June 25, 2025
Congratulations to those who received awards in May 2025, especially the recipients of URCA and ARCS funding! So far in FY2025, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted external proposals in the amount of $89,301,155 and have received $80,711,870 in external awards.
WSU leadership continues to carefully monitor the impact of any executive orders on our research programs. If you receive any communication from a federal sponsor, please continue to forward that information to your respective office of research. And as always, if you have questions about the content of this newsletter, please contact us at research@wichita.edu.
Past and future editions of this newsletter may be found here:
https://www.wichita.edu/research/ResearchNewsletter/index.php.
LAST MONTH'S
AWARDS
DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED WIND POWER FORECASTING AND GRID MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO IMPROVE WIND ENERGY DEPLOYMENT
PI/Department: Visvakumar Aravinthan, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Brookhaven National Laboratory / Department of Energy
Amount: $25,000
BUILDING CAPACITY TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN EPA REGION 7 THROUGH MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY: INDOOR AIR QUALITY: RADON ACTION MONTH 2026 AND EVENT IMPACT FOLLOW-UP (CORE MM GRANT)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $20,000
KEEN PARTNER SUPPORT PACKAGE - YEAR 4
PI/Department: Gary Brooking, Engineering Technology
Sponsor: Kern Family Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $25,000
HOUSING ASSESSMENT UPDATE
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: City of Wellington
Amount: $7,500
PHILOSOPHY OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
PI/Department: Susan Castro, Philosophy
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
ASSESSING INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION THROUGH TEAMSTEPPS: AN EVALUATION
PI/Department: Amy Chesser, Public Health Sciences
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
ASSESSING PRIOR CHOICES IN BAYESIAN PARAMETRIC FAILURE DATA ANALYSIS
PI/Department: Mai Dao, Mathematics & Statistics
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
CONVERTING “JUNEAU” TO GRAPHIC NARRATIVE FOR PUBLICATION ON THE VIZLING APP
PI/Department: Darren DeFrain, English
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
ULL STARCH 2025
PI/Department: Crystal Dozier, Anthropology
Sponsor: Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette
Amount: $1,402
EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF INTERACTION STRUCTURES ON LEARNING EFFICIENCY IN DECENTRALIZED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
PI/Department: Ahmad Esmaeili, School of Computing
Sponsor: State of Kansas - URCA
Amount: $4,500
WSU CENTER FOR LITERACY EDUCATION, ADVANCEMENT, AND RESEARCH (CLEAR)
PI/Department: Jennifer Friend, Applied Studies Dean's Office
Co-PI/Department: Heidi Stinchcomb, School of Education | Kimberly Wilson, Teacher Apprentice, Pathways, Liter
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $321,000
NSF CONVERGENCE ACCELERATOR TRACK G: COMBATING VULNERABILITY AND UNAWARENESS IN 5G NETWORK SECURITY
PI/Department: Hyuck Kwon, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Arizona State University / Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $165,451
WICHITA STATE SUMMER LITERACY CAMP
PI/Department: Karissa Marble-Flint, Communication Sciences & Disorders
Sponsor: Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Amount: $3,000
BODIES IN BETWEEN: THE APPLICATION OF ZEN PRINCIPLES WITHIN ACTOR MOVEMENT TRAINING
PI/Department: Jacob McGlaun, School of Performing Arts
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
SPARK: STANDING PROGRAM ASSISTANCE FOR RURAL KANSAS
PI/Department: M'Lisa Shelden, Physical Therapy
Co-PI/Department: Leah Fisher, Physical Therapy | Jennifer James, Physical Therapy | Kelley Shetlar, Physical Therapy
Sponsor: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $34,474
PHEP PLANNING TEMPLATES PROJECT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $38,910
SCDDO COMMUNITY SERVICE CAPACITY ASSURANCE AND CRISIS PLAN SURVEY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Sedgwick County
Amount: $9,750
HOW TO TALK ABOUT FEELING BAD 'ZINE REPRINT
PI/Department: Marci Young, HOPE Services
Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Amount: $728
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $98,767,169, OF WHICH $98,698,669 BELONGS TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AVIATION RESEARCH (NIAR).
FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES
Focused Funding Opportunities
Please reach out early and as soon as you have found a potential opportunity that you wish to apply for. Early notifications allow the Office of Research to minimize the risk of missing agency deadlines, to fix potential errors, to ensure compliance with WSU policies and procedures, and to ensure the best service from our office.
Pivot is the funding opportunity database WSU subscribes to; you must affiliate with Wichita State University to access the system. To request assistance with a customized search please contact funding@wichita.edu. If any of the following opportunities are of interest to you, please email proposals@wichita.edu as soon as possible so that a grant specialist may be assigned to assist. Visit Pre-Award Services to find out more about applying for external funding.
REMINDER: Funding Agency: Kansas Applied Learning Funds AY 2026
Title: Enhancing Student Success Through Applied Learning
Application Deadline: Rolling until all funds are allocated.
Purpose: “Wichita State University is seeking proposals from programs to expand applied learning opportunities for students, reinforcing its commitment to integrating real-world experiences into academic programs. These experiences enhance students' career readiness by allowing them to apply classroom knowledge in practical settings, develop critical skills, and build professional networks.” Faculty and Staff at WSU are eligible to apply for these funds.
Amount: Hourly wages or scholarships only.
Funding Agency: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Title: Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund 2025 Request for Proposals
Application Deadlines: July 8, 2025
Purpose: “NFWF seeks proposals to advance pollinator conservation. The goal of the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund (Pollinator Fund) is to protect, conserve, and increase habitat for the monarch butterfly and other native insect pollinators.”
Amount: $200,000-$300,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
Title: Endeavor Award
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit up to two applications, depending on type of project and cancer being addressed, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by July 9, 2025 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is July 23, 2025. Letters of Intent are due September 3, 2025.
Purpose: “The Mark Foundation Endeavor Awards support collaborative research projects that bring together investigators with diverse areas of expertise to tackle challenges in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. These grants are awarded to teams of three or more investigators to generate and integrate data from diverse lines of research and transform those insights into advances for cancer patients that could not be achieved by individual efforts.”
Amount: $3,000,000
Funding Agency: Pfizer
Title: Post-COVID Conditions: Potential Diagnosis, Testing, Management, and Ongoing Research
Application Deadlines: July 10, 2025
Purpose: “Through this RFP it is our intent to support educational programs on post-COVID conditions, also known as Long COVID or PASC. These programs should aim to equip primary care providers and infectious disease specialists with the necessary knowledge and skills to identify, diagnose, and manage post-COVID conditions effectively.”
Amount: Up to $150,000
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Title: FY26 Communications and Networking Applied Research N0001425SBC05
Application Deadlines: July 11, 2025 for White Papers (strongly recommended) and Full Applications due September 26, 2025
Purpose: “The proposed topic will develop and mature Communications and Networks technologies for naval operations.”
Amount: $250,000-$500,000 per year
Funding Agency: The Greenwall Foundation
Title: Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking: 2025 Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: July 21, 2025
Purpose: “The Greenwall Foundation is requesting proposals for the Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking grant initiative, which supports the innovative and practical integration of bioethics into policy. This initiative does not fund bioethics research but, rather, supports bioethics researchers, policymakers, and others to take the next step and bridge the divide between research results and policymaking. Rapid developments in healthcare, science, and technology raise exciting possibilities to advance our health and well-being but also raise complex ethical dilemmas. Strengthening the relationship between bioethics and policy can help decision-makers navigate conflicting points of view and find the best way forward.”
Amount: Up to $50,000
Funding Agency: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
Title: Optimizing the Experience of Patients with Bladder Cancer through Multi-Disciplinary Care
Application Deadline: July 23, 2025
Purpose: “ASTRO is collaborating with Pfizer and Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation to offer a Quality Improvement grant funding opportunity to optimize the patient experience in bladder cancer care, specifically focusing on the multi-disciplinary management of care. This grant program will support innovative projects to improve the quality of bladder cancer care in diverse clinical settings in the United States.”
Amount: Up to $250,000
REMINDER: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Application Deadline: July 23, 2025
Purpose: “Supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.”
Amount: Minimum of $400,000
Funding Agency: Greenwald Family
Title: Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence
Application Deadline: Nominations due July 24, 2025
Purpose: “The Greenwald Family Award annually recognizes one or two outstanding research papers on firearm violence and injury prevention. The authors of the winning paper(s) will share a $5000 prize. In addition, the prize covers travel and conference registration fee costs for the presenting author of each winning paper(s).”
