July 30, 2025
Congratulations to those who received awards in June 2025, especially recipients of the Summer Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistantships Grants (SUGRAs)! In FY2025, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs submitted external proposals in the amount of $107,828,042 and received $85,071,859 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
IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POTTING PASTES FOR COMPOSITES USED IN AEROSPACE STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS
PI/Department: Davood Askari, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $4,000
BUILDING CAPACITY TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN EPA REGION 7 THROUGH MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY (MOD #7 - EPA CORE YEAR 3 & CDS)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $200,116
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY EFC REGION 7 WATER INFRASTRUCTURE (MOD #3)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $2,055,872
WORKFORCE INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2025
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents / Department of Education-US
Amount: $57,586
WORKFORCE INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2025
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce / Department of Labor
Amount: $57,586
SUPERVISOR TRAINING SERIES
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Sedgwick County
Amount: $46,085
ROBUST CLASSICAL AND BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF THE TWO-PARAMETER EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION
PI/Department: Mai Dao, Mathematics & Statistics
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $4,000
SMALL MOLECULE PROTEASE INHIBITORS AGAINST MERS-COV AND CORONAVIRUSES OF PANDEMIC POTENTIAL
PI/Department: William Groutas, Chemistry
Sponsor: Kansas State University / Natl Institutes of Health
Amount: $193,581
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL PLANNING
PI/Department: Hai Guo, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Guv Guy Consulting, LLC
Amount: $10,000
DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL MATTRESS TO ADVANCE MUSCULOSKELETAL BIOMECHANICS RESEARCH OF HUMAN ROLLING
PI/Department: Nils Hakansson, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $3,883
KANSAS NATIONAL SPACE GRANT COLLEGE AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM - OPPORTUNITIES IN NASA STEM FY 2025-2028
PI/Department: Linda Kliment, Aerospace Engineering
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $800,000
EVALUATION OF THE GUIDED INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSESSMENT (GILA) PROGRAM (AMD 2)
PI/Department: Victoria Koop, Applied Studies Dean's Office
Sponsor: Cerebral Palsy Res Found-Kansas, Inc.
Amount: $54,301
OPTIMIZATION OF NFC ANTENNA DESIGN FOR A MINIATURIZED, SKIN-WEARABLE WIRELESS SWEAT MONITORING SYSTEM
PI/Department: Yongkuk Lee, Biomedical Engineering
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $4,000
BONE DENSITY, LEAN MUSCLE MASS, JUMP HEIGHT AND INJURY RISK IN NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS
PI/Department: Bryan Lehecka, Physical Therapy
Sponsor: State of Kansas – ARCS
Amount: $4,000
FROM SOUND TO SYNAPSES: THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF EXPERIENCING MUSIC
PI/Department: Erin O'Bryan, Communication Sciences
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $3,999
LEGAL RESEARCH - MUNVSTA
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF RECHARGE MAGMAS IN CENTRAL OREGON'S MOST RECENT VOLCANIC ERUPTION: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF MAFIC ENCLAVES CONTAINED WITHIN BIG OBSIDIAN FLOW
PI/Department: Melissa Scruggs, Geology
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $2,800
PSA: COMPLETION OF FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR INNOVATION HUBS IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST KANSAS
PI/Department: Rebekah Selby-Leach, CTR Economic Develop & Bus Res
Sponsor: KTEC Holdings, Inc.
