May 27, 2026
We are pleased to acknowledge those who received awards in April 2026. So far in FY2026, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted external proposals in the amount of $77,289,480 and received $37,343,456 in external awards.
This month, we congratulate Dr. Jian Wang of the Chemistry department, on the receipt of an EPSCoR Research Fellows Award from the National Science Foundation. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Wang on this incredible achievement!
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
REAL-TIME MONITORING AND MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CELL BEHAVIORS IN DRUG-LOADED MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS
PI/Department: Ramazan Asmatulu, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: Flossie E West Memorial Trust
Amount: $36,220
ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED HYBRID INVAR–ALUMINUM PACKAGING FOR THERMALLY STABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE AEROSPACE SYSTEMS
PI/Department: Eylem Asmatulu, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
FIRST YEAR STUDENT ATHLETES' PERCEPTIONS OF CAREER READINESS AND POSTCOLLEGE EXPECTATIONS
PI/Department: Bobby Berry, Education Dean's Office
Co-PI/Department: Clay Stoldt, Dept of Human Performance | Mark Vermillion, Dept of Human Performance
Sponsor: American Athletic Conference
Amount: $15,000
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: $118,178
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CENTER ENGAGEMENT AND PLANNING
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: City of Arkansas City
Amount: $6,300
COUNCIL ORIENTATION, PRIORITIES LIST, & STAFF COACHING
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: City of Peabody
Amount: $8,469
2026 NETWORKED FOR CHANGE EVENT
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship
Amount: $11,550
TO THE STARS EVENT 2026
PI/Department: Misty Bruckner, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce
Amount: $23,760
LANGUAGE ACCESS FOR RURAL KANSAS HEALTHCARE ENTITIES
PI/Department: Drew Colcher, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit
Co-PI/Department: Rachel Showstack, Modern & Classical Lang & Lit
Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas
Amount: $30,000
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SOLVATE IONIC LIQUIDS: A MIXED EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH
PI/Department: Ryan Jorn, Chemistry
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $60,755
THE NONLINEAR RIEMANN-HILBERT PROBLEM IN SIMPLY AND DOUBLY CONNECTED DOMAINS
PI/Department: Mohamed Nasser, Mathematics & Statistics
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
LEGAL RESEARCH - VARVCIT
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: IMS Consulting and Expert Services
Amount: $5,000
IN-PERSON LEGAL RESEARCH – APRIL 2026
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Sponsor: Trial Partners, LLC
Amount: $4,000
SOW TRIAL PARTNERSHIP
PI/Department: Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership
Sponsor: Trial Partners, LLC
Amount: $3,500
FY27 BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
PI/Department: Lyndsay Pletcher, Budget Office
Co-PI/Department: Pierre Harter, AVP for Research and Industry Engagement | Tonya Witherspoon, Digital Transformation Initiatives
Sponsor: Kansas Department of Commerce
Amount: $5,000,000
KANSAS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER OF EXCELLENCE SERVICES AGREEMENT
PI/Department: Jessica Provines, Wellness
Sponsor: Kansas Behavioral Health Center of Excellence, Inc.
Amount: $2,500,000
A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING AND DETECTING GASEOUS VOIDS IN HIGH-VOLTAGE INSULATORS TOWARD ENHANCED ENERGY RESILIENCE
PI/Department: Davi Marcelo Soares, Electrical & Computer Engr
Sponsor: State of Kansas - ARCS
Amount: $4,000
EPSCOR RESEARCH FELLOWS: NSF: TUNING THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF 1T-CRTE2 VIA INTERCALATION
PI/Department: Jian Wang, Chemistry
Sponsor: Natl Science Foundation
Amount: $250,241
WRITING RETREAT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: Bellarmine University
Amount: $1,000
COF TRAINING SERVICES, INC. - STAKEHOLDER INPUT GATHERING
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: COF Training Services, Inc.
Amount: $11,278
ELEVATE YOUTH TOBACCO
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas
Amount: $79,500
WSU TRAINING & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INSTITUTE
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas / Centers for Medicare & Medicade Srv
Amount: $190,345
COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PI/Department: Scott Wituk, Office of Community Partnerships
Sponsor: South Central Mental Health
Amount: $2,300
MONTHLY AWARDS FOR THE DIVISION OF INDUSTRY AND DEFENSE EQUAL $30,100,338, OF WHICH $29,945,543 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: Kaiser Permanente: Center for Gun Violence Research and Education
Title: 2026 Spring Funding Opportunity
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent due June 5, 2026; If invited, Full Proposals due September 1, 2026
Purpose: “The Center funds research to test and expand health interventions that treat and prevent firearm injuries and deaths. This approach uses the same rigor and expertise that has helped treat and prevent other leading health concerns and causes of death, such as stroke, cancer, and heart disease.”