Amount: Up to $5,000
Funding Agency: NEXT for AUTISM
Title: Autistic-Led and Community-Based Grants
Application Deadline: July 27, 2025
Purpose: “Through our grants program, NEXT for AUTISM empowers autistic-led and community-based initiatives to create meaningful change in four focus areas: Work, Home, Social Engagement, and Health & Wellbeing.”
Amount: $10,000 for first-time grantees
Funding Agency: HALO (Private Companies and More)
Title: Opportunities for Research and Development
Application Deadline: July 31, 2025
Purpose: HALO promotes opportunities for research and development presented by industry. Opportunities vary greatly. Recent requests from industry partners due July 31, 2025 include “Biocompatible adhesives and adhesion promoters; Novel drying technology for meat-based products; and Predictive shelf-life modeling for food products,” for example.
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Title: Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Application Deadline: August 1, 2025
Purpose: “The goal of the ONR Young Investigator Program is for the Office of Naval Research to identify early career scientists and engineers in academia and nonprofits who have the potential to contribute long-term to the advancement of the Department of Navy’s Science and Technology program. This cohort of innovators will tackle some of the most challenging naval warfighter issues by utilizing transformative approaches and pioneering new technologies.”
Amount: $750,000
Funding Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Title: Focus Grants
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent due August 1, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due December 7, 2025
Purpose: “Each year we invite applications for innovative, high-risk, potentially high-yield projects that focus on specific areas of suicide prevention.”
Amount: Up to $500,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Ataxia Foundation (NAF)
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent due August 15, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due December 5, 2025
Purpose: “NAF is committed to funding cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research relevant to hereditary and sporadic Ataxia. NAF invites research applications from domestic and international non-profit and for-profit institutions. We accept applications across all career stages, from graduate students through senior researchers and established clinicians.”
Amount: Up to $500,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)
Application Deadlines: August 15, 2025 or February 2, 2026
Purpose: “Supports research aimed at increasing understanding of the neural mechanisms of human cognition, including attention, learning, memory, decision making, language, social cognition and emotions.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO)
Title: Fall 2025 Grant Cycle
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due August 15, 2025
Purpose: “Grants are awarded to research, education and advocacy projects that advance FAFO’s mission: to protect and promote the organic industry and the livelihood of organic farmers.”
Amount: $5,000-$50,000 (average grant size $20,000)
REMINDER: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
Application Deadline: August 20, 2025
Purpose: “Supports intensive research by undergraduate students in any NSF-funded area of research. REU Sites engage a cohort of students in research projects related to a theme. REU Supplements engage students in research related to a new or ongoing NSF research award.”
Amount: Typical funding between $100,000-$155,000 per year
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 25-539: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES)
Application Deadlines: August 25, 2025 for Track 1; August 25, 2025 for Concept Outline for Track 2 (September 25, 2025 for Full Track 2 if invited)
Purpose: “The VINES program seeks to support both fundamental research and verticals-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next generation advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum.”
Amount: Up to $1,500,000 for Track 1; Up to $6,000,000 for Track 2
Funding Agency: Thrasher Research Fund
Title: Early Career Awards in Child Health
Application Deadlines: Concept Submissions due September 2, 2025; If accepted, Proposals due September 26, 2025.
Purpose: “The purpose of this program is to encourage the development of researchers in child health by awarding small grants to new researchers, helping them gain a foothold in this important area.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society (ACS): Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
Title: Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Grants
Application Deadline: September 5, 2025
Purpose: “Proposals must be for fundamental research in “the petroleum field,” which is defined in our founding document as “petroleum, natural gas, coal, shale, tar sands and like materials.” Fundamental research encompasses the properties of these materials, whereas the petroleum industry undertakes “applied research,” which is outside the scope of ACS PRF. However, please note that while the PRF Trust imposes certain restrictions, PRF currently funds many topics of current interest in sustainability and green chemistry.” These include, for example, new catalysts and upgrading/utilization of methane and carbon dioxide.
Amount: $125,000 for New Directions; $110,000 for Doctoral New Investigators; $70,000 for Undergraduate Research; $55,000 for Undergraduate New Investigators
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadlines: September 9, 2025 or February 9, 2026
Purpose: “Supports the development of theories, models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can inform the science of science, science policy, public outcomes and the advancement of the scientific enterprise, with a focus on the biomedical sciences.”
