August 27, 2025
Congratulations to those who received awards in July 2025, and especially to Dr. Raj Logan and “WSU Team Microscopy” for a new NSF-MRI award! WSU will acquire a Super-resolution Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope that will enhance life sciences research in south-central Kansas. With this new equipment, WSU researchers will be able to advance their research programs in areas such as Cell and Developmental Biology, Endocrinology, Ecological Physiology, Mechanobiology, Molecular/Cellular Biochemistry, and Neural Bioengineering. Access to the equipment is expected to significantly impact the academic experience of WSU students by providing them with the opportunity to learn state-of-the art microscopy techniques for their research. Please join us in congratulating PI Dr. Raj Logan, and Drs. William Hendry, Li Yao, Moriah Beck and David Long on this incredible achievement!
So far in FY2026, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted external proposals in the amount of $6,069,241 and received $1,265,159 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
2025 ASK EVERY STUDENT
PI/Department: Loren Belew, Student Involvement
Sponsor: NEO Philanthropy
Amount: $2,394
BUILDING CAPACITY TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN EPA REGION 7 THROUGH MULTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE CENTER AT WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $10,000
CONTRACT 100021 O4 BOARD/OWNERS TECHNICAL, MANAGERIAL AND FINANCIAL INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING/WORKSHOPS TO NEBRASKA'S COMMUNITY AND NON-TRANSIENT NON-COMMUNITY PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS (SYSTEM) SERVING POPULATIONS OF 10,000 OR LESS (AMD 1)
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: State of Nebraska / Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $45,344
FY24-25 KSU SOURCE REDUCTION ASSISTANCE: AIR EMISSIONS REDUCTION OPPORTUNITIES WITH PAINTING AND COATING IN THE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING SECTOR, METAL MANUFACTURING SECTOR, AND AUTO BODY REPAIR INDUSTRY
PI/Department: Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs
Sponsor: Kansas State University / Environmental Protection Agency
Amount: $45,000
KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM FEASIBILITY STUDY
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Kansas Aviation Museum
Amount: $21,700
MENTAL HEALTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE COALITION SUPPORT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coalition, Inc.
Amount: $90,000
SALES TAX SURVEY
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Public Policy & Management Center
Sponsor: Reno County
Amount: $26,740
INTEGRATING AI WITH THE VIZLING APP TO ACCELERATE AND IMPROVE MULTIMODAL MATERIAL ACCESSIBILITY
PI/Department: Darren DeFrain, English
Sponsor: Peninsula Endowment
Amount: $47,619
SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT 2025 - 2026 MULVANE USD 263
PI/Department: Jennifer Friend, Kansas Mentor and Induction Center
Sponsor: USD 263 Mulvane
Amount: $400
JUSTIN WALLIN - FOCUS GROUP
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: J. Wallin Opinion Research
Amount: $1,500
LEGAL RESEARCH - CAPVAMA
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $4,500
LEGAL RESEARCH - NICVAMA
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
LEGAL RESEARCH - RIEVKIN
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
LEGAL RESEARCH - STAVNOV
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
LEGAL RESEARCH - VENVAMA
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Co-PI/Department: Jeffrey Jarman, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
CURVATURE, SYMMETRY, AND TOPOLOGY
PI/Department: Catherine Searle, Mathematics & Statistics
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $200,000
INVESTIGATION OF CERAMIC ANODES AND IONIC LIQUIDS TO ENHANCE THERMAL STABILITY AND ENERGY DENSITY IN LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES FOR AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
PI/Department: Davi Marcelo Soares, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn
Amount: $26,000
STRENGTHENING PATHWAYS FROM STUDENT TO TEACHER: FILLING SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM VACANCIES
PI/Department: Julie Thiele, Teacher Apprentice, Pathways, Liter
Sponsor: Kansas Board of Regents
Amount: $130,000
CONSUMER RUN ORGANIZATION ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services
Amount: $261,764
ELEVATE KANSAS
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
Amount: $195,061
FOOD FUNDERS’ COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Health Foundation
Amount: $34,441
KANSAS COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER SYMPOSIUM
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Community Health Worker Coalition
Amount: $27,130
PEER WELLNESS TTI
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services / Substance Abuse-Mntl Health Srv Adm
Amount: $99,066
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute
Sponsor: Dooley Center
Amount: $2,500
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $16,997,486, OF WHICH $15,683,465 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.