Amount: $100,000 for Research Capacity Building; $250,000 for Pilot or Formative Healthcare Research
Funding Agency: Greenwall Foundation
Title: Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas Grant
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due June 22, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due September 8, 2026
Purpose: “While we welcome all innovative proposals that will have a real-world impact, we are particularly interested in proposals that address the ethical issues raised by the following priority topics: Trust in science, medicine, and public health; Bias and discrimination in health care, which may be based on a broad range of characteristics; Public health crises (related to, for example, emerging infectious diseases, climate change, and the opioid epidemic), including their impact on mental health; Healthcare access, costs, and resource allocation; Recent changes to the federal health and biomedical science policy and funding landscape.”
Amount: Not Specified
Funding Agency: International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG)
Title: Request for Applications for Research on Lottery Gambling and Responsible Gambling
Application Deadline: June 26, 2026
Purpose: “Two-year research grant focused on lottery gambling and responsible gambling practices. This initiative is intended to support practical, policy-relevant, and implementation-focused research that can inform lottery operations, player protection strategies, and public health approaches to gambling-related harm.”
Amount: $187,500
Funding Agency: Little Giraffe Foundation
Title: 2026 Neonatal Research Initiative – Request for Proposals
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent due June 26, 2026
Purpose: “We invite qualified scientists, doctors, and nurses at universities, hospitals and research institutions, to submit applications for research grants directed at addressing both the long term and immediate health needs caused by premature birth.”
Amount: $5,000-$10,000
Funding Agency: Spyware Accountability Initiative
Title: 2026 Call for Concept Notes
Application Deadline: June 30, 2026
Purpose: “The Spyware Accountability Initiative (SAI) is a philanthropic initiative to support civil society organizations that investigate, expose, and prevent spyware abuse and help bring accountability to global trade in surveillance technologies.”
Amount: $25,000-$100,000 for New Funding Requests
Funding Agency: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Title: Innovation Award
Application Deadline: July 1, 2026
Purpose: “The Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer. The Innovation Award is specifically designed to provide funding to extraordinary early career researchers who have an innovative new idea but lack sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. It is not designed to fund incremental advances. The research supported by the award must be novel, exceptionally creative and, if successful, have strong potential for high impact in the cancer field.”
Amount: $400,000 for Stage 1
Funding Agency: ProLiteracy (Nora Roberts Foundation)
Title: Literacy Opportunity Fund
Application Deadlines: July 1 or October 1, 2026
Purpose: “We award grants up to $6,000 to literacy organizations of all types and sizes that are doing direct work with adult students. Apply for a grant to fund your organization’s general operating expenses, such as salaries or teacher stipends, supplies or equipment, space rental, and more. Grant funds can also be used to fund adult literacy projects or develop new programming.”
Amount: $6,000
Funding Agency: HALO (Private Companies, Procter & Gamble, and More)
Title: Opportunities for Research and Development
Application Deadline: July 10, 2026
Purpose: HALO promotes opportunities for research and development presented by industry. Opportunities vary greatly. Recent requests from industry partners due July 10 include, for example, “Novel oral care solutions for interdental cleaning;” “Targeted nerve pain relief” and “Formulations and controlled release systems for volatile compounds.”
Amount: Varies based on opportunity
Funding Agency: John Templeton Foundation
Title: Interdisciplinary Research Funding Areas
Application Deadline: Online Funding Inquiries due July 15, 2026
Purpose: “What is intelligence? Is there anything unique about human intelligence? What if the story of intelligence does not culminate with us? Is the world of intelligences vaster, more varied, and more wonderful than we ever imagined? Might intelligence be written into the fabric of reality itself? Starting in 2026, the John Templeton Foundation will award over $60 million in grants focused on such questions across our six funding areas.”
Amount: See individual funding areas
Funding Agency: TechWerx
Title: Partnerships for Academic-Industry Career Training (PACT) Initiative
Application Deadline: July 17, 2026
Purpose: “Awards will establish regional consortia (comprising academic institutions, industry employers, and workforce development entities) that will create or expand hands-on training programs and credentials supporting the production of hydrocarbons and geothermal energy.”