Amount: $100,000-$250,000 per year
Funding Agency: March of Dimes
Title: Discovery Research Grants
Application Deadline: September 8, 2025
Purpose: “These grants are awarded to seasoned researchers seeking to make consequential translational discoveries that will drastically alter clinical care for pregnant people and babies, whether through evidence-based prevention, diagnosis, or intervention. Discovery Grants are funding vehicles for research inquiries that are as practical as they are ambitious, as attainable as they are groundbreaking, and as transformative as they are necessary. These grants are given to researchers with inquiries that have the power to drastically improve pregnancy and birth outcomes across the U.S.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Title: 2026 Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
Application Deadline: September 10, 2025
Purpose: “This is an institutional award, made to qualified institutions that can offer a meaningful research experience that supports the mission of the American Heart Association to undergraduate college students.”
Amount: Up to $165,000
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Title: 2026 AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)
Application Deadline: September 11, 2025
Purpose: “To support small-scale research projects related to cardiovascular diseases and brain health at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. The award supports any part of the full range of basic, clinical and population research and development.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 22-165: NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL)
Application Deadlines: September 15, 2025 or February 17, 2026
Purpose: “Supports research and infrastructure that digitally records and documents languages — with an emphasis on endangered languages — through the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples and databases, advancing linguistic theory and the study of language.”
Amount: $450,000
Funding Agency: American Chemical Society
Title: Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant
Application Deadline: September 19, 2025
Purpose: “Building a productive research group as a new faculty member in chemistry and engineering is highly challenging. To that end, the support available to a faculty member in the first two years is critical to developing the foundation for a robust research program that attracts grant funding, provides holistic training and mentorship to graduate students, and contributes to the culture of the department and the professional community. In recognition of this need, the ACS Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant provides support at this crucial junction in the form of a salary for a postdoctoral fellow/associate, who can both help launch the new research lab and gain invaluable experience in the process that can be applied to their own ability to launch an independent career in the future.”
Amount: $125,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2025
Purpose: “to seek health services research grant applications focused on AHRQ research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery. AHRQ supports research in all healthcare settings, including the hospital, long-term care, ambulatory care, home healthcare, pharmacy, and care transitions between settings.”
Amount: $400,000
Funding Agency: American Philosophical Society
Title: Franklin Research Grants
Application Deadlines: October 1 or December 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Franklin program is 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.” See website for examples of current and past awarded projects.
Amount: $6,500
Funding Agency: Whitehall Foundation
Title: Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid in Life Sciences
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due October 1, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due February 15, 2026
Purpose: “The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the changing environment, the Whitehall Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various fields of biological research. The Foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest.”
Amount: $100,000 per year for Research Grants; $30,000 for Grants-in-Aid
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: October 3, 2025
Purpose: “Supports the development of transformative advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities.”
Amount: $1,200,000 ($300,000 per year)
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Small Research Grant Program (Parent R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “The NIH Small Research Grant Program supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. This program supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: $50,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven. Importantly, applicants must propose research approaches for which there are minimal or no preliminary data.”
Amount: Application budgets may not exceed $400,000 direct costs over a maximum three-year funding period
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Title: NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “The NICHD Small Research Grant Program (R03 Clinical Trial Required) supports clinical trials that fall within the NICHD mission. The R03 activity code supports small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 program may be used for different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: $50,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Title: NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research (NCI Omnibus) (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: October 17, 2025
Purpose: “This notice of funding opportunity supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.”
Amount: $50,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Title: Standard Research Innovation Grant
Application Deadline: November 15, 2025
Purpose: “Grants awarded to individual investigators at any level.”
Amount: Up to $150,000
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Title: 2026 Career Development Award
Application Deadlines: December 2, 2025
Purpose: “This grant supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.”
Amount: $231,000
Funding Agency: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Title: Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Application Deadlines: May 18, 2028 (or until superseded)
Purpose: “AFOSR receives Congressional appropriated funding to support broad-based scientific and engineering research with the potential to profoundly impact future US Air Force and Space Force capabilities. This general Broad Agency Announcement outlines the U.S. Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program to solicit proposals for basic research.”