Amount: $15,000
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF FREESTANDING LOW-COST POTASSIUM-ION SUPERCAPACITOR ELECTRODES FOR HIGH ENERGY DENSITY AND PERFORMANCE
PI/Department: Davi Marcelo Soares, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: State of Kansas – SUGRA
Amount: $3,999
KANSAS SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CY2025 (State)
PI/Department: Brandy Willett, Wichita Small Bus. Development Ctr
Sponsor: Fort Hays State University / Kansas Department of Commerce
Amount: $61,240
KANSAS SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERS CY2025 (Federal)
PI/Department: Brandy Willett, Wichita Small Bus. Development Ctr
Sponsor: Fort Hays State University / Small Business Administration
Amount: $151,374
MATERNAL HEALTH INNOVATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $34,540
WICHITA COALITION FOR CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION (AMD 1)
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Children & Families / Dept of Health and Human Services
Amount: $19,000
FAMILY PEER TTI GRANT AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse-Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $197,145
2025 TEAM MEMBER CONTRACT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Leadership Center
Amount: $32,000
AI IN PUBLIC HEALTH: KNOWLEDGE BUILDING & PRACTICAL APPLICATION WORKSHOP
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Association of Minnesota Counties
Amount: $8,000
PATHWAYS FOR A HEALTHY KANSAS INITIATIVE PHASE 2
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
Amount: $297,534
PROJECT ACCESS CLIENT SURVEY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Central Plains Health Care Partnership
Amount: $2,230
PROJECT ACCESS REFERRAL SOURCE SURVEY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Central Plains Health Care Partnership
Amount: $5,100
PROVIDER SATISFACTION SURVEY
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: United Healthcare of the Midwest, Inc.
Amount: $44,200
YOUTH FATALITY REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING FACILITATION
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Unified Government of Wyandotte County
Amount: $12,500
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $9,880,809, OF WHICH $9,811,704 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.
Funding Agency: Eagles Autism Foundation
Title: Request for Applications 2025
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due August 4, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due September 29, 2025
Purpose: “The Eagles Autism Foundation is dedicated to raising funds for innovative research and programs to help individuals with autism. By providing the necessary resources to clinicians and scientists at leading institutions, we will be able to assist those currently affected by autism as well as future generations. Our Challenge event aims to inspire and engage the community, so together, we can provide much needed support to make a lasting impact on the field of autism.”
Amount: $400,000 for Pilot Grants; $600,000 for Translational/Interdisciplinary Grants
Funding Agency: NASA Kansas Space Grant Consortium (KSGC)
Title: Teacher Workshop Program (TWP)
Application Deadline: August 11, 2025
Purpose: “The NASA KSGC Teacher Workshop Program supports the development and implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics educator workshops. NASA is especially interested in helping teachers bring NASA-relevant material and content into middle-school classrooms.” Contact Linda.Kliment@wichita.edu, Director of the Kansas NASA EPSCoR program, for more information.
Amount: $15,000-$50,000
Funding Agency: Administration for Community Living
Title: Elder Justice Innovation Grants (EJIG) FY2025
Application Deadline: August 11, 2025
Purpose: “The purpose of the EJIG program is to support the development and advancement of new and emerging issues related to elder justice. Funded projects will contribute to the improvement of the field of elder abuse prevention and intervention at large, such as by developing materials, programs, etc. that can be widely disseminated and/or replicated, or by establishing and/or contributing to the evidence-base of knowledge.”
Amount: $250,000-$500,000
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Education: Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE)
Application Deadline: August 13, 2025
Purpose: “The purpose of the TPSID program is to support model demonstration programs that promote the successful transition of students with intellectual disabilities into higher education and to enable institutions of higher education (IHEs), or consortia of IHEs, to create or expand high-quality, inclusive model comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities.”
Amount: $100,000-$500,000
REMINDER: 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)
Funding Agency: WITH Foundation
Application Deadline: August 15, 2025
Purpose: “The WITH Foundation invites proposals for one-year projects that defend, strengthen, and expand Medicaid and Medicare supports for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.”
Amount: $100,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by August 15, 2025 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is September 5, 2025. Applications are due October 1, 2025.
Purpose: “The Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program aims to support a more holistic understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world through the creation of new humanities research centers on artificial intelligence at eligible institutions.”
Amount: $500,000; Note, Cost Share is required.
REMINDER: Funding Agency: John Templeton Foundation
Title: Explore Funding Areas
Application Deadlines: Online Funding Inquiry due August 15, 2025; If invited, Full Proposals due January 16, 2026
Purpose: “…supports interdisciplinary research and catalyzes conversations that inspire awe and wonder. Our funding areas define our philanthropic priorities and advance our aspiration to create a world where people are curious about the wonders of the universe, free to pursue lives of meaning and purpose, and motivated by great and selfless love. We welcome grant applications to support field-leading research and high impact public engagement programs in these areas.” Current Funding Areas include Individual Freedom & Free Markets; Character Virtue Development; Life Sciences; Mathematical & Physical Sciences; Public Engagement; and Religion, Science & Society.