LIMITED: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 25-541: Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed)
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one application as lead institution, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 3, 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 20, 2025. Full Application due November 20, 2025.
Purpose: “Supports the development and operation of a national network of AI-powered, remotely accessible laboratories to accelerate scientific discovery, enhance reproducibility and improve access to advanced research tools in science and engineering.”
Amount: $5,000,000 per year per PCL Node
LIMITED: Funding Agency: Brain Research Foundation
Title: Seed Grant Program
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only nominate one faculty member (assistant or associate professor), Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 4, 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 18, 2025. Letter of Intent (if nominated) due October 23, 2025.
Purpose: “The purpose of our program is to provide start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources.”
Amount: $100,000 (increased from $80,000 last year)
Funding Agency: Alzheimer’s Association
Title: Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant for All (AARGA) Program
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due September 4, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due November 10, 2025
Purpose: “The Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant for All (AARGA) program aims to fund early-career investigators who have been in the position of an Assistant Professor or the equivalent for no more than seven years. The purpose of this program is to provide newly independent investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures and to develop hypotheses.”
Amount: Up to $200,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Title: Quality of Life Grants Program
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one application regardless of Tier, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 5, 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 19, 2025. Full Application due October 7, 2025.
Purpose: “The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Quality of Life grants program offers a tiered grants strategy awarding Direct Effect (Tier 1) grants from $5,000 up to $24,999 to support a wide array of programs and activities. In addition, we have created Priority Impact grants (Tiers 2, 3 & 4) with higher maximum award amounts that focus on targeted high priority issues for people living with paralysis and their families.”
Amount: $5,000-$24,999 for Tier 1
REMINDER: 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.
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Application Deadline: September 18, 2025
Purpose: “The Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland supports scientific, scholarly, or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical).”
Amount: $21,500
Funding Agency: Kansas Water Institute & U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Title: Water Resources Research Act Program National Competitive Grants FY2025 (104g General)
Application Deadlines: Pre-Proposals due September 19, 2025 to the Kansas Water Institute; Full Applications will be submitted by the Kansas Water Institute no later than September 30, 2025
Purpose: “Awards are available only to Water Resources Research Institutes established pursuant to the provisions of section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act. However, any investigator at an institution of higher learning in the United States is eligible to apply for an award through a Water Resources Research Institute.” For Kansas, this is the Kansas Water Institute; contact Susan Metzger with questions; WSU proposals must also be submitted through the WSU Office of Research. Topic Priorities include “Economic Value of Information of the USGS streamgage network and associated National Water Information System” as well as “Model Advancement and Machine Learning Integration” related to water availability.
Amount: Up to $310,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: Retirement Research Foundation (RRF)
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one letter of intent per cycle, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by September 19, 2025 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is October 10, 2025. Full Application due November 1, 2025.
Purpose: “RRF funds research that seeks to identify interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. Preference is given to projects aimed at generating practical knowledge and guidance that can be used by advocates, policy-makers, providers, and the aging network.”
Amount: $250,000
Funding Agency: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF)
Title: Distinguished Investigator Grants
Application Deadline: September 25, 2025
Purpose: “BBRF Distinguished Investigator Grants fund talented, established scientists with a record of outstanding research accomplishments. These research projects might provide new approaches to understanding or treating severe mental illness. If successful, the grants could result in later funding from other sources. These grants are among the most competitive in mental health research and demonstrate the power of investigator-initiated research to bring out new and creative ideas.”
Amount: $100,000
Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title: Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18)
Application Deadlines: September 25, 2025 and January 25, 2026
Purpose: “…to invite grant applications that support healthcare safety by determining (1) whether and how certain breakthrough uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect patient safety; and (2) how AI systems can be safely implemented and used. AI has the potential to improve the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. However, as with most technologies, this potential must be balanced by identifying and mitigating potential risks for patient harm and user burden.”
Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Funding Agency: HALO (Private Companies and More)
Title: Opportunities for Research and Development
Application Deadline: September 26, 2025
Purpose: HALO promotes opportunities for research and development presented by industry. Opportunities vary greatly. Recent requests from industry partners due September 26, 2025 include, for example, “Recyclable high-barrier blister packaging;” “Microbial dust control and surface stabilization;” and “Optimizing water use in cropping systems with water allocation constraints.”