Amount: $100,000-$300,000 for Topic A; $1,000,000-$2,000,000 for Topic B
Funding Agency: International Center for Responsible Gambling (ICRG)
Title: Request for Applications for Research on Sports Betting, Alcohol and Substance Use
Application Deadline: July 17, 2026
Purpose: “The ICRG invites applications to establish a Center of Excellence (COE) focused on the intersection of sports betting, alcohol use, and substance use. This COE aims to generate high-impact, interdisciplinary research that advances scientific understanding, informs prevention and treatment strategies, and supports evidence-based policy development.”
Amount: $437,500
REMINDER: Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: NSF 22-586: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Application Deadline: July 22, 2026
Purpose: “Supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.” Note eligibility criteria including, but not limited to, holding a doctoral degree in a field supported by NSF, being untenured and at least 50% in a tenure track position, etc. Faculty requesting assistance with proposal writing can reach out to the FARE office: FARE@wichita.edu.
Amount: $400,000-$500,000 depending on discipline
Funding Agency: Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation
Title: Beckman Young Investigator Program
Application Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent due July 31, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due January 11, 2027
Purpose: “provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.”
Amount: $600,000
Funding Agency: Farmers Advocating for Organic (FAFO)
Title: Grants
Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due August 1, 2026
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. Within this context, FAFO is currently prioritizing projects that focus on 1) Projects that benefit family farmers who produce organic dairy, eggs, meat, produce, and grain/forage and 2) Projects that focus on organic soil health and biology.”
Amount: $5,000-$50,000
Funding Agency: Harry Frank Guggenheim
Title: Distinguished Scholar Awards
Application Deadlines: Letter of Interest due August 1, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due September 15, 2026
Purpose: “The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.”
Amount: $15,000-$75,000
Funding Agency: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Title: Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
Application Deadline: August 6, 2026
Purpose: “The Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early-career faculty in the chemical sciences at primarily undergraduate institutions.”
Amount: $75,000
Funding Agency: Americana Foundation
Title: Grants
Application Deadlines: Letters of Intent accepted anytime; If invited, Full Applications due August 6 or October 29, 2026
Purpose: “The Americana Foundation supports … 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.” Note, “Nonprofit organizations from anywhere in the U.S. are eligible to apply for grants under the American Heritage program area.”
Amount: $10,000-$25,000
Funding Agency: American Association of Colleges of Nursing
Title: Faculty Scholars Grant Program
Application Deadline: August 7, 2026
Purpose: “...pilot studies to measure student outcomes using emerging technologies in nursing education. Recognizing the rapidly changing environment for both didactic and clinical education, AACN seeks applications focused on the implementation of innovative technologies in nursing education and how they impact student academic success at either the undergraduate or graduate level. During the grant period, faculty will investigate how tools, including simulation platforms, artificial intelligence, and other advancing technologies, can be meaningfully incorporated into nursing education to enhance the quality and effectiveness of instruction. Faculty will examine the direct impact of technological integrations on student outcomes, including clinical competency, critical thinking, knowledge retention, and overall preparedness for practice.”
Amount: $25,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Title: NSF 24-571: Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2)
Application Deadline: August 11, 2026
Purpose: “Supports research focused on correctness as it applies to scientific computing tools and tool chains, spanning low-level libraries through complex multi-physics simulations and emerging scientific workflows.”
Amount: $800,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadlines: August 12 or December 12, 2026
Purpose: “…to support high quality conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific mission of the participating Institutes and Centers.”
Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Funding Agency: Sociological Initiatives Foundation (SIF)
Title: Linking Research to Action Grants
Application Deadline: Short Concept Applications due August 14, 2026
Purpose: “The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action. It funds research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S. It prioritizes projects that address racism, xenophobia, classism, gender bias, exploitation, or the violation of human rights and freedoms. It also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions.”
Amount: $15,000-$20,000
Funding Agency: NASA
Title: ROSES 2025: F.17 Research Initiation Awards (RIA)
Application Deadline: August 18, 2026
Purpose: “The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) RIA program aims to broaden the base of institutions involved in the SMD research and technology development ecosystem. The program has two principal objectives: 1) Enable investigators with no prior or recent Federal funding to pursue research at institutions that have not commonly proposed or applied to the SMD ecosystem to initiate activities that, over the course of a two-year period, will provide the foundation for a competitive, sustainable, and productive program of research and 2) Enable undergraduate students affiliated with the proposing investigator to perform cutting-edge research in an SMD-relevant field. Funding for undergraduate students is a required element of the proposed project.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Title: PD 23-1321: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)
Application Deadlines: August 18, 2026 or January 19, 2027
Purpose: “Supports research that increases understanding of how individuals, organizations and societies make decisions. Areas include judgment, decision analysis and aids, risk analysis and communication, public policy decision making and management science.”