Amount: See website for previous grant awards and amounts.
Funding Agency: Transportation Research Board (TRB): Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)
Title: Planning and Implementing Emerging Airport Baggage Handling System Technologies
Application Deadline: August 18, 2025
Purpose: “Baggage handling systems (BHS) at airports are experiencing a significant transformation in their development and operations. It is imperative that airports and stakeholders gain a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of how emerging technologies and software can be used to enhance the operations of BHS, with a particular focus on planning, facility design, infrastructure, and cyber security. Research is needed to help airport practitioners gain technical knowledge on emerging BHS technologies and software and deploy them effectively in BHS.”
Amount: $400,000
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
REMINDER: Funding Agency: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Title: Grants for Innovative Cancer Research
Application Deadline: August 31, 2025
Purpose: “The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period which will allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers.”
Amount: By design, there are no limits set on the amount that can be requested.
Funding Agency: HALO (Private Companies and More)
Title: Opportunities for Research and Development
Application Deadline: August 31, 2025
Purpose: HALO promotes opportunities for research and development presented by industry. Opportunities vary greatly. Recent requests from industry partners due August 31, 2025 include, for example, “Antibodies for milk and soy allergen detection;” “Biodegradable thermoplastic resin for injection molding;” and “Advancing treatments for cough relief.”
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
Funding Agency: Defense Health Agency (DHA) Research & Development
Title: Broad Agency Announcement for Extramural Medical Research: Military Family Health Research Program
Application Deadlines: Pre-Applications due September 1, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due December 1, 2025
Purpose: “The goal of the Military Family Health Research Program is to develop new solutions or refine existing solutions to meet the psychological health and care needs of the military family to sustain readiness and prevent negative outcomes among military family functioning and well-being.”
Amount: Up to $3,000,000
Funding Agency: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Title: Digital Art History Grant
Application Deadline: September 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Digital Art History Grants program is intended to foster new forms of research and collaboration as well as new approaches to teaching and learning. Support may also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially essential art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history.”
Amount: See website for examples of previously funded projects.
Funding Agency: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Title: History of Arts Grants
Application Deadline: September 1, 2025
Purpose: “The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, including archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies.”
Amount: See website for examples of previously funded projects.
Funding Agency: Thrasher Research Fund
Title: Early Career Awards in Child Health
Application Deadlines: Concept Submissions September 2, 2025 (Fall Cycle); 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: Transportation Research Board (TRB): Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
Title: Strategies for Implementing Same-Day Paratransit Services
Application Deadline: September 2, 2025
Purpose: “The objective of this research is to prepare a guide for public transit agencies and other service providers, that presents operational, administrative, technological, and financial strategies for implementing same-day services that meet the mobility needs of ADA paratransit eligible people.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 24-606: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE)
Application Deadlines: September 2, 2025 or January 13, 2026
Purpose: “The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance.”
Amount: Up to $300,000 for Phase I and up to $1,500,000 for Phase II
Funding Agency: Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 3, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due November 21, 2025
Purpose: “The goals of the HCL2030 grant program are focused on four major efforts: Uncovering novel features of cHCL biology; Understanding the distinguishing features of HCLv and applying that knowledge in the clinic; Translating new medical knowledge into clinical applications and testing novel treatments in patients through clinical trials; Applying the HCL registry created by HCLF to examine long-term outcomes and quality of life.”
Amount: $250,000 per year for LCRGs and $625,000 per year for CTGs
Funding Agency: Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education
Title: 2025 Funding Opportunity
Application Deadline: September 3, 2025
Purpose: “Kaiser Permanente established the center in 2022 to scale its longstanding commitment to help communities prevent, treat, and heal from firearm-related injuries or death. The center’s focus on violence prevention is rooted in health care, care delivery, and clinical interventions.”