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
REMINDER: 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: $125,000 in direct costs per year
Funding Agency: American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and Pfizer
Application Deadline: September 29, 2025
Purpose: “Pfizer and ACEP are collaborating to offer a new grant opportunity seeking proposals for quality improvement initiatives that will promote the safe management of patients diagnosed with migraine in the emergency department setting. We seek to support projects focused on clinical program development that overcome barriers to safe, evidence-based management, disposition, and follow up of this patient population. Funded projects will describe the proposed clinical initiative’s efficacy with outcome measures that demonstrate improved management of migraine patients, patient safety, physician satisfaction, and/or patient satisfaction.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: Department of the Interior: Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Title: F25AS00228 Candidate Species Conservation Fund
Application Deadline: September 30, 2025
Purpose: “The FWS"s at-risk species efforts are intended to encourage and support voluntary actions that proactively conserve species and their habitats. We believe that if we work with partners to improve the status of species before they come to the FWS for review under the Endangered Species Act, we may be able to reduce the impact of stressors and stabilize or increase populations. Ideally, this proactive conservation work may help us avoid listing these species, thus improving species and their habitat, while simultaneously reducing regulatory burden.”
Amount: Number of awards and amounts vary by region
Funding Agency: Americana Foundation
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: October 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Americana Foundation supports the sustainable development of agriculture and community food systems, the protection of natural resources, and the conservation of early American heritage. Over the years, the Americana Foundation has supported organizations and institutions that preserve, protect, and promote expressions of America’s heritage as a bridge to understanding place and identity and as a means of celebrating the craftsmanship and creativity of early American artisans.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: Truman Library Institute
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: October 1, 2025 and April 1, 2026
Purpose: “…to offset the cost of conducting research at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum.”
Amount: $2,500
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Title: Scott and Paul Pearsall Grant for Understanding Psychological Impact of Disability Stigma
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Purpose: “The Scott and Paul Pearsall Grant supports graduate and early career work that seeks to increase the public’s understanding of the psychological pain and stigma experienced by adults living with visible physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy.”
Amount: $10,000
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Title: Steven O. Walfish Competition
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Purpose: “The Steven O. Walfish Grants, supported by the APA Division 42 Next Generation Fund, promote and support the next generation of student and early career practitioner psychologists to expand the knowledge base in the practice of psychology.”
Amount: $2,500
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Information and Practice Needs Relevant to Late Talking Children (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Purpose: “The NIH Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) initiative seeks to support activities to better understand early language learning and delay. NIH TALK invites applications for research projects that aim to better understand the information and practice needs of caregivers, professionals, and other invested parties who support late talking children and to determine whether those needs are being effectively met.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: EDU Core Research (ECR: Core)
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Purpose: “Supports research on STEM education in one or more of three research areas: STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.”
Amount: $500,000-$2,500,000 depending on level
Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA): Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
Title: Competitive Grants Program: Foundational and Applied Science Program
Application Deadlines: October 2 – October 30, 2025
Purpose: “AFRI is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences.” Topics vary greatly; Examples of topics due in October include: “Foundational Knowledge of Agricultural Production Systems;” “Plant Breeding for Agricultural Production;” and “Food and Human Health.”
Amount: $50,000-$800,000; varies based on topic and type of project.
Funding Agency: State of Kansas Internal Funds for WSU Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty
Title: MURPA FY26, URCA FY26
Application Deadline: October 3, 2025
Purpose: “Multidisciplinary Research Project Awards (MURPAs) are for projects that involve two or more investigators from different disciplines that focus different perspectives and capabilities on complex problems that intersect established areas of study. The University Research/Creative Projects Awards (URCAs) are to retool or reestablish productive research/creative projects agenda. In areas where external funding is available, the URCA may be used as seed money to develop pilot data.”
Amount: $7,500 for MURPA, $4,500 for URCA
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Application Deadline: October 3, 2025
Purpose: “Supports high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research that combines computing, engineering, data science and behavioral and cognitive sciences to tackle biomedical and public health challenges and drive transformative health innovations.”
