September 25, 2025

Congratulations to those who received awards in August 2025, and especially to Dr Hendry and Dr. Yao, who received Kansas IDEA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) Awards last month.  K-INBRE is celebrating 25 years of networking and collaboration, including with WSU (see the Announcement section.)  Please join us in congratulating K-INBRE, and those WSU researchers funded by K-INBRE, on this incredible achievement! 

So far in FY2026, WSU researchers under Academic Affairs have submitted external proposals in the amount of $11,609,181 and received $5,486,206 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.

PI/Department:  Brooke Allen, Ed-Disability Services Student Sup

Sponsor:  Department of Education - US

Amount:  $306,514

PI/Department:  Teresa Bennett, APEX Accelerator Program

Sponsor:  Office of Naval Research

Amount:  $534,219

PI/Department:  Tonya Bronleewe, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs

Sponsor:  Dept of Health & Environment - Kansas

Amount:  $100,000

PI/Department:  Laila Cure Vellojin, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng

Co-PI/Department: Souvika Sarkar, School of Computing

Sponsor:  Kansas Leadership Center

Amount:  $4,771

PI/Department:  Robert Fraser, Mathematics & Statistics

Sponsor:  Natl Science Foundation

Amount:  $210,000

PI/Department:  Jennifer Friend, Kansas Mentor and Induction Center

Sponsor:  USD 263 Mulvane

Amount:  $800

PI/Department:  Jennifer Friend, Kansas Mentor and Induction Center

Sponsor:  USD 309 Nickerson

Amount:  $1,600

PI/Department:  Shuang Gu, Mechanical Engineering

Co-PI/Department: Janet Twomey, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng

Sponsor:  Natl Science Foundation

Amount:  $335,940

PI/Department:  Shuang Gu, Mechanical Engineering

Co-PI/Department: Eylem Asmatulu, Mechanical Engineering | Mehmet Yildirim, Industrial & Manufacturing Eng

Sponsor:  Iowa State University / Natl Science Foundation

Amount:  $900,000

PI/Department:  William Hendry, Biological Sciences

Sponsor:  Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health

Amount:  $63,000

PI/Department:  Linda Kliment, Aerospace Engineering

Sponsor:  Natl Aeronautics & Space Admn

Amount:  $750,000

PI/Department:  Shruti Kshirsagar, School of Computing

Sponsor:  Univ of Kansas Ctr - Research, Inc. / Kansas Board of Regents

Amount:  $49,969

PI/Department:  Rajprasad Loganathan, Biological Sciences

Sponsor:  Natl Institutes of Health

Amount:  $165,916

PI/Department:  Rajprasad Loganathan, Biological Sciences

Co-PI/Department: Moriah Beck, Chemistry | William Hendry, Biological Sciences | David Long, Biomedical Engineering | Li Yao, Biological Sciences

Sponsor:  Natl Science Foundation

Amount:  $650,432

PI/Department:  Lisa Parcell, The Research Partnership

Sponsor:  IMS Consulting and Expert Services

Amount:  $5,000

PI/Department:  Debra Pile, AVC School of Nursing

Sponsor:  Kansas Board of Regents

Amount:  $200,859

PI/Department:  Sergio Salinas Monroy, School of Computing

Co-PI/Department: Joseph Jabara, School of Computing | Zhiyong Shan, School of Computing

Sponsor:  Natl Science Foundation

Amount:  $602,312

PI/Department:  Jeffrey Severin, HWS of Urban & Public Affairs

Sponsor:  Kansas State University

Amount:  $20,000

PI/Department:  Brandy Willett, Wichita Small Bus. Development Ctr

Sponsor:  Fort Hays State University / Small Business Administration

Amount:  $13,500

PI/Department:  Nicole Windsor, Physical Therapy

Sponsor:  Kansas Health Foundation

Amount:  $4,772

PI/Department:  Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute

Sponsor:  Prairie Land Realtors

Amount:  $8,992

PI/Department:  Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute

Sponsor:  Community Care Network of Kansas, Inc.

Amount:  $25,000

PI/Department:  Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute

Sponsor:  Community Care Network of Kansas, Inc.

Amount:  $17,500

PI/Department:  Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute

Sponsor:  Kansas Health Foundation

Amount:  $4,491

PI/Department:  Scott Wituk, Community Engagement Institute

Sponsor:  Kansas Health Foundation

Amount:  $3,863

PI/Department:  Li Yao, Biological Sciences

Sponsor:  Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health

Amount:  $28,000

PI/Department:  Li Yao, Biological Sciences

Sponsor:  Univ of KS Medical Ctr Research Inst, Inc. / Natl Institutes of Health

Amount:  $42,000

PI/Department:  Marci Young, HOPE Services

Sponsor:  Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services

Amount:  $35,000

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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. 

Title: Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS)

Application Deadlines: Limited: Because WSU may only submit one application to each category, Notices of Intent to apply must be sent to proposals@wichita.edu by October 1, 2025 at 12:00 P.M. (Noon), in case an internal competition is needed.  The anticipated date for informing applicants if they have been chosen to proceed is October 15, 2025. Full Application is due December 4, 2025.

Purpose: “Supports national-scale data infrastructure that powers open, data-intensive and AI-driven research and education by funding the development, expansion and planning of integrated systems and services for the scientific community.” 

Amount: $500,000-$6,000,000

Title: National Trust Preservation Funds

Application Deadline: October 1, 2025

Purpose: “Grants from National Trust Preservation Funds (NTPF) are intended to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting ongoing preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects. These grants help stimulate public discussion, enable local groups to gain the technical expertise needed for preservation projects, introduce the public to preservation concepts and techniques, and encourage financial participation by the private sector.”

