Limited Submissions Calendar
A number of external funding programs limit the number of applications the University of Arizona may submit. If you would like to be considered for a limited solicitation opportunity, please submit a pre-proposal to your college Dean prior to the internal deadlines listed below. Please review eligibility requirements carefully. If you identify a program that we have not listed that limits submissions, or if you have questions about any of the limited solicitations listed below, please contact Research Development Services.
Please note that proposals to private foundations may require clearance through the University of Arizona Foundation.
Program Title |
Sponsor | Funding Type | RDI Deadline | External Deadline | Notes |
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| 2021 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program | Department of the Interior National Park Service | 10/06/2021 |
11/09/2021 |
No applicants // Limit: 3 // Tickets Available: 3
Japanese American Confinement Sites grants are awarded to preserve and interpret U.S. Confinement Sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Grants are awarded to organizations and entities working to preserve historic Japanese American confinement sites and their history, including: private nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and state, local, and tribal governments, and other public entities. Grants will be awarded through a competitive process and require a 2:1 Federal to non-Federal match ($2 Federal to $1 non-Federal match). The minimum grant request is $5,000. No applicants. |
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| 2021 July Conservation, Food & Health Foundation grants | The Conservation Food and Health Foundation | 05/12/2021 |
07/01/2021 |
No applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. The foundation helps build the capacity of organizations and coalitions with grants that support research or improve the learning and generation of local solutions to complex problems. No applicants. |
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| 2021 July Data Science Research: Personal Health Libraries for Consumers and Patients (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | National Library of Medicine | 04/28/2021 |
07/31/2021 |
UArizona may submit one application. The National Library of Medicine seeks applications for novel informatics and data science approaches that can help individuals gather, manage and use data and information about their personal health. A goal of this program is to advance research and application by patients and the research community through broadly sharing the results via publication, and through open source mechanisms for data or resource sharing. No applicants. |
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| 2021 July NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Research Partnerships track | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 05/19/2021 |
07/14/2021 |
UA may submit one proposal under the Research Partnerships track. There is no institutional limitation on the Technology Translation track; however, we encourage you to contact Kaushik Balakrishnan, Ph.D., for industry engagement and proposal development support. Contact RDS if you are interested in applying to the Technology Translation track. The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit. No applicants. |
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| 2021 Library of Congress Literacy Awards | Library of Congress | Grants | 01/27/2021 |
03/05/2021 |
A. Hernandez Holm |
| 2021 Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 05/31/2021 |
11/19/2021 |
UArizona is not eligible to apply without the permission of existing alliance. The next anticipated eligibility is for the 2024 cycle. |
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| 2021 Luce Fund in American Art: Exhibition Competition | Henry Luce Foundation | Grants | 03/10/2021 |
04/30/2021 |
No applicants. |
| 2021 Mallinckrodt Grants | Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation | 06/09/2021 |
08/01/2021 |
UArizona may submit one proposal. 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. Applicants should be in the first to the fourth year of their tenure track faculty position and not have current R01 funding. Grants are usually $60,000 and funding commences on October 1. No indirect costs are allowed. Salary is acceptable. Z. Dai |
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| 2021 March deadline The KUH Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Grants | 01/06/2021 |
03/02/2021 |
No applicants. |
| 2021 May Medical Scientist Training Program (T32) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Grants | 03/24/2021 |
05/25/2021 |
T. Vanderah |
| 2021 Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | 07/21/2021 |
09/24/2021 |
UArizona may nominate one candidate. Serious interdisciplinary research often requires established scholar-teachers to pursue formal substantive and methodological training in addition to the PhD. New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. The program is intended to enable scholars in the humanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication. In addition to facilitating the work of individual faculty members, these awards should benefit scholarship in the humanities more generally by encouraging the highest standards in cross-disciplinary research. Eligible candidates will be faculty members who were awarded a doctorate in the humanities or humanistic social sciences within the last six to twelve years and whose research interests call for formal training in a discipline other than the one in which they are expert. A. Park |
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| 2021 Mentored Research Experiences for Genetic Counselors (R25) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 03/31/2021 |
05/25/2021 |
UA may submit 1 application. The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this NHGRI R25 program is to help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences. To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will support innovative educational activities with a primary focus on Research Experiences. No applicants. |
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| 2021 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship | Microsoft Research | 05/26/2021 |
06/30/2021 |
UArizona may submit four nominations per department. Interested graduate students should review the eligibility criteria and coordinate an application with their department head. |
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| 2021 Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations (R24 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | 10/15/2021 |
12/01/2021 |
No applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1
This FOA invites qualified academic or research institutions to apply for support to purchase and install advanced equipment to enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of biomedical research facilities. Targeted are core facilities, animal research facilities, and other research spaces that are used on a shared basis. The goal of this FOA is to strengthen research-auxiliary activities of biomedical research facilities and to enhance the efficacy of their operation. To ensure proper installation and functioning of the equipment, minor alteration and renovation (A&R) efforts can be included as a small component of the budget. No applicants. |
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| 2021 Moore Inventor Fellowships | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Grants | 10/14/2020 |
11/14/20 (Nomination)12/14/20 (Application) |