Amount: $1,200,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2025
Purpose: “…to improve screening and early detection strategies and to develop accurate diagnostic techniques and methods for predicting the course of disease in cancer patients.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $499,000 (direct costs) per year.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2025
Purpose: “To meet a growing need for investigators trained in biomedical informatics research and data science by training qualified pre- and post-doctoral candidates; to conduct research in biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and related computer, information and data sciences; to facilitate management of electronic health records and clinical research data; to prepare scholarly works in biomedicine and health; to advance biocomputing and bioinformatics through participation in Federal initiatives relating to biomedical informatics, bioinformatics and biomedical computing; and to stimulate and foster scientific and technological innovation through cooperative research development carried out between small business concerns and research institutions.”
Amount: Application budgets are expected to be no more than $250,000 per year in direct costs and should reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Application Deadline: October 5, 2025
Purpose: “NIMH seeks applications that will study methods to increase access to, and quality of, empirically-supported practices for youth mental health.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadline: October 6, 2025
Purpose: “The AERA Grants Program provides Research Grants to faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral level scholars. The aim of the program is to advance fundamental knowledge of relevance to STEM education policy, foster significant science using education data, and build research capacity in education and learning.”
Amount: $25,000-$35,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI)
Application Deadline: October 10, 2025
Purpose: “Supports research collaborations between mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, engineers and social behavior scientists to establish innovative and principled design and analysis approaches for AI technology.”
Amount: $500,000-$1,500,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Co-Infection and Cancer (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…to demonstrate feasibility and potential utility of new capabilities or improvements in quality, speed, efficacy, operability, costs, and/or accessibility of solutions to problems in basic biomedical, pre-clinical, or clinical research, clinical care delivery, or accessibility.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection and cancer to shed light on presently unestablished pathways in carcinogenesis that may inform prevention and treatment strategies for infection-related cancers.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Project Grant (Parent R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…supports exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. These studies may involve considerable risk but may lead to a breakthrough in a particular area, or to the development of novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models, or applications that could have a major impact on a field of biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…will support meritorious projects to provide needed scientific insight to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and/or care for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias.”
Amount: Applications may request budgets of up to $100,000 in direct costs per year for up to two years.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…to invite applications proposing new tests, animal models, techniques, etc. to advance research on Alzheimer's disease and its related dementias that need additional preliminary data with broader dissemination to establish them for more general use in this research field.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Title: Basic Research in Cancer Health Disparities (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…encourages grant applications from investigators interested in conducting basic research studies into the biological/genetic causes and mechanisms of cancer health disparities.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Title: Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Deadline: October 16, 2025
Purpose: “…applications that focus on different aspects of cancer control by modifying behavior, screening, and understanding etiologic factors contributing to the development of cancer, and developing ways to control cancer.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution
Application Deadlines: Vision Statement/Letter of Intent due October 16, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due April 30, 2026
Purpose: “The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division is now seeking vision statements to identify new, emerging breakthrough areas of ecology and evolution that are poised for high-impact funding by the Simons Foundation. We are interested in idea-generating research that focuses on basic principles of ecological and evolutionary dynamics, especially their interface, and that may be overlooked or too risky for other funding organizations.”
Amount: $1-4 million per year
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Application Deadline: October 20, 2025
Purpose: “…to encourage applications that focus on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental illness, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology, as well as intervention/services research focused on examining the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary utility of social-media focused interventions and services.”
Amount: The combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $275,000.
Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation (APF)
Title: John and Polly Sparks Grant for Rural First-Responders Mental Health Interventions
Application Deadline: October 23, 2025
Purpose: “The John and Polly Sparks First-Responder Grant for Rural First-Responders Mental Health Interventions will fund the research of psychologists for evidence-based research and intervention in providing mental health training dissemination to first responders in rural areas. The John and Polly Sparks First-Responder Grant will fund research to examine evidence-based interventions to protect the mental health of first responders in rural areas, conducted by psychologists. APF seeks projects whose results can be replicated throughout the targeted demographic. APF seeks to fund projects that will have an impact on the field and aims for the “multiplier effect,” that is, the ability of researchers to leverage the John and Polly Sparks grant by identifying further funding to expand their projects and increase the impact.”
Amount: $34,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 25, 2025
Purpose: “…to support small scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from the NIH, with an emphasis on providing biomedical research experiences primarily for undergraduate students, and enhancing the research environment at applicant institutions.”
Amount: Applicants may request up to $375,000 in direct costs, excluding consortium F&A, for the entire project period of up to 3 years.