Amount: Research Proposals typically funded between $100,000-$300,000 per year
REMINDER: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities (EPS-WO)
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “EPSCoR welcomes proposals for workshops only from institutions within EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions. These workshops must focus on innovative ways to address multi-jurisdictional efforts on themes of regional or national importance with relevance to the goals and mission of NSF and EPSCoR.”
Amount: Up to $200,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Individual and Small Team Proposals
Application Deadline: Varies by topic. Proposals are accepted anytime unless a due date is listed.
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Applied Mathematics – Nov 1-17, 2025
- Astronomy and Astrophysics – Oct 1-Nov 17, 2025
- Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Biosensing
- Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep & Oct - varies based on discipline
- Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) –Jan 15 & Aug 15 annually
- Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (ECR: Core) – Oct 2, 2025
- Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs (DMR-TMRP)
- Division of Materials Research: Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)
- Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs (MCB)
- Energy, Power, Control, and Networks
- Environmental Biology
- Environmental Engineering
- Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research: Workshop Opportunities (EPS-WO)
- Foundational Research in Robotics (FFR)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- Linguistics –Jan 15 & Jul 15 annually
- Manufacturing Systems Integration
- Mathematical Biology – Oct 14, 2025
- Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 28, 2025 or Jan 29, 2026
- Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
- Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Nov & Dec – varies by topic
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Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS)
- Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence – Aug 6, 2025 or Feb 11, 2026
- Security, Privacy & Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) – Sep 29, 2025 or Jan 26, 2026
- Security and Preparedness – Aug 15, 2025
- Social Psychology – Jan 15 & Jul 15 annually
- Sociology
- Statistics – Dec 1-15, 2025
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF Special Programs
Application Deadline: Varies by topic – click each topic to learn more about these special program opportunities. Proposals are accepted anytime unless a due date is listed.
- Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs – Varies by size of application (Small, Medium, Core)
- Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) – Various funding mechanisms available
- Computer Science for All (CS for All) –Feb 11, 2026
- Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs (CHE-DRP) – Sep 30, 2025 for CAT, CSDM-B, and SYN; Oct 31, 2025 for CMI, ECS and MSN
- Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program
- Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Varies by topic
- Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 1, 2025 or Jan 16, 2026
- Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – Aug 5, 2025 or Feb 3, 2026
- National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) –Sep 8, 2025
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 20, 2025
- Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science – Oct 8, 2025
- Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE)
EDUCATION &
TRAINING
WSU Office of Research Workshops
Topics include an Introduction to the WSU Office of Research with resources and contacts, WSU policies and procedures related to research, finding funding utilizing Pivot, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
Hanover Research Upcoming Training Webinars: June 26, July 31, and August 28, 2025
Hanover Research offers a series of webinars on a variety of topics “designed to help grant-seekers develop their skills and plan for upcoming competitions.” The webinar on June 26 is titled “Federal Funding Priorities in Fiscal Year 2026”; the webinar on July 31 is titled “Storytelling in Grantwriting, Part II”; and the webinar on August 28, 2025 is titled “Advanced Strategies for Enhancing Your Proposal Narrative.”
Register for Upcoming Hanover Workshops
National Academy of Medicine Webinar: How Sustainability Enhances Community Benefit and Resilience: July 2, 2025
“In this webinar, How Sustainability Enhances Community Benefit and Resilience, Todd Suntrapak (President and Chief Executive Officer, Valley Children’s Healthcare), Eftitan Akam (Attending Physician, Boston Medical Center), and Ben Money (Senior Vice President, Population Health, National Association of Community Health Centers), joined by Jerry P. Abraham (Director of Public Health, Integration & Street Medicine at Kedren Community Health Center), will discuss how aligning environmental sustainability priorities with hospital charters, stewardship, and mission fosters employee engagement, retention and community trust, and highlights why hospitals need to have climate resiliency plans for their own operations and the communities they serve, among other related topics.”
NIH: National Cancer Institute Cohort Consortium Webinar: Harmonizing Longitudinal Data: The Maelstrom Approach and Tools: July 10, 2025
“Harmonizing data across studies is a critical step in supporting robust epidemiological research, but it presents a range of scientific, methodological, and technical challenges. This webinar will provide an overview of the obstacles encountered by research teams when harmonizing collected data and will introduce resources developed to improve speed, cost-effectiveness, consistency, and transparency of the harmonization process.”