Amount: $100,000-$300,000
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)
Title: 2025 Data Analysis — Request for Applications
Application Deadline: September 4, 2025
Purpose: “SFARI has generated a wealth of genomic and phenotypic data across several autism and related neurodevelopmental disorder cohorts and has also supported, through external grants, the generation of additional large datasets. In parallel, many other data resources have emerged. While such datasets have already been used to ask important questions relevant to autism, many opportunities for additional analyses and modeling remain, should scientists have the time and resources to invest in these directions. We are aware that further analyses of existing datasets are often not incentivized to the same degree as collection of new data. The goal of this award is to increase use of large, publicly available data resources by supporting investigators to allocate time and personnel toward working in and publishing from these previously collected data.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Public Humanities Projects
Application Deadline: September 10, 2025
Purpose: “The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Awards support projects that are intended to reach broad and diverse public audiences in non-classroom settings in the United States. Projects should engage with ideas that are accessible to the general public and employ appealing interpretive formats.”
Amount: Up to $75,000 for Planning; $750,000 for Implementation
REMINDER: Funding Agency: Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
Title: Grants to support impactful and innovative economic education programs
Application Deadline: Letters of Interest due September 10, 2025
Purpose: “Foundation’s current funding interest includes but not limited to: Leveraging AI to increase student learning effectiveness and experience in economic education; Research on AI and economic education; Developing/enhancing/leveraging capabilities to reach greater number of people in economic education; Economic education programs which have multiplier effect through teachers, social workers, and etc. on the population they serve; New and innovative economic education curriculum and capability; Behavioral economics with a focus on environmental issues; or Programs to generate more excitement and demand for economic and financial education.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: Eppley Foundation for Research
Title: Advanced Scientific Research Grants
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due September 15, 2025; If invited, Full Application due October 15, 2025
Purpose: “The Eppley Foundation for Research was incorporated in 1947 for the purpose of “increasing knowledge in pure or applied science…in chemistry, physics and biology through study, research and publication.” The Foundation 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, such as AIDS, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad.”
Amount: The Eppley Foundation for Research is a small, family foundation that disburses up to $460,000 a year. Dozens of proposals compete annually for this modest sum.
Funding Agency: Sony Group
Title: Sony Research Award Program
Application Deadline: September 15, 2025
Purpose: “As part of one of the world's most innovative and recognizable brands, we are committed to support university research and innovation in the U.S., Canada, India, and select European countries, while also fostering partnerships with university faculty and researchers. The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers.”
Amount: Up to $100,000 for Faculty Innovation Awards; Up to $150,000 for Focused Research Awards
Funding Agency: TREE Fund
Title: Bob Skiera Memorial Fund Building Bridges Initiative and John P. White Grant Program
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due September 15, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due October 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Initiative is intended to help arborists and urban foresters communicate the value of trees and urban forests through engagement via collaborative research and other projects with public works officials, risk assessment professionals, civil engineers, wildlife researchers, soil scientists and others.”
Amount: $30,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one letter of intent as lead institution, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 16, 2025 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is September 30, 2025. Letter of Intent due December 16, 2025 with Full Application due January 27, 2026.
Purpose: “Supports interjurisdictional teams of EPSCoR investigators to perform research in topics that align with NSF priorities, with the goals of driving discovery and building sustainable STEM capacity.”
Amount: The maximum FEC award amount is based on the number of eligible jurisdictions participating in the project.
REMINDER: Funding Agency: Unreal Engine (Epic Games)
Title: Epic MegaGrants
Application Deadline: September 22, 2025
Purpose: “Epic Games has committed to providing financial grants to creative, noteworthy, and innovative projects built in and around Unreal Engine or projects that enhance the open source 3D graphics ecosystem.”
Amount: $5,000-$75,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research & 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.”
Amount: Up to $400,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Title: AHRQ Small Health Services Research Grant Program (R03)
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.”
Amount: Up to $100,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2025
Purpose: “This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites eligible academic or research institutions to apply for funding support to purchase latest scientific equipment that will enhance and modernize research-supporting operations of existing shared biomedical research facilities. Targeted are laboratory research core facilities, animal research facilities, and other similar shared-use research spaces. The goal of this NOFO is to strengthen research-auxiliary activities of biomedical research facilities and to enhance the efficiency of their operations.”
