Resources for Junior Faculty
A priority of the Office of Research Development is to assist new and junior faculty at UNM with identifying funding sources and competing for research funding. As part of this initiative, we offer:
:: Help with identifying resources and potential funding sources.
:: Individual consultation and proposal support, submit a proposal assistance form.
:: Workshops, seminars, and training and discussion panels on specific funding agencies.
:: The Guide for Principal Investigators: a thourough guide for conducting research at UNM.
:: In Search of Funding: a publication exploring the process of developing strong proposals and strategies that will help you succeed in your search for funding.
:: Proposal Submittal Checklist (Main Campus and Branches)
:: Email Alert Services: to notify you of funding and educational opportunities
:: Links to useful information, including funding agencie and resourcess, listed below.
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Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
Biological and behavioral aspects of alcohol consumption and its effects.
:: ABMRF Grants: http://www.abmrf.org/grants2.asp
Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy
Basic and clinical research regarding the development of gene therapy approaches to cancer.
:: http://www.acgtfoundation.org/grants.html
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stimulate and support research conducted by scholars and practitioners who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics.
:: Visiting Scholars Program: http://www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
American Academy in Rome
One of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities.
:: Rome Prize: http://www.aarome.org/rome_prize/prize_ovrview.htm
American Association for Cancer Research
Basic, translational, clinical, and prevention research.
:: Career Development Awards
:: AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award:
http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/research-funding--training-grants/research-funding.aspx
American Association of University Women
Promotes education and equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change.
:: American Fellowships: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/american.cfm
:: Career Development Grants: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/career_development.cfm
:: Community Action Grants: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm
:: International Fellowships: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/international.cfm
:: Selected Professions Fellowships: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga//fellowships_grants/selected.cfm
American Cancer Society
Basic, preclinical, clinical, and epidemiological projects. Novel ideas or targeted to urgent problems with immediate human benefit.
:: Research Scholar Grants in Basic, Preclinical, Clinical and Epidemiology Research:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/res/content/res_5_2x_research_scholar_grants_for_beginning_
investigators.asp?sitearea=res
American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund
Fundamental research in the petroleum field
:: ACS PRF Type G Grants: http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1251&use_sec=false
American Council of Learned Societies
All disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, using the foreign language collection of the Library of Congress.
:: Library of Congress Fellowships in International Studies: http://www.acls.org/locguide.htm
American Diabetes Association
Basic and clinical research to, prevent, treat and cure diabetes.
:: Career Development Awards
:: Junior Faculty Award
:: Career Development Award:
http://professional.diabetes.org/Diabetes_Research.aspx?cid=60656
American Federation for Aging Research
Basic mechanisms of aging, including age-related diseases and common geriatric functional disorders; inter-relationships between aging and immunity.
:: AFAR Research Grants
:: AFAR
Pfizer Research Grants:
http://www.afar.org/grants.html
American Health Assistance Foundation
Basic research related to these diseases related to aging: macular degeneration, glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease.
:: Macular Degeneration Research
:: National Glaucoma Research
:: Alzheimer’s Disease Research - Pilot Project Awards:
http://www.ahaf.org/macular/research/maresrch.htm
American Heart Association
Reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
:: Elizabeth Barrett-Connor Research Award in Epidemiology
:: Sandra Daugherty Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension Epidemiology
:: The Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators
:: The Trudy Bush Fellowships for Cardiovascular Research in Women's Health
:: Scientific Sessions 2005 Early Career Development Program:
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200050
American Historical Association
:: American, European, African or Asian History
:: J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History
:: Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants Program:
http://www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm
American Institute of Indian Studies
Assist scholars in their study of all aspects of Indian history, culture and contemporary life.
:: Fellowship Programs: http://www.indiastudies.org/fellow.htm
American Library Association
To promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information.
:: The W.Y. Boyd Literary Award:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=45084
American Lung Association
Health services research, behavioral research, epidemiology, pharmacology and medical ethics; pathogenic mechanisms, lung biology, Lung disease, Interstitial lung disease.
:: Clinical Research Grant
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Research Grant, Career Investigator Award
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Dalsemar Research Grant:
http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.33309
American Mathematical Society
:: Centennial Research Fellowships: http://www.ams.org/employment/centflyer.html
American Museum of Natural History
Ornithology (neontological and paleontological); marine zoology; wildlife conservation or natural history related to the activities of the American Museum; study any of the scientific collections at the American Museum.
