young researchers who do not yet have their own major grant support, but who design and conduct their own independent research projects.
• XP:
  • Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists at any stage of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for an Exceptional Project Grant.
  • This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research related to breast cancer.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) is coordinating this limited submission. For more information please contact: UACC-PreAward.

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The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC) can nominate can nominate up to two proposals: one Translational OR V Scholar nominee and one All-Star nominee (if eligible) for the V Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant 2026.

Purpose of Award
The UACC is seeking nominations for the Pediatric Cancer Research Grant which is restricted to pediatric cancer research. Research on ANY pediatric cancer type can be funded. Research areas not included in this scope are epidemiology, behavioral science, and health services research.

Applicant Eligibility
Nominee must meet all of the following criteria by the nomination due date:

• Nominated by their Cancer Center Director or similar high ranking research official.
• Employed at a non-profit research institution (e.g., 501c3, Section 170).
• Either a US Citizen or a permanent legal resident in the US
• See additional criteria for each mechanism listed in corresponding RFA within the Supporting Documents section above.

Funding Information per mechanism

• V Scholar: A four-year grant totaling $800,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). No indirect costs allowed.
• Translational: A four-year grant totaling $800,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). This amount includes both direct and indirect costs. Indirect costs are allowed up to 10% of total grant amount.
• All Star: A five-year grant totaling, $1,000,000 (paid in annual installments of $200,000). This amount includes both direct and indirect costs. Indirect costs are allowed up to 10% of total grant amount.

The V Foundation follows NIH salary cap guidelines. Institutions may supplement a grant recipient’s salary with institutional funds, if desired.

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J. Pauli (College of Information Science)

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There is no restriction for the Innovation Track.

For the Scholarship Track, each performing organization is limited to one (1) proposal submitted for the same competition date. Institutions with an active CyberAI SFS scholarship project must wait until they are within 14 months of the current award's expected end date before submitting a new proposal.

Each institutional office of research may have internal processes used to select proposals for submission to the Scholarship Track

Per the program officer: The collaborative non-lead submission is considered as one submission from the institution, and limits the institution from submitting another scholarship track proposal.

Program Synopsis
Government and the nation face a talent shortfall in artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. The CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS) program welcomes proposals that address AI and cybersecurity education and workforce development. CyberAI refers to using AI in cybersecurity as well as providing security and resilience for AI systems.

• The Scholarship Track provides funding to establish, or to continue, scholarship for service programs with integrated AI and cybersecurity components (CyberAI). Scholarship recipients must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents and work after graduation in the AI or cybersecurity mission of a government organization for a period of at least the length of the scholarship.
• The Innovation Track supports projects that enhance preparation of AI and/or cybersecurity professionals. Projects may expand existing educational opportunities, curricula, degree programs, educational pathways, methods and interventions, and partnerships among institutions of higher education, government, and employers.

Two statutes authorize this program:  15 USC §7442 (cybersecurity) and 42 USC §18993 (AI). CyberAI SFS aligns with the Executive Order 14277 to prioritize AI within scholarship for service programs. CyberAI is managed by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education in collaboration with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).