Amount: Up to $350,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Application Deadlines: September 25, 2025 or January 25, 2026
Purpose: “…support creative educational activities with a primary focus on Curriculum or Methods Development. Applications are encouraged that propose innovative, state-of-the-art programs that address the cause, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, or the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients, in order to advance the NCI mission.”
Amount: The maximum budget is $150,000 direct costs/year.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: September 29, 2025
Purpose: “This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is for the SuRE-First Award that supports investigators who have not had any prior independent external research grants. The SuRE-First Award allows these investigators to develop their independent research programs. A SuRE-First applicant must identify a scientist based in the U.S. with expertise and an extramural funding record in the proposed field of research to serve as a mentor.”
Amount: Up to $125,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: Terra Foundation for American Art
Title: Convening Grants
Application Deadlines: Inquiry due September 29, 2025; If invited, Full Application due December 1, 2025
Purpose: “We encourage convenings that seek to generate knowledge and nurture relationships across local and global networks, in service of broader efforts to engage in intercultural dialogues and transform practices in the field of American art. We welcome requests to support convenings at any stage of a project—whether in early planning or more developed phases. In-person, virtual, and hybrid formats are eligible for funding.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 25-515: Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0)
Application Deadlines: September 29, 2025 or January 26, 2026
Purpose: “Supports interdisciplinary research and education to develop a secure, resilient and trustworthy global cyber ecosystem by addressing vulnerabilities, improving trust in cyber systems and cultivating a well-trained cybersecurity workforce.”
Amount: $300,000-$1,200,000 depending on category
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Engagement Awards
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 29, 2025; If invited, Full Application due January 12, 2026
Purpose: “The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program supports bringing more patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community into the research process. Named in honor of the first chair of Board of Governors, this program funds projects that build communities equipped to engage in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER). These projects also help to disseminate PCORI-funded research results to those who need them.”
Amount: Up to $300,000 for Capacity Building: Up to $300,000 for Dissemination Initiative; Up to $125,000 for Convening Support
Funding Agency: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood
Title: Grants
Application Deadlines: Letters of Inquiry due September 30, 2025 or January 31, 2026
Purpose: “The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is an incubator of promising research and development projects that appear likely to improve the welfare of young children, from infancy through 7 years, in the United States. The Foundation provides funding in the following areas: Parenting Education, Early Childhood Welfare, and Early Childhood Education and Play.”
Amount: See website for examples of previously funded projects
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Targeted Grants to Institutes
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Purpose: “The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. Our aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.”
Amount: Up to $250,000 per year over three years
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2025
Purpose: “…to advance system-level approaches to improve patient safety by improving healthcare worker safety and well-being. Patient safety cannot be fully achieved without healthcare worker safety and well-being. This NOFO will contribute to AHRQ’s goal of reinvigorating the patient safety movement by adding fresh perspectives and insights of healthcare professionals to efforts to improve patient safety.”
Amount: Up to $2,000,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…research projects that test promising digital healthcare interventions used at the point of care and aimed at improving the quality of healthcare services delivery.”
Amount: In the R21 phase, the combined budget for total costs (direct and indirect) for the two-year period may not exceed $280,000. In the R33 phase, the combined budget for total costs (direct and indirect) for the three-year period may not exceed $720,000.
Funding Agency: Russell Sage Foundation
Title: Pipeline Grants
Application Deadline: October 22, 2025
Purpose: “The primary goal of the Pipeline Grants Competition is to support innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. Early-career scholars (anyone who is currently an Assistant Professor or Adjunct Assistant Professor, as well as Lecturers who received the Ph.D. within the last 10 years) are eligible to apply. The pipeline grants competition is only available to faculty who have not previously received a research grant (not counting our dissertation grants) or a visiting fellowship from RSF.”