:: http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
American Philosophical Society
:: Franklin Research Grants: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin.htm
American Physiological Society
Animal and human physiology.
:: Research Career Enhancement Awards
:: Arthur C. Guyton Awards for Excellence in Integrative Physiology
:: APS Teaching Career Enhancement Awards
:: Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award
:: Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award:
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/society.htm
American Psychological Association
Psychophysiological and behavioral research to explicate the concept of the human mind.
:: Frank Joseph McGuigan Young Investigator Prize: http://www.apa.org/apf/grants.html
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Research and teaching plan in ASHRAE’s areas of interest.
:: ASHRAE New Investigator Award: http://xp20.ashrae.org/RESEARCH/newinvest.htm
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Communication sciences and disorders.
:: New Investigator Research Grants
:: Research Grant in Speech Science:
http://www.ashfoundation.org/Foundation/grants/research_grants.htm
American Youth Policy Forum
Significant issues in youth policy, practice, research or program evaluation focusing particularly on disadvantaged youth.
:: Harold Howe II Youth Policy Fellowship:
http://www.aypf.org/new/index.htm
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association
Cause, means of prevention and possible cure of ALS; clinical management, incl. speech/ communication, mobility/daily living, and mental health/psychosocial issues.
:: Scientific Research Grant Program - Starter Grants: http://www.alsa.org/research/process.cfm?CFID=...
Arthritis Foundation
Research in arthritis-related fields.
:: Training Awards
:: Career Development Awards:
http://www.arthritis.org/information-for-researchers.php
Association for the Sociology of Religion
Women and religion, gender issues, and feminist perspectives on religion
Fichter Research Grant Competition
http://www.sociologyofreligion.com
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Beckman (Arnold and Mabel) Foundation
Chemistry and the life sciences.
:: Beckman Young Investigator Program: http://www.beckman-foundation.com/byi.html
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Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Studies people of African descent using the methods of history, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and the arts.
:: Fellowships and Grants: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/fellow&grants/indexfellow.html
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
The treatment and cure for spinal cord injuries.
:: http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.geIMLPOpGjF/b.1029249/k.AF7F/Research_Programs.htm
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Foster international scholarly exchange primarily through sponsership of fellowship programs which allow pre-doctoral and senior scholars to pursue independent re search important to the increase of knowledge and to our understanding of foreign cultures.
:: http://www.caorc.org/fellowships
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
Etiology, pathogenesis, therapy and prevention of inflammatory bowel diseases.
:: Career Development Awards: http://www.ccfaprofessionals.org
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
:: Neurofibromatosis Research Program: Young Investigator Award
:: Prostate Cancer Research Program: Young Investigator: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/nfrparchive.htm
Cure Autism Now
Basic to clinical studies to increase knowledge in critical areas of autism.
:: Young Investigator Awards
:: Pilot Research Awards: http://www.autismspeaks.org
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
:: National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program: Standard Strengthening Research
:: Project Awards: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/funding.cfm
Department of Defense (DOD) - Air Force Office of Scientific Research
:: Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
(The complete list of agencies participating in the PECASE awards are: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
National Science Foundation)
http://www.sc.doe.gov/Accomplishments_Awards/PECASE/PECASE.htm
Department of Energy (DOE)
Science, technology, mathematics and engineering related to energy.
:: Office of Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program
:: Early Career Principal Investigator Program in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and High-Performance Networks
:: High Energy Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program
:: Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Program:
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/grants.html
http://www.sc.doe.gov/grants/grants.html
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Urban development and housing topics, including homeownership, housing market conditions, equal opportunity and access to housing, homelessness, faith- based and community-based partnerships, assisted housing programs.
:: Urban Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program:
http://www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm
Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice (DOJ, NIJ)
Knowledge of the confluence of crime, justice, and culture in various societal contexts.
:: W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/welcome.htm
Dreyfus (Camille & Henry) Foundation (*limited competition)
Chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry.
:: New Faculty Awards Program: http://www.dreyfus.org
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Epilepsy Foundation
Basic mechanisms, new therapeutic approaches, behavioral and psychosocial aspects of epilepsy.
:: Research Grants Program: http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/research/grants.cfm
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Foundation for Child Development
Fundamental and policy-relevant research re: the development of immigrant children from birth to age ten.