Amount: Standard NSF Grant
Funding Agency: Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
Title: Grants for Innovative Cancer Research
Application Deadlines: August 31 or December 1, 2026
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.”
Amount: By design, there are no limits set on the grant amount that can be requested.
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Title: 2027 Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training
Application Deadline: September 9, 2026
Purpose: “American Heart Association Institutional Awards for Undergraduate Student Training provide funding to qualified research institutions that offer meaningful research experience to undergraduate college students.”
Amount: Awarded institutions will receive $165,000 over a three-year period for trainee stipends, conference travel and administrative services.
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Title: 2027 AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)
Application Deadline: September 10, 2026
Purpose: “…to support research projects at colleges and universities that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees and have not been major recipients of NIH support to provide students exposure to research and the research environment.”
Amount: $200,000
Funding Agency: TREE FUND Cultivating Innovation
Title: Bob Skiera Memorial Fund Building Bridges Initiative and John P. White Grant Program
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due September 15, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due October 1, 2026
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
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Deadline: September 25, 2026
Purpose: “The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH. The overarching goal of this NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program is to support educational activities that increase understanding of biomedical research among pre-college (pre-kindergarten to grade12) individuals, and to encourage awareness of and continued interest in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).”
Amount: $250,000 in Direct Costs
Funding Agency: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Title: Engagement Award: Capacity Building – Fall 2026 Cycle
Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due October 1, 2026; If invited, Full Applications due January 11, 2027
Purpose: “The Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award Program supports projects that encourage active, meaningful involvement of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community as integral members of the patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research enterprise.”
Amount: $300,000
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2026
Purpose: “The NIH INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Project seeks to improve health and quality-of-life for individuals with Down syndrome. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites researchers to submit applications for support of new exploratory and developmental research projects that address critical needs for Down syndrome projects, as articulated in the INCLUDE Project objectives.”
Amount: $275,000 in Direct Costs
Funding Agency: American Heart Association
Title: 2027 Career Development Award
Application Deadline: December 1, 2026
Purpose: “American Heart Association offers career development funding to support healthcare and academic professionals that hold an MD, PhD, DO, DVM or DDS in their first years in basic, clinical or population research science.”
Amount: Awardees will receive $231,000 over a three-year period for salary, fringe benefits and project costs.
Funding Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Title: Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Letters of Inquiry Accepted Anytime
Purpose: “Exploratory grantmaking is intended to bring community needs and priorities into sharper focus and allow the Foundation to determine whether there is a clear strategy and potential impact in a specific area. Supported activities may include workshops and other expert convenings, early technology development and prototyping, landscape analyses, development of protocols and standards, initial research on and engagement with potential user communities, and demonstration or other proof-of-concept projects. Current areas the Foundation is exploring include AI in Science and Automation in Science.”
Amount: See website for examples of previously funded grants
Funding Agency: FINRA Investor Education Foundation
Title: General Grant Program
Application Deadline: Ongoing; Project Concept Forms Accepted Anytime
Purpose: “Through the General Grant Program, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation funds research that helps to ensure people in the United States have the knowledge, skills and tools to make sound financial decisions throughout life.”
Amount: $50,000-$100,000
Funding Agency: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Title: Humanities Program
Application Deadline: Ongoing
Purpose: “The Foundation intends to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects that address the concerns of the historical studia humanitatis: a humanistic education rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy; ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences that share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines.”
Amount: undefined
Funding Agency: Simons Foundation
Title: New Ideas – Request for Applications
Application Deadline: Letters of Intent accepted on a rolling basis
Purpose: “The goal of the New Ideas Award is to provide early-stage support for bold, exploratory research that tests novel hypotheses and opens new conceptual or experimental directions in the study of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders.”