Amount: $35,000 for single investigators; $50,000 for teams of two investigators
Funding Agency: NASA
Title: ROSES: A.10 INNOVATE
Application Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime until March 31, 2026
Purpose: “This element invites proposals to rapidly advance the use of satellite observations of the Earth to efficiently support the U.S. economy, national security, and any other applications topics relevant to NASA’s Earth Science to Action Strategy. This element is intended to support high-risk, high-reward projects that are too speculative to garner other funding sources, as well as boost the emerging space economy and commercial providers of Earth information. All non-governmental U.S. entities are eligible to apply, but private sector organizations new to NASA are strongly encouraged to lead proposals or partner on proposals with academia or NASA centers.”
Amount: Up to $1,000,000 over three years
Funding Agency: Cisco Research Center (CRC)
Title: Sponsored Research Funding
Application Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Purpose: “Cisco Research engages with academia to share knowledge and experience from the ground and we collaborate with research labs across many domains to pave the way for our future innovations. We are funding both sponsored research agreements and research gifts. With sponsored research agreements, we work directly with universities to come to an agreement on a contracted research project that aligns with our areas of interest.”
Amount: Unspecified
Funding Agency: TechWerx / US. Department of Energy
Title: Varies: TechWerx/DOE Opportunities
Application Deadlines: Upcoming/TBD
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,” “Solar Training and Education for Professionals: Enabling Informed Consumer Choice” and “Apprenticeship Utilization Technical Assistance Program.”
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 17, 2025
- Astronomy and Astrophysics – Nov 17, 2025
- Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Biosensing
- Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep 30 or Oct 31, 2025 - 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 – 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 – Feb 11, 2026
- Security, Privacy & Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) – Sep 29, 2025 or Jan 26, 2026
- Security and Preparedness
- Social Psychology – Jan 15 & Jul 15 annually
- Sociology
- Statistics – Dec 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) – Jan 16, 2026
- Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – Feb 3, 2026
- National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program (NRT) –Sep 8, 2025
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) – Aug 19, 2026
- 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: July 31, August 28, and September 25, 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 July 31, 2025 is titled “Storytelling in Grantwriting, Part II”; the webinar on August 28, 2025 is titled “Advanced Strategies for Enhancing Your Proposal Narrative”; and the webinar on September 25, 2025 is titled “Cultivating Relationships with Foundations.”
Register for Upcoming Hanover Workshops
Texas A&M High-Performance Research Computing PACES Program: August 11-15, 2025 (register by July 31)
“Texas A&M University and San Jacinto College have received an award from the National Science Foundation to offer asynchronous and live-training for researchers at emerging institutions. PACES (Providing Accelerated Cybertraining for Emerging Scientists) will promote the adoption and advancement of cyberinfrastructure (CI)-enabled research at partnering institutions through hands-on training in CI utilization, data science, coding, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
REMINDER: 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.”
National Academies Webinar: From Longevity to Vitality: Applying the Science of Aging: August 12, 2025
“Due to a variety of factors, such as medical advances and a declining birthrate, the median age of the U.S. population has been creeping upwards from around 30 after WWII to 39 today. This demographic shift, accompanied by overall population growth, has increased the population of older adults and those suffering from aging-associated disruptions like dementia. This three-part webinar series, sponsored by the Hauser Policy Impact Fund, will explore how policymakers can leverage our scientific understanding of aging to promote thriving and healthy populations.”
State Science and Technology Institute (SSTI): Lab-to-Market Subcommunity Meeting: August 12, 2025
“The August discussion will focus on the national and regional ecosystems for moving technologies out of the laboratory to create new products, companies, and jobs. Come prepared to share about initiatives in your region: What’s working and what’s not? How have you worked around bottlenecks in the process?”
Register for Upcoming SSTI Events
National Academies Webinar: AI, Energy Demand and the Environment: Perspectives on Information Sharing: August 15, 2025
“The projected growth in electricity demand from AI-driven data centers challenges climate mitigation, water resources, and low-cost electricity goals. Many research studies and policy responses focus on how to supply the projected electricity needed for growing use of AI while reducing environmental and other costs, but there has been less focus on the demand side of AI use.”
National Academies Webinar: Educational Pathways for a Climate-Ready Workforce: August 22, 2025
“Join us for a discussion on the roles higher education can serve in developing a workforce for a climate-resilient future. As the impacts of climate change intensify, a growing number of employers are exploring ways to integrate skills in resiliency and adaptability into their workforces. From deploying renewable energy and modernizing the electric grid to designing resilient infrastructure and supporting community adaptation, workers across sectors will be central to building a climate-resilient future. This conversation will explore how colleges, universities, community colleges, and trade schools prepare learners for careers that support climate solutions.”