Funding Agency: NIHCM Foundation
Title: Journalism Grants
Application Deadline: October 27, 2025
Purpose: “…supports health reporting and education projects for journalists that have the potential to inform managed care organizations, policymakers, health care consumers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care, as well as raise awareness about health issues in ways that improve health and health care. Journalists from national and local print, digital, broadcast, nonprofit and for-profit news organizations, as well as freelancers, are welcome to apply.” See website for details on topics of interest to this sponsor.
Amount: Not specified; total available funding is $500,000
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due October 29, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due February 25, 2026
Purpose: “The aim of the Simons Collaborations in MPS program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science.”
Amount: $2 million per year
Funding Agency: Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation (PERF)
Title: Infrastructure / Registry Research Grant in Any Area of Pediatric Neurology
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due October 30, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due April 15, 2026
Purpose: “This competitive grant is directed at developing a new multicenter infrastructure, (registries and networks), or enhancing the scientific scope of an existing multicenter infrastructure program to enable advancement of clinical and health-services research. New multicenter infrastructure -Multicenter registries or networks must include a minimum of three (3) separate academic institutions (sites) that actively enroll participants. (Note: Some preliminary work must have preceded this application to be responsive to this call for applications.).”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: Better Scientific Software (BSSw)
Title: Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: October 31, 2025
Purpose: “The main goal of the BSSw Fellowship program is to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes. We also anticipate accumulating a growing community of BSSw Fellowship alums who can serve as leaders, mentors, and consultants to increase the visibility of those involved in scientific software production and sustainability in the pursuit of scientific discovery. BSSw Fellows are selected annually based on an application process that includes the proposal of a funded activity that promotes better scientific software through a publicly available artifact. The BSSw Fellowship is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Title: Community Action Grants
Application Deadline: Letter of Interests due October 31, 2025
Purpose: “AAUW Community Action Grants seek to dismantle barriers to girls’ participation in STEM and create a pipeline of diverse talent in these fields. Community Action Grants fund innovative, community-based programs that create pathways for K-12 girls to develop STEM confidence, skills, and identity — encouraging them to pursue STEM higher education and careers.”
Amount: Up to $75,000
Funding Agency: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Title: Post-PhD Research Grant
Application Deadline: November 1, 2025
Purpose: “NACADA research support is intended to facilitate research related to academic advising. Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodologies are welcome, as is research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Program assessment is not funded. Successful proposals will clearly describe the development, implementation, analysis, and reporting of rigorous inquiry that investigates academic advising’s impact, context, or theoretical basis.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising
Title: Advancing Academic Advising Research
Application Deadlines: November 1, 2025 and April 15, 2026
Purpose: “NACADA research support is intended to facilitate research related to academic advising. Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methodologies are welcome, as is research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Program assessment is not funded. Successful proposals will clearly describe the development, implementation, analysis, and reporting of rigorous inquiry that investigates academic advising’s impact, context, or theoretical basis.”
Amount: $500-$5.000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 23-624 Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL)
Application Deadline: November 4, 2025
Purpose: “Supports early-stage research in emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and immersive or augmenting technologies for teaching and learning that respond to pressing needs in real-world educational environments.”
Amount: $900,000
LIMITED: Funding Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: National Digital Newspaper Program
Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one application, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by November 6, 2025 at 12noon, in case an internal competition is needed. The goal date for informing you if you have been chosen to proceed is November 20, 2025. Full Application due January 15, 2026.
Purpose: “…to create a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. jurisdictions.”
Amount: Up to $325,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 20-558: PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF)
Application Deadline: November 12, 2025
Purpose: “Supports engineering faculty to develop expertise in conducting research on engineering education.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE)
Application Deadline: November 14, 2025 for Track 2
Purpose: “Supports the development of innovative approaches that foster open, inclusive and equitable scientific practices, enhancing geoscience research, education and capacity building through enhanced information resources and collaborative tools.”
Amount: $1,000,000 for Track 2 projects
Funding Agency: The Gerber Foundation
Title: Research Grants
Application Deadlines: November 15, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due February 15, 2026
Purpose: “The Foundation’s mission focuses on infants and young children. Accordingly, priority is given to projects that improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.”
Amount: $30,000 for Novice Research Awards; $350,000 for Major Research Awards
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: November 18, 2025
Purpose: “This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) will support research towards understanding and mitigating the deleterious effects of acute exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic (UPS) opioids (e.g., fentanyl, carfentanil, nitazenes) and their combinations (e.g., fentanyl and xylazine). This NOFO will also support research on the persistent and/or delayed pathophysiological effects after acute exposure to such agents.”