:: Young Scholars Program - Changing Faces of America’s Children: http://www.fcd-us.org/grantmaking
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Scholarly works with the potential for significant contributions to understanding of ancient
Mesoamerican cultures and continuities among indigenous cultures in modern Mesoamerica
http://research.famsi.org/grants/index.php
Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Scientific sexuality research in areas not likely to receive support from other sources
:: Grants-in-Aid: http://www.sexscience.org/awards/index.php?category_id=432
Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace
Promote peaceful relations among adversary nations through cooperation on programs of mutual benefit and interest.
:: http://www.hanseninstitute.sdsu.edu
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Greenwall Foundation
:: Interdisciplinary Program in Bioethics: http://www.greenwall.org/guidebio.htm
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Honda of America
Novel concepts in science and technology related to personal mobility and transportation.
:: Honda Initiation Grant: http://corporate.honda.com/innovation/honda-initiation-grant.aspx
Human Frontier Science Program
Basic research focused on complex mechanisms of living organisms using tools from biology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering.
:: Young Investigators' Grants: http://www.hfsp.org/about/AboutProg.php?group=About
Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) Young Investigator Grant
The sponsor supports basic research with emphasis placed on novel, innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to basic research which involves scientific exchanges across national boundaries. Awards are for teams of scientists who are all within 5 years of establishing an independent laboratory and within 10 years of obtaining their PhDs.
:: http://www.hfsp.org
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Infectious Diseases Society of America
Support needed research in infectious diseases by promising young researchers who may not otherwise find funding as federal and other institutional research support becomes more difficult to obtain.
:: Young Investigator Awards: http://www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=1970
International Research Fellowship Program
:: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5179
IREX Short-Term Travel Grants (STG) Program
IREX's STG Program seeks to attract, select, and support in-depth field
research by US scholars and experts in policy-relevant subject areas
related to Southeast Europe and Eurasia, as well as to disseminate
knowledge about these regions to a wide network of constituents in the
United States and abroad. The STG Program provides fellows with the means
to conduct in-country research on contemporary political, economic,
historical, and cultural developments relevant to US foreign policy. The
STG Program plays a vital role in supporting the emergence of a dedicated
and knowledgeable cadre of US scholars and experts who can enrich the US
understanding of developments in Southeast Europe and Eurasia.
:: http://www.irex.org/programs/stg/stg_info.asp
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Jurassic Foundation
Dinosaur biology: anatomy, biogeography, ecology, evolution, taxonomy, etc.
:: http://jurassicfoundation.org/grants.html
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Type 1 diabetes and its complications.
:: Career Development Award: http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=103207
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Keats-Shelley Association of America
Research in the field of British Romanticism.
:: Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grants: http://www.rc.umd.edu/ksaa/grants.html
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Lance Armstrong Foundation
Basic and clinical science of testicular cancer.
:: http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.khLXK1PxHmF/b.2661097/k.D25F/Research.htm
Landon Foundation
The Landon Foundation-AACR Innovator Award is being established to
recognize outstanding achievement by junior faculty in cancer prevention
research and to provide support for cancer prevention research of
significant scientific merit in any discipline across the continuum of
research.
:: AACR Innovator Award for Cancer Prevention Research: https://proposalcentral.altum.com
Library of Congress
Humanistic and social science research.
:: Kluge Center Fellowships: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships
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March of Dimes
Basic biological processes governing development, genetics, clinical studies, reproductive health, environmental toxicology, social and behavioral studies.
:: Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award: http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/691.asp
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Marine biology, biomedical and life sciences, environmental science, microscopy.
:: Summer Research Fellowships: http://www.mbl.edu/research/summer/fellowships_list.html
Microsoft Research (*nomination by provost required)
Security, interdisciplinary research, scientific computing, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering, and other areas in which computing transforms the discipline and advances the state of the art.
:: Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Program: http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/nff
Mineralogical Society of America
:: MSA Grant for Research in Crystallography: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Awards/Crystallography_Award.html
Morris Animal Foundation
Companion animal and wildlife research.
:: First Award Grant Program: http://www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/scientists
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National Academy of Education
Improvement of education in all its forms.
:: Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships: http://www.naeducation.org/NAEd_Spencer_Postdoctoral_Fellowship.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
:: Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers New Investigator Program in Earth Science:
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?method=init&solId={8B2E5550-DD00-9EAB-7854-75523E9D45C2}&path=closed
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
Brain and behavior disorders.