UA may submit two applications.The foundation seeks to identify outstanding inventors and innovators who harness science and technology to enhance the conduct of scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care. The Moore Inventor Fellows program focuses on supporting scientist-inventors at a critical stage of research to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. We seek to provide freedom and support to promising inventors with the most compelling ideas to pursue creative work. Each fellow will receive funding for three years at a level of $200,000 per year from the foundation. In addition, the foundation will provide the host institution with $25,000 each year to cover costs associated with administering the grant award, resulting in a total three-year award amount of $675,000. Each host institution will be required to contribute $50,000 in annual direct support of the inventor's work. Eligibility: Candidates must be faculty, research scientists, postdocs or other full-time staff at eligible institutions. Candidates must be no more than 10 years past receiving the terminal advanced degree in their field (M.S., Ph.D. or M.D.)Nominee 1: H-D. Kim |
| 2021 National Digital Newspaper Program | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | Grants | 12/09/2020 |
01/14/2021 |
No applicants. |
| 2021 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 04/21/2021 |
09/06/2021 |
W. Burleson E. Enikov UArizona may participate in two proposals. Participation includes serving as a lead organization, non-lead organization, or subawardee on any proposal.For FY2021, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) have been added to the national priority areas in which the NRT Program encourages proposals. We seek proposals on any interdisciplinary research theme of national priority, with special emphasis on AI and QISE and the six research areas within NSF’s 10 Big Ideas. Proposals may be submitted under two tracks (i.e., Track 1 and Track 2). Track 1 proposals may request a total budget (up to five years in duration) up to $3 million for projects with a focus on STEM graduate students in research-based PhD and/or master's degree programs. Track 2 proposals may request a total budget (up to five years in duration) up to $2 million; NSF requires that Track 2 proposals focus on programs from institutions not classified as Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity (R1). Requirements for Track 1 and Track 2 are identical. |
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| 2021 Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) | Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) | 04/21/2021 |
05/25/2021 (Youth) 06/01/2021 (General) |
B. Greene is the Coordinating PI. PIs interested in available categories should Contact the UArizona Coordinating PI and not the Program Officer or sponsor regarding this funding opportunity. |
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| 2021 NEA Big Read | National Endowment for the Arts | Grants | 12/02/2020 |
01/27/2021 |
S. Soto |
| 2021 NEA Our Town | National Endowment for the Arts | 06/09/2021 |
08/05/2021 |
No applicants // Limit: 2 // Tickets Available: 2
Our Town is the National Endowment for the Arts’ creative placemaking grants program. Through project-based funding, it supports projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systems changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into local strategies for strengthening communities. These projects require a partnership between a local government entity and nonprofit organization, one of which must be a cultural organization; and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development). Cost-share/matching grants range from $25,000 to $150,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount. No applicants. |
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| 2021 NEH Summer Stipends | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | 05/27/2020 |
09/23/2020 |
S. Selisker D. Carter |
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| 2021 NEI Center Core Grant for Vision Research (P30 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | National Eye Institute | 08/04/2021 |
09/30/2021 |
No applicants // Limit: 1 // Tickets Available: 1
The NEI Center Core Grant combines three or more Resource and/or Service Cores for a group of R01 investigators to enhance their research, consolidate resources, avoid duplication of efforts, and/or contribute to cost-effectiveness by providing a service with lower costs or higher quality than could be attempted for independent projects by several individual Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD(s)/PI(s)). Shared resources and facilities that are accessible to a group of independently funded investigators lead to greater productivity for the separate projects and can provide instrumentation and facilities that are too costly to be maintained by an individual investigator. The design and purpose of each Center Core may vary in how it serves its users. This program is designed to enhance an institution's environment and capability to conduct vision research and to facilitate collaborative studies of the visual system and its disorders. No applicants. |
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| 2021 New Chemistries for Un-drugged Targets through A Specialized Platform for Innovative Research Exploration (ASPIRE) Collaborative Research Program (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Grants | 05/05/2021 |
07/08/2021 |
UA may submit 1 application. The purpose of the ASPIRE Collaborative Research Program is to facilitate translational and clinical research between NCATS intramural scientists and the extramural community to develop approaches that will enhance the ability to discover and develop new chemistries towards previously undrugged biological targets (i.e., biological targets with no known drugs to modulate their function) across many human diseases and conditions. NCATS intramural scientists have established an integrated NCATS ASPIRE platform consisting of physical and virtual modules for automated synthetic chemistry, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), engineering, informatics, and biological testing. The FOA will support intramural - extramural collaborations to develop additional physical modules that will enhance the platform's capabilities. The anticipated outcome includes identification, design, synthesis, and validation of new chemical entities as starting points for drug development of novel targets, and the expansion of chemical space available for drug screening.Components of Participating Organizations:National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) No applicants. |
| 2021 NIFA Crop Protection and Pest Management | USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | 02/10/2021 |
03/15/2021 |
EIP: P. EllsworthARDP: Open |
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| 2021 NIFA Equipment Grants Program | USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Grants | 01/22/2021 |
03/16/2021 |
UA may submit 2 applications.The Equipment Grant Program (EGP) serves to increase access to shared-use special purpose equipment/instruments for fundamental and applied research for use in the food and agricultural sciences programs at institutions of higher education, including State Cooperative Extension Systems. The program seeks to strengthen the quality and expand the scope of fundamental and applied research at eligible institutions, by providing them with opportunities to acquire one major piece of equipment/instruments that support their research, training, and extension goals and may be too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NIFA grant programs.Ticket #1: J. BlankinshipTicket #2: G. Davidowitz |
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