Amount: Application budgets are limited to $300,000 direct costs per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: American Lung Association
Application Deadline: December 1, 2025
Purpose: “Today, through our Research Institute, we continue to support trailblazing research, novel ideas and innovative approaches with the goal of eliminating lung disease and improving life for those living with lung disease.”
Amount: $50,000 per year for Catalyst Awards and Public Health and Public Policy Awards; $75,000 per year for Innovation Awards; and between $50,000 and $100,000 per year for Indoor Air Awards.
Funding Agency: Institute for Citizens and Scholars
Title: Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) Award
Application Deadline: December 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) are building campus communities through their teaching, scholarship, and service. Awardees are early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society. In addition to bringing perspectives to their fields, MEFL awardees are building support systems and networks for their students and peers.”
Amount: $20,000 stipend
Funding Agency: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma)
Title: Sigma/Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Grant
Application Deadline: December 1, 2025
Purpose: “The Sigma/Council for Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) grant encourages qualified nurses to improve the health of the world’s people through research. Proposals for clinical, educational or historical research, including plans for broadly disseminating the research findings, may be submitted for the grant.”
Amount: Up to $5,000
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Title: 2026 Career Development Award
Application Deadline: 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: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Title: Scholarly Editions and Translations
Application Deadline: December 3, 2025
Purpose: “The Scholarly Editions and Translations program provides grants to organizations to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations. Works from any humanities field may be the subject of an edition.”
Amount: Up to $65,000 for Planning Grants; Up to $300,000 plus matching funds for Implementation projects; Note, additional funding may be available for those working closely with scholars in Greece or Israel
Funding Agency: American Heart Association (AHA)
Title: 2026 Innovative Project Award
Application Deadlines: Pre-Proposals due December 10, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due March 5, 2026
Purpose: “To support highly innovative, high-impact research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE)
Application Deadlines: Preliminary Proposal due January 13, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due April 28, 2026
Purpose: “Supports efforts to address safety, security and privacy vulnerabilities in open-source ecosystems to enhance their resilience and ability to manage current and future risks.”
Amount: $1,500,000
REMINDER: 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: 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 “Solar Training and Education for Professionals: Enabling Informed Consumer Choice,” “Building Access to Tribal Energy Resilience” and “Apprenticeship Utilization Technical Assistance Program.”
Funding Agency: Novartis
Title: Varies: Professional Medical Education Grants
Application Deadline: Ongoing, Applications accepted anytime
“Our mission is to support high quality educational programs for U.S. Health Care Professionals that will improve patient care. We will evaluate professional medical education grant requests that are independent of commercial bias and non-promotional in nature. Professional medical education grants can be requested to support a variety of different activities, including live events, web-based education, and enduring materials.” See website for list of disease areas of interest.
Amount: Not Specified
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
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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
- 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) –tbd
- 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.
Office of Research Workshop: Introduction to the Research Office: August 27, 2025 at 3:30pm
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.
U.S. EPA: Computational Toxicology Communities of Practice: Accessing Chemistry, Bioactivity, Exposure, and Hazard Data: August 28, 2025
“As part of EPA’s commitment to provide “open data”, the Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CTX) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow access to many of EPA’s computational toxicology and exposure data resources. CTX APIs allow users to access and download information from various databases, such as data used to populate the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, and effectively integrate data into their workflows. The CTX APIs are publicly available for anyone to access and use. This webinar will cover API basics and highlight available CTX data resources.”
EPA Toxicology Communities of Practice
Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education: Webinar Series: August 29, 2025 and through June 2026
“This event marks the launch of a new bimonthly webinar series for researchers, community-based organizations, and other leaders in firearm violence prevention. Designed to strengthen the capacity, confidence, and visibility of those advancing solutions to prevent firearm-related violence.”
Register and Learn More about Upcoming Kaiser Permanente Center Webinars
National Academies: Assessing Research Security Efforts in Higher Education – Meeting of Experts 2: September 4, 2025
“This meeting of experts will convey the views of individuals on how the U.S. Department of Defense specifically might organize and conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of its research security and protection initiatives, with reference to initiatives at other federal agencies, as appropriate.”