Amount: $600,000
Funding Agency: Tourette Association of America (TAA)
Title: Support for Research Consortia and Collaborative Research Projects
Application Deadline: Letters of Interest accepted anytime
Purpose: “TAA has historically provided critical seed funding to research consortia working on large issues relevant to TS, including the TAA genetics consortium, neuroimaging consortium, behavioral sciences consortium, deep brain stimulation registry and Treating Tourette Together summit. These efforts have demonstrated a direct impact on the patient and research community. TAA aims to continue supporting research efforts like these, that crossover different scientific and medical disciplines and that encourage collaboration among researchers and institutions.”
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 16, 2026
- Astronomy and Astrophysics – Nov 16, 2026
- Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
- Biosensing
- Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs – Sep 30 or Nov 2, 2026 - 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 1, 2026
- 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, 2026
- Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics – Aug 27, 2026
- Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
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Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (RISBS)
- Science of Learning & Augmented Intelligence – Aug 5, 2026
- Security, Privacy & Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0) – Sep 28, 2026
- Security and Preparedness
- Social Psychology – Jan 15 & Jul 15 annually
- Sociology
- Statistics – Dec 1-15, 2026
- STEM K-12
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, 2026, for CAT, CSDM-B, and SYN; Nov 2, 2026, for CMI, ECS and MSN
- Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Program
- Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects – Varies by topic
- Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) – Aug 7, 2026
- Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program – Aug 4, 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 14, 2026
- Research in the Formation of Engineers (RFE) - proposals accepted anytime
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, utilizing Pivot to find external funding, project budgeting and general grant-writing tips. Previously recorded workshops can also be found on the Office of Research website.
NSF X-Labs Funding Opportunity Webinar on Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging: May 28, 2026
“NSF X-Labs represent a bold, flexible, and outcomes-driven initiative designed to build and accelerate novel platform technologies capable of unlocking entirely new sectors, including new fields of scientific inquiry. The program will support full-time research and development (R&D) teams focused on use-inspired scientific breakthroughs and foundational platform technologies that traditional university and industry labs cannot easily address.”
Register for NSF X-Labs Funding Opportunity Webinar
Hanover Research Webinar: Building Grantseeking Capacity & Culture: May 28, 2026
“Organizations striving to grow their funding portfolios inevitably face critical questions about how to strategically build the infrastructure required to seek, manage, and sustain grant funding over time...”
Register for Hanover Research Webinar
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in Epidemiology: Tools and New Technologies for Cohort Studies: May 28, 2026
“Join the NCI Cohort Consortium for a forward-looking webinar on applying artificial intelligence to cohort research studies, featuring practical approaches to federated data analysis, foundational model strategies, and methods for leveraging unstructured clinical records to support secure, multi-institutional studies”
Register for NIH NCI AI Webinar
National Academies Webinar: Climate Conversations: Brain Health: May 28, 2026
“Climate change is increasingly recognized not only as an environmental and physical health challenge, but also as a growing risk to how we think, feel, and function. From extreme heat and air pollution to climate-related disasters, environmental stressors can affect brain health across the lifespan, shaping neurological outcomes as well as mental well-being.”
Register for National Academies Webinar
National Academies Webinar: Bridging Science and Accounting: AI for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Markets: June 2, 2026
“Scaling carbon dioxide removal requires not just scientific advances, but credible, high-integrity markets. Yet persistent gaps between how carbon is measured in the real world and how it is accounted for in carbon markets continue to limit trust, investment, and deployment. This webinar will explore how AI can help bridge these gaps and support more viable, transparent, and durable markets for carbon removal.”
Register for National Academies Webinar
National Academies Webinar: Can Rural Microtransit Work?: June 15, 2026
“Rural providers face the inherent challenge of covering large service areas with low population densities, long distances to meet basic needs, and isolated pockets of poverty. As suburban microtransit has proliferated across the U.S. and been positively received by riders, rural providers are considering whether microtransit is a solution that could work for them.”
Register for National Academies Rural Microtransit Webinar
NASA Research Initiation Award Webinar: June 16, 2026
Attend this NASA webinar to learn more about the Research Initiation Awards program. “The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Initiation Awards (RIA) program aims to broaden the base of institutions involved in the SMD research and technology development ecosystem.” Proposals will be due August 18, 2026.
OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research: FREE Virtual Residency Introductory/Intermediate Workshop 2026: June 22-26, 2026
“Workshop on Research Computing Facilitation.” See website for detailed agenda.
Register for OU Virtual Residency Workshop
Q&A for NSF X-Labs Funding Opportunity on Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging: June 23, 2026
“NSF X-Labs represent a bold, flexible, and outcomes-driven initiative designed to build and accelerate novel platform technologies capable of unlocking entirely new sectors, including new fields of scientific inquiry. The program will support full-time research and development (R&D) teams focused on use-inspired scientific breakthroughs and foundational platform technologies that traditional university and industry labs cannot easily address.”