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.
National Institutes of Health: Unlocking the Future of Health Behavior Theory: Toward Innovations in Understanding and Practice: September 8, 2025
“Health behavior theories (HBTs) are used to describe, predict, and understand health behaviors, as well as to inform the development and use of behavior change strategies. Recent technological advancements and increased focus on social and structural determinants of health challenge traditional approaches to developing and applying HBTs. The National Institutes of Health’s HBT Project aims to identify core needs for advancing HBT quality and use and establish a foundation for future progress. In this conference, HBT Project members and other NIH leaders will report on recent efforts and facilitate collaborative discussions to explore cross-cutting challenges and opportunities for HBT.”
Register for Free NIH Virtual Conference
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
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Investigates Employer Demand for AI Skills
“In this Workforce Currents, we explore the growth of employer demand for AI skills in online job postings data between 2010 and 2024…”
Continue Reading Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Research
National Science Foundation (NSF) Stories: New AI Model Could Revolutionize U.S. Manufacturing
“NSF-supported researchers developed a new AI model that sees inside a factory, understands what’s happening and suggests ways to solve problems, making manufacturing smarter, safer and more competitive…”
Continue Reading this NSF Story
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications
“NIH is providing guidance to researchers on the appropriate usage of artificial intelligence (AI) to maintain the fairness and originality of NIH’s research application process. NIH is also instituting a new policy limiting the number of applications that NIH will consider per Principal Investigator per calendar year.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice: NIH Announces a New Policy Requirement to Train Senior/Key Personnel on Other Support Disclosure Requirements
“This Guide Notice announces a new policy requirement that requires NIH recipients to provide training to all faculty and researchers identified as Senior/Key Personnel on the requirement to disclose all research activities and affiliations (active and pending) in Other Support…”
Read NIH Notice NOT-0D-25-133 effective October 1, 2025
National Institutes of Health (NIH) News: Introducing the 2025-2030 NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science: What Researchers Need to Know
“NIH published the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for Data Science, outlining five key goals that will shape the research data landscape. This strategic plan will encourage greater integration of data science to improve access to and use of biomedical and behavioral data. These efforts will increase the scientific community’s ability to address new challenges in accessing, managing, analyzing, integrating, and reusing the enormous amounts of data generated by the biomedical research enterprise.”
Read about NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Extramural Loan Repayment Programs Guide Notices Available
“The NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) are programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. Extramural LRP applications will be accepted from September 1 until November 20, 2025.”
Review NIH Loan Repayment Guides
STTI Blog: Useful Stats: US patents: A shift towards foreign-owned IP?
“Ever since 2021, China has surpassed the U.S. in Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications, and more than half of all USPTO utility patents are owned by foreign entities, including Japan and the European Union…”
Continue Reading STTI Blog on Foreign Patents
ARPA-H Announces New Program: Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT)
“The Functional Repair of Neocortical Tissue (FRONT) program aims to restore brain tissue, enabling individuals with brain damage to recover cognitive functions. The program seeks to develop methods to make non-specialized cells form into normal tissue.”
Read More about ARPA-H FRONT Program
NIHCM: Research Insights: The Corporatization of Hospitals: The Impact on Health Care Costs and Quality
“As health system consolidation grows, a first-of-its-kind study examines the effects of hospital corporatization, or the acquisition of independent hospitals by health systems. Analyzing data from over 100 acquisitions, the findings reveal an increase in negotiated inpatient prices for commercially insured patients within two to three years post-acquisition…”
NIHCM: Research Insights: Addressing Health Care Workforce Shortages
“The United States is facing significant health care workforce shortages, impacting nearly every sector of the industry. 47 states are projected to have a shortage of primary care physicians by 2037…”
Continue reading the NIHCM Infographic
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.
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Email funding@wichita.edu to:
- Set up a Pivot account and receive guidance on how to search the database to find funding opportunities;
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