Register for National Academies Webinar on Research Security
NSF ACCESS Support: COMPLECS: Linux Tools for Text Processing: September 4, 2025
“Many computational and data processing workloads require pre-processing input files to get the data into a format compatible with the user’s application and/or post-processing output files to extract key results for further analysis. While these operations could be done by hand, they tend to be time-consuming, tedious, and, worst of all, error-prone. In this session, we cover the Linux tools awk, sed, grep, sort, head, tail, cut, paste, cat, and split, which will help users to automate repetitive tasks easily. We conclude by showing how large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT could be used to write commands using these tools.”
Register for COMPLECS Workshop
NSF ACCESS Support: Python for HPC: September 9, 2025
“In this session, we will explore two transformative Python technologies—Numba and Dask—that empower researchers to bridge the gap between Python’s flexibility and the performance demands of supercomputing environments. These tools unlock new possibilities for accelerating computationally intensive tasks and scaling workflows across clusters.”
Register for Python for HPC Workshop
NSF ACCESS PSC/CMU/PITT Open Hackathon: September 9-18, 2025
“Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and the University of Pittsburgh will host a virtual Open Hackathon starting September 9 and concluding September 18. The PSC/CMU/PITT Open Hackathon is a collaborative, hands-on coding event that pairs participating teams with dedicated, expert mentors who will guide them through addressing data management, optimizing specific parts of the AI pipeline, improving or deploying their AI models, and utilizing high-performance computing and AI resources effectively.”
National Academies: Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable Webinars: Advancing University-Philanthropy Partnerships for Sustainable Research: September 10, 2025
“Philanthropy plays a vital role in advancing the U.S. research enterprise by funding cutting-edge innovation, infrastructure, and talent development. However, universities and research institutions often encounter challenges when engaging with philanthropic organizations, including aligning priorities, understanding different operating models, and establishing long-term, mission-aligned partnerships.”
Register for GUIP Research Webinars
NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Lung Sensing and Its Implications in Diseases: September 12, 2025
“Key topics covered during this event will be cGAS in Sensing; Lung Sensing Cells and Cellular Circuits: The Lung-Brain Axis; Lung Sensing Molecules and Molecular Circuits: Gaseous-, Chemo- and Mechano-sensing; and Lung Sensing in Disease. While much is known about how lung cells detect and respond to infectious agents, our understanding of how they sense non-pathogenic stimuli—such as gaseous molecules, volatile organic compounds, metabolites, nutrients, mechanical forces, spatial organization, and circadian rhythms—remains limited.”
Register for Free NIH NHLBI Workshop
NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Symposium: Translating Science to Action: September 15, 2025
“A broad range of influences during sensitive developmental windows from preconception to early childhood can have long-lasting effects on the health of our children. This includes everything from exposure to chemicals and microplastics to the neighborhoods and communities we live in, as well as social factors like media use and stress. The ECHO Translating Science to Action Symposium brings together researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and advocates to translate child health research into impactful solutions.”
Register for Free NIH ECHO Symposium
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): Innovating Med Ed with AI: Insights from the Macy Report: September 16, 2025
“Join us to discuss a Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation-commissioned report on the current AI landscape in medical education and its implications for the future. Researchers performed an extensive literature review and identified exemplary uses of AI in medical education. Among their findings: AI has significant potential to operationalize competency-based medical education. They also interviewed AI innovators in medical education, asking them to reflect on AI’s biggest challenges, including security, privacy, transparency, bias, resource inequities, and more.”
Register for AAMC Webinar on AI in Medical Education
Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2025: September 17, 2025
“Keynote Speaker: John Towns, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Principal Investigator of ACCESS Coordination Office (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support).”
Register for Free Online Supercomputing Symposium
NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar: September 18, 2025
“NSF EAR staff will share information and updates on preparing proposals, address commonly asked questions, and answer yours. The U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) advances research on the structure, composition and evolution of the planet.”
NSF Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
Office of Research Workshop: Using Pivot to Find Funding: September 22, 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.
Email funding@wichita.edu or register directly on MyTraining.
American Heart Association Intellectual Property 101 – Beyond Tech Transfer: September 24, 2025
“This special edition webinar is presented by American Heart Association Ventures and Fogarty Innovation, a nonprofit medtech incubator in Silicon Valley. Dedicated to elevating the innovation ecosystem, Fogarty Innovations offers a variety of educational programs ranging from technical skills topics to reflections from medtech leaders.”