NSF Division of Materials Research Open Hour – Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER): July 11, 2025
“Join Germano Iannacchione, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research (NSF DMR) and NSF DMR program directors, for our monthly virtual office hour and Q&A session. July's "Open Hour" will focus on the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) solicitation.”
NSF Materials Research CAREER Session
Office of Research Workshop: Using Pivot to Find Funding: July 15, 2025
Looking for external sponsored project funding? Join Fran Cook, CRA, Trainer from the Wichita State Office of Research, who will host a virtual workshop demonstrating tips and tricks for using Pivot to search for funding opportunities. We will also discuss how to find potential funding opportunities that might not be listed in Pivot.
Participants should sign up for a Pivot account before the workshop to practice searching Pivot during the workshop. For more information or to receive a link to the virtual workshop, contact funding@wichita.edu. You may also register directly on MyTraining.
Quantum Partnership Workshop at Sanford Lab Research Facility: July 21 - 23, 2025
The Quantum Partnership Workshop is a collaborative gathering at the Sanford Lab Research Facility, in Lead, SD. The workshop is hosted by the Great Plains Network (GPN) and The Institute for Underground Science at SURF, in partnership with the South Dakota Quantum Center initiative. This event is designed to foster synergies and forge new connections within the quantum research community. In addition to highlighting quantum research activities throughout the South Dakota and GPN region, this year’s program will have a unique focus on quantum networking with an intended outcome of expanding the quantum footprint throughout the Midwest.
Register for SURF Quantum Partnership Workshop
OU Supercomputing Center FREE Virtual Residency 2025 Summer Workshop on Becoming an Institutional Research Computing Leader: August 6-7, 2025
“We encourage ALL research computing professionals to attend!”
Register for OU Supercomputing Workshop
American Heart Association (AHA): Research Funding Opportunities Webinar: August 7, 2025
“Learn about the available funding programs and ways to get involved professionally with the AHA. Plus, a live question-and-answer session.”
Office of Research Workshop: Introduction to the Research Office: August 27, 2025
Join Fran Cook, CRA, Trainer from the Wichita State Office of Research, who will host a virtual workshop explaining the role of a sponsored projects / research office, WSU Office of Research contacts and resources, and WSU policies and procedures related to externally sponsored funding. The workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams with lots of time for practical application and discussion.
Email funding@wichita.edu or register directly on MyTraining.
REMINDER: WSU Information Security: Data Privacy & Security Training, Questions or Reporting
If your research includes patient medical data and you need to take HIPAA / Sensitive Data Handling training, if you have a question about data privacy or security, or need to report a concern, please contact the WSU Privacy or Security Office.
Privacy: 316-978-4HIP (4447) or privacy@wichita.edu
Security: 316-978-4SEC (4732) or askinfosec@wichita.edu
REMINDER: Hanover Grants Learning Center Available
WSU Faculty and Staff may now access course content through the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center by registering and using a referral code. Courses are designed for on-demand grantsmanship training.
Email proposals@wichita.edu to request the referral code to register for access to the Hanover Research Grants Learning Center.
REMINDER: Learn to Use BeoShock for your Advanced Research Computing Needs
Wichita State University continues to host Beoshock, a High-Performance Computing Cluster (HPC). This HPC is available and free to faculty members, researchers and students engaged in course work or research activities. BeoShock runs the CentOS Linux operating system and features approximately 720 processor cores, two high memory compute nodes with 1.5 terabytes of memory, and four graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators. BeoShock also has a variety of software tools that may be helpful in your research endeavors, such as Matlab,Mathematica, R, Python and many more.