:: Young Investigator Award: http://www.narsad.org/research/apply/young/guidelines.html
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (*limited competition)
:: Summer Stipends: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html
National Hemophhilia Foundation
Gene therapy and other experimental strategies to understand and cure the hemophiliac.
:: Career Development Awards: http://www.hemophilia.org/NHFWeb/MainPgs/MainNHF.aspx?menuid=5&contentid=349
National Humanities Center
:: Fellowships: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
:: Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
:: Independent Scientist Award (K02)
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Academic Career Award (K07)
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Career Transition Award (K22)
::
Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K27): http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm
:: NIAMS Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03)
Small grant (R03) to stimulate and facilitate the entry of promising new investigators into research on arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases and injuries.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-383.html
:: Small Grants (R03) Academic Research: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/r03.htm
:: Enhancement Award (AREA) (R15): http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/funding/area.htm
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Neurosciences related to MS.
Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholarships:
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/site/PageServer?pagename=HOM_RES_research_jrfaculty
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Faculty Early Career Development Program (FY 2006-2008 Program Announcement, FAQs, etc.):
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262
National Security Agency (NSA)
:: Mathematical Sciences Program Grants for Research in Mathematics and Cryptology:
http://www.nsa.gov/msp/msp00002.cfm
The New York Public Library
Open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, including academics, independent scholars, journalists, novelists, other creative writers, and scientists and lawyers engaged with the humanities.
:: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/scholars/fellowship.html
NIH Office of Extramural Research
:: Funding Opportunities for Junior Faculty: http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm
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Office of Naval Research
:: Young Investigator Program: http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/3t/corporate
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Phi Beta Kappa Society
Alternate years: Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology OR French language or literature.
:: Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship: http://staging.pbk.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Sibley_Fellowship
PhRMA Foundation
:: Health Outcomes Research Starter Grants
:: Informatics Research Starter Grants:
http://www.phrmafoundation.org
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study-Harvard University
Create an academic community where individuals can oursue advanced work in any of the academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts.
:: http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/index.php
Research and Training on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Servicing Institutions
:: http://www.apa.org/about/division/dialogue/nd07pubint.html
Russell Sage Foundation
:: Small Grants Program in Behavioral Economics: http://www.russellsage.org/programs/other/behavioral/smallgrants
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Science Careers
Career advice and funding links for new faculty.
:: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development
Scleroderma Foundation
New research and new ideas to find the cause and cure of scleroderma.
:: New Investigators Grants: http://www.scleroderma.org/research/new_invest.shtm
Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research
Improve the basic understanding of cancer biology and develop new methods for the prevention and treatment of cancer.
:: Kimmel Scholars Program: http://www.kimmel.org/About41.html
Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation
Chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, related interdisciplinary fields.
:: Sloan Research Fellowships: http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowship_brochure.shtml
Smith Richardson Foundation
Policy issues re: school reform, child and youth development, income support, non-governmental approaches to social policy, public finance, criminal justice and urban policy, regulatory policy, and the political process.
:: Domestic Public Policy Research Fellowship Program
:: International Security and Foreign Policy Program's Junior Faculty Research Grant Program:
http://www.srf.org/grants/JF_Domestic_Description.php
Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
To support research and encourage imaginative teaching in the humanities.
:: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/mellon_post-d_fellowships.html
Society of Nuclear Medicine Education and Research Foundation
Basic and clinical research in nuclear medicine.
:: Pilot Research Grants: http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=2255&RPID=1083
Sontag Foundation
Causes or cure for brain tumors; improved rates of survival and/or improved functional recovery of individuals with brain tumors.
:: Distinguished Scientist Awards: http://www.sontagfoundation.com/grant_opps/grant_opps.htm
Spencer Foundation
The Relation between Education and Social Opportunity; Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions; Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources; and, Purposes and Values of Education.
:: Small Grants: http://www.spencer.org/programs/grants/index.htm
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US Embassy, US - Egypt Joint Science & Technology Fund
:: Junior Scientist Development Visit Grants: http://egypt.usembassy.gov/usegypt/jrgrants.htm
University of California, Berkley
Comprehensive listing of funding opportunities for junior faculty compiled by UC Berkeley, sorted by funding agency.
:: http://www.spo.berkeley.edu/Fund/newfaculty.html