Funding Opportunities - Limited Submissions

Limited Funding Opportunity

NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)

NSF MRI seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering by providing shared instrumentation that fosters the integration of research and education in research-intensive learning environments. Notices of Intent and subsequent Internal Pre-proposals are invited from UM faculty or staff members wishing to be selected to lead a UM proposal in response to the latest NSF solicitation, which solicits proposals in three tracks.

NSF Innovations in Graduate Education 2024

Solicitation of Notices of Intent to Lead or Participate in an NSF Innovations in Graduate Research (IGR) proposal in 2024

UM ORSP Research Development (RD) seeks notice of intent by March 11 from PI’s interested in leading (as PI of a UM proposal) or collaborating on (as co-PI on a non-UM proposal) in April 2024 to the NSF Innovations in Graduate Education (IGR) program[1].

NSF EPSCoR Track-4:NSF: EPSCoR Research Fellows

NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (R II) Track-4:
EPSCoR Research Fellows (
NSF 22-535)

Solicitation of UM Pre-Proposals for Limited Submission Opportunity

UM may submit up to 4 applications to RII Track-4:NSF

UM is not eligible to submit to RII Track-4:@NASA

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards 2024

UM Call for Internal Pre-proposals for Institutional Nomination for
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards 2024

NEH Summer Stipends

ORSP welcomes internal applications from eligible tenured or tenure-track faculty interested in being nominated for NEH Summer Stipends Competitions (for summer 2024). UM is allowed only two nominees, and so ORSP conducts a competition to choose each year’s nominees.

The Summer Stipends program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research or scholarly writing. 

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards 2023

UM Call for Internal Pre-proposals for Institutional Nomination for Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards 2023

NSF EPSCoR Track 2 2023 and 2024: Climate Change

UM ORSP RD Solicitation of Notice of Intent to Compete to LEad (NICLE) NSF EPSCoR RII Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC)
Program Solicitation: 22-633
Funding Opportunity for Research towards advancing climate change research and resilience capacity to expand opportunities for disproportionately affected communities
For 2023-24 Competition Cycles

NASA Community Anchor Award for TEAM II (ANCHR)

On August 4, 2022, NASA amended its 2021 NASA TEAMS ENGAGING AFFILIATED MUSEUMS AND INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS (2021 TEAM II NOFO), adding a new, limited submission program element, NASA Community Anchor Award for TEAM II - ANCHR, with an Oct 18, 2022 due date.

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