Learn more about BeoShock High-Performance Computing and access the BeoShock High Performance Computing User Guides.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
National Science Foundation Malign Foreign Talent Recruitment Programs (MFTRP) Annual Certification Requirement
“Starting on June 7, 2025, in accordance with the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Chapter II.D.1.e(ii), all PIs or co-PIs named on an NSF award made on or after May 20, 2024, must certify annually in Research.gov that they are not party to a MFTRP. Individuals who are currently a party to a MFTRP are not eligible to serve as senior/key personnel on an NSF proposal or on any NSF award made on or after May 20, 2024. NSF is providing notification of this new requirement to impacted PIs and co-PIs. What you need to know about completing the required MFTRP certification in Research.gov: 1) There is no organizational certification requirement, the certification requirement is for PIs and co-PIs; 2) Impacted PIs and co-PIs will be prompted to complete the MFTRP certification after signing into Research.gov using the Sign In link at the top of www.Research.gov; 3) PIs and co-PIs with more than one active award made on or after May 20, 2024, are only required to certify once, annually; and 4) Once completed, PIs and co-PIs can view their MFTRP certification response under the Academic/Professional Information section of their profile.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Statement on Expired Opportunities
“The simplified review framework went into effect earlier in 2025, and NIH has been busy preparing staff, peer reviewers, and study section chairs for its arrival at summer 2025 review meetings…”
Continue Reading NIH Simplified Review Framework Article...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Launching Autism Data Science Initiative
“We are spotlighting this other transaction here as it is a high priority for leadership within NIH and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It also encompasses several efforts of general interest for NIH supported research including supporting data resources, participant privacy, and research replicability/validation.”
Continue Reading about NIH ADSI
TechWerx Upcoming Funding Opportunities
TechWerx is a hub focused on connecting the Department of Energy with collaborators to foster innovation. Upcoming funding opportunities currently listed include “Market Research for Innovating New Strategies for Underwriting Risk in Energy Infrastructure Strategies” and “Apprenticeship Utilization Technical Assistance Program.”
View TechWerx/DOE Upcoming Opportunities
NIHCM Foundation: The Growing Cost of Alzheimer's Disease
Now available, informatic on “The Growing Cost of Alzheimer's Disease.”
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Request for Information (RFI): Energy Critical Materials Assessment
“This RFI seeks public comment on energy technologies of interest, materials of interest, supply chain information, market dynamics, challenges to domestic industry, methodology, DOE critical materials and DOI critical minerals lists, and other stakeholder issues related to the Energy Critical Materials Assessment. Such input will inform the 2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment.”
REMINDER: WSU Participating in NSF Emerge for Industry and Research Collaborations
“Halo is a platform where researchers can discover industry-sponsored funding opportunities, connect with corporate research and development teams, and showcase their work to potential partners.”
Read about NSF Emerge and Register for an Account on the HALO Platform
REMINDER: ORCID ID – Persistent Digital Identifiers for Researchers
ORCID is an international, interdisciplinary, open, non-proprietary, and not-for-profit organization created by the research community for the benefit of all stakeholders, providing a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that distinguishes researchers with record that supportsautomatic links among all professional activities. A researcher’s ORCID iD and connections are stored in the ORCID Registry, in an account owned and managed by individual researchers. The WSU Office of Research recommends that Researchers set up their ORCID if they have not already, as some federal funders may require the use of an ORCID as part of a researcher’s biographical sketch or CV.
View Training Videos about ORCID and setting up your ORCID iD
REMINDER - Wichita Public Schools (USD 259): Advance Notice Required for Letters of Support and/or Participation in Research
Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) requests a minimum of 30 business days to process letters of support or participation in research. It is WSU’s responsibility to have appropriate support from the school(s)/personnel that will be involved in the project prior to submitting a request. Letters of Support/Grant Proposals: WSU personnel who need a letter of support or USD259 participation on a grant proposal, should complete the External-Request for Grant Support form and are encouraged to reach out directly to Holly Wilson at hwilson@usd259.net early in the process for questions/clarification. Research Requests: WSU personnel who want to conduct research in USD 259, must download and complete the Research Request Document. Investigators are encouraged to reach out directly to Will Graves at wgraves@usd259.net early in the process for questions/clarifications.
As a reminder, all proposals submitted on behalf of WSU must be reviewed by the Office of Research prior to submission. This includes proposals where WSU is a direct recipient of funds and proposals where WSU is a proposed subawardee/subcontractor. Please contact the Office of Research at proposals@wichita.edu to get started.
FREE WSU Office of Research Services
Email funding@wichita.edu to:
- Set up a Pivot account and receive guidance on how to search the database to find funding opportunities;
- Subscribe to funding announcements and funding-related alerts; and
- Attend Research Workshops that will help you with finding funding, budgeting and writing effective proposals (and much more)!
Please let us know how we can help you.