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National Academies Webinar: Generative AI in Mathematics Education: June 25, 2026
“This session will describe how Generative AI has been used in the mathematics teacher education in Singapore, and a glimpse into the use of Gen AI in school mathematics classroom. More importantly, he will also present an alternative paradigm of using Gen AI embedding into the problem-solving mathematics curriculum.”
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Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education: Webinar: Not Just a Report: Disseminating Firearm Violence Research for Impact: June 25, 2026
“Strategic dissemination of your research matters and can strengthen your impact. Please join us for this webinar to explore how to effectively approach strategic dissemination.”
Register for Gun Violence Research Webinar
OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research: FREE Becoming an Institution-Level Research Computing Leader Workshop 2026: August 5-6, 2026
“Are you ready to move up as a Research Computing professional? Have you been considering how to get to the next level?” See website for detailed agenda.
Register for OU Computing Leader Workshop
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
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Great Plains I-Corp Launching Agriculture Technology-Focused Cohort
Wichita State University is a member of the NSF Great Plains I-Corp and is excited to share information about a new cohort, titled AG45, focused on agriculture or ag-related technology. Innovators can attend the seven-session program which will be held both virtually and with in-person events between August 13 and September 24, 2026. Applications to participate are due July 13, 2026 and a $3,000 participant stipend is available to support the time and efforts of innovators participating.
Read about AG45 and the Great Plains I-Corp Program, or apply to participate in AG45.
ARPA-H Announces New Program: Hearing Enhancement through ARtificially Intelligent NeurotechnoloGy (HEARING)
“ARPA-H introduced the Hearing Enhancement through Artificially Intelligent Neurotechnology (HEARING) program, a research funding opportunity to develop the first-ever minimally invasive hearing system that works directly with the brain’s own hearing centers to restore clearer, more effortless hearing for people with age-related and other forms of hearing loss.”
Read More about ARPA-H HEARING
NIH: Highlighted Topic: Research on Chatbots and their Usage
“This topic encourages multidisciplinary research that identifies, measures, and explains the benefits and harms associated with chatbot use (both chatbot-based interventions or treatments as well as routine chatbot use) across a variety of populations, use cases, and settings. Of interest are studies that move beyond proof-of-concept to characterize mechanisms, safety, and impacts on behavior, decision-making, and health outcomes.”
Continue Reading NIH Highlighted Topic of Interest: Chatbots and their Usage
NIH: Highlighted Topic: Strengthening Biomedical Research, Promoting Trust, and Improving Health through Bioethics Research
“This topic aims to advance bioethics research projects that are actionable, build trust, and enable better integration of bioethical principles into biomedical and behavioral research. Specific research areas of interest include: Artificial Intelligence; Research Engagement; Informed Consent; Return of Research Results and Other Cross-cutting Issues”
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NIHCM: Artificial Intelligence in Health Care & Evolving Cancer Trends
“Read the latest on how artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies are rolling out in health care and the strategies underway to guide safe and effective implementation.”
Continue Reading NIHCM Newsletter on AI and Digital Technologies in Health
NIH: Helpful Reminders to Ensure Integrity of NIH-Supported Research When Using Artificial Intelligence
“Today, we are sharing some helpful reminders on the appropriate use of AI tools when applying, managing awards, and conducting the research process itself…”
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NIH: Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) Moved to NIH Grants and Funding
“Information and other web resources from the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) have recently migrated to the NIH Grants and Funding hub, which serves as the central location for navigating information on NIH’s grants policies, programs, and funding activities…”
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REMINDER: DMP Tool Now Available for WSU Researchers
Dr. Jung Mee Park, Data Librarian, Ablah Libraries, has created a libguide for WSU researchers who are interested in using the free DMPTool to create data management plans that are compliant with sponsor requirements. The libguide may be found here: https://libraries.wichita.edu/dmptool. Researchers interested in using the DMPTool do not need to wait to have a formal proposal to start using the tool. Ablah Librarians are also available to assist with creating data management plans within the DMP Tool system. Remember, the WSU Office of Research should be notified in advance of any planned submissions for external sponsored funding: proposals@wichita.edu, so that our office may assist with meeting sponsor requirements.
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 are encouraged to reach out directly to Katelyn Schoenhofer at kschoenhofer1@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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