Register for AHA Ventures and Fogarty Innovation Webinar
ORAU & NIST: Advanced Manufacturing Webinar Series: September 24, October 22, and November 12, 2025
“ORAU and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have partnered to bring ORAU’s member universities a six-webinar series aimed at creating opportunities and partnerships between ORAU’s members and the 18 Manufacturing USA Institutes. These one-hour discussions will focus on priority initiatives and ways to get involved with each institute. Attendance is open to anyone at an ORAU Member University, though Research Directors, Research Faculty and Tech Transfer Offices are especially encouraged to attend!”
Register for ORAU Advanced Manufacturing Webinar Series
Office of Research Workshop: Writing Proposals: October 13, 2025
New to writing grant proposals? Join Fran Cook, CRA, Trainer from the Wichita State Office of Research, who will cover the basics of proposal writing for grants as well as tips for improving grant applications. The virtual workshop will be held via Microsoft Teams, and will include hands-on activities including reviewing a sample solicitation.
Email funding@wichita.edu or register directly on MyTraining.
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: 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
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Notice of Request for Information; National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing
“…the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requests input from all interested parties on the development of a National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing.” Responses are due September 30, 2025; Contact the Office of Research if you wish to be included in a planned response from WSU/WSU Tech.
OSTP Advanced Manufacturing RFI
National Science Foundation (NSF): SPRIND Joint Effort Kicks Off with the Launch of Critical Minerals Challenge in Germany, U.S.-based Effort to Follow
The National Science Foundation marked the kickoff of its joint effort with the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND), congratulating SPRIND for the announcement of its challenge that aims to accelerate access to metals and critical materials from complex waste streams. In the coming months, NSF, through its Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP), expects to announce a closely aligned U.S.-based effort as part of the NSF TIP Tech Metal Transformation program. These joint efforts build on the NSF-SPRIND partnership established last year that aims to accelerate breakthrough innovations in critical and emerging technologies on two continents.”
Read More about NSF Critical Minerals Challenge
U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Department Announces Actions to Secure American Critical Minerals and Materials Supply Chain
The U.S. Department of Energy “announced its intent to issue notices of funding opportunities totaling nearly $1 billion to advance and scale mining, processing, and manufacturing technologies across key stages of the critical minerals and materials supply chains.”
Read More about DOE's Upcoming Funding Opportunities
SSTI: EDA Has Cancelled the FY 24 Build to Scale Competition
“The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) recently notified the FY24 Build to Scale (B2S) competition applicants that it has canceled the FY24 competition and will announce a new B2S competition in early 2026.”
Read More about EDA Build to Scale Program
SSTI: Examining the Geographic Concentration of VC Investment in AI
“The dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) investments in venture capital (VC) has been a consistent storyline in the first half of 2025. PitchBook, Carta, Crunchbase, and many others have all pointed to the significant portion of investment dollars and deals flowing to AI companies. With the volume of companies, deals, and dollars involved, it is more than a spike in the usual cyclic nature of VC investment. As SSTI wrote in our review of Q1 venture capital investment activity, VC has been concentrating in larger deals. With market trends and mega deals in AI so well documented, we explore investment concentration from deal size and geographic perspectives.”
Read More about VC Investment in AI
VentureWell Announces E-Team Program
“The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.”
Read More about VentureWell E-Team Program
Anvil AI Now Available to ACCESS Researchers
“Researchers nationwide can now request access to the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing’s (RCAC) new national artificial intelligence (AI) resource, Anvil AI. Purdue University's powerful national HPC-resource, the Anvil supercomputer, recently received an upgrade, thanks to support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NAIRR Pilot Program.”
Read More about Anvil AI for ACCESS Researchers
NIHCM Newsletter: Obstetric Care Access Impacts Maternal Outcomes
“Explore the latest trends in maternal health, including access to obstetric care, mental health, and resources for improving health outcomes.”
Read More about Maternal Health Access
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Notice: NIH Will Stop Posting Notices of Funding Opportunities in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts in FY2026
“This Notice informs the extramural community that, beginning in fiscal year 2026, NIH will no longer post NOFOs in the NIH Guide. Grants.gov will serve as NIH’s single official source for grant and cooperative agreement funding opportunities. The NIH Guide will continue to be used for policy and informational notices.”
REMINDER: 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.”
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 supports automatic 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.