Amount: $2,500-$5,000; Note, Cost Share is required.

Title: Request for Applications for Research on Gambling Behaviors and Problems Among College-Aged Individuals, Students and Athletes

Application Deadline: October 13, 2025

Purpose: “The ICRG invites eligible investigators and institutions to apply for funding to conduct research focused on gambling behaviors and problems among college-aged individuals, students and athletes. This research aims to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and impacts of gambling in these groups, with a special emphasis on online sports betting behaviors and their consequences.”

Amount: $450,000

Title: Aging Mammalian Tissues In Vitro (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Application Deadline: October 20, 2025

Purpose: “This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites applications that propose interdisciplinary research that aims to develop complex mammalian 3-dimensional (3D) in vitro microphysiological systems (MPS) to model aging and recapitulate aging processes/phenotypes observed in the whole organism in vivo. This NOFO is primarily focused on human cell-derived MPS (e.g., tissue chip, organ-on-chip, tissue organoids). However, systems developed using cells of nonhuman mammalian origin are acceptable for benchmarking, system validation, or when their relevance to understanding human aging biology is justified. Supported projects will be expected to advance the adoption of MPS in aging biology research and as new human-relevant tools for drug discovery.”

Amount: Application budgets are limited to $275,000 in direct costs over the two-year period

Title: BJA FY25 DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) – Competitive Grants Program

Application Deadline: October 22, 2025

Purpose: “This funding opportunity seeks to support states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories that conduct DNA analysis to solve crimes and protect public safety by maximizing the effective utilization of DNA technology to process DNA samples for entry into the Combined DNA Index System.”

Amount: Up to $1,000,000

Title: Affordable and Agile Composite Additive Manufactured Structures (AACAMS)

Application Deadline: October 28, 2025

Purpose: “The project call, Affordable and Agile Composite Additive Manufactured Structures (AACAMS), aims to establish a well-articulated set of roadmaps and reports that will lay the groundwork for investment by the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry to fully mature the continuous fiber additive manufacturing (CFAM) capability and ensure it reaches scale. This study will build a comprehensive understanding of the current CFAM landscape, the technology gaps limiting adoption, and the attributes of this technology that integrators need to mature before deploying CFAM in their products. One award is anticipated.”

Amount: $450,000

Title: Core Program: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context

Application Deadlines: Letter of Inquiry due October 29, 2025; If invited, Full Proposal due February 18, 2026

Purpose: “The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) core program on Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context merges its long-standing program on Behavioral Economics and its special initiative on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context. This program encourages perspectives from multiple disciplines, including economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences, to further our understanding of economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices in public and private contexts such as policing/criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial/ethnic relations, and immigration.”

Amount: Up to $200,000

Title: Opportunities for Research and Development

Application Deadline: October 31, 2025

Purpose: HALO promotes opportunities for research and development presented by industry.  Opportunities vary greatly.  Recent requests from industry partners due October 31, 2025 include, for example, “Free in vivo testing: Unleash your molecule’s potential as a crop protector;” “Accelerating food formulation with predictive AI;” and “Digital twins and AI for process optimization.”

Amount: Varies based on opportunity

Title: Request for Proposals/Bid: Strategic Plan on Homeless Solutions

Application Deadline: October 31, 2025

Purpose: “The City is seeking an individual or firm to develop a strategic and actionable plan to address homelessness in Salina, Kansas.” 

Amount: n/a - bid

Title: Grants and Endowments

Application Deadline: November 1, 2025

Purpose: “Part of our multifaceted relationship with healthcare professionals has always been providing funding through grants and endowments. MS Focus: The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation happily funds exceptional grant or endowment requests that can help those affected by MS find better days.” 

Amount: Up to $40,000

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

Title: Chronic Diseases Research Grants

Application Deadline: November 3, 2025

Purpose: “The Healthy Americas research grants aim to support up to 20 scholars conducting research about chronic diseases in communities for which there are limited scientific research efforts. Research should examine the role of contributory causes, including biological, behavioral, social, and/or environmental factors; health care access; and/or the intersection of mental health and chronic disease.” 

Amount: $10,000

Title: Resident Scholars

Application Deadline: November 3, 2025

Purpose: “Today, Resident Scholars approach research from the perspective of archaeology, anthropology or from related fields such as history or sociology.” 

Amount: Fellowships

Title: 2026 Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize

Application Deadline: Letter of Intent due November 3, 2025

Purpose: “The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Prize provides early-career scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking. While the Prize initially focused on the greater New York City area, as of 2026, applicants and winners will now represent institutions from across the United States.” 

Amount: $750,000

Title: Artistic Production Grant Spring 2026 Cycle

Application Deadlines: Letter of Inquiry due November 6, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due January 22, 2026

Purpose: “Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions, in amounts ranging between $25,000 – $100,000. Often exhibited beyond museum walls in public space, these projects feature high levels of thought leadership, artistic production, and public engagement.” 

Amount: $25,000-$100,000

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

Title: Competitive Grants Program: Foundational and Applied Science Program

Application Deadlines: November 6 – November 13, 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 November include: “Welfare of Agricultural Animals;” “Animal Breeding, Genetics and Genomics;” and “Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems.”

Amount: $50,000-$800,000; varies based on topic and type of project.

Title: Advancing Research on the Application of Digital Health Technology to the Management of Type 2 Diabetes (R01- Clinical Trail Required)

Application Deadline: November 7, 2025

Purpose: “This notice of funding opportunity invites applications designed to examine the efficacy of digital health technology approaches to the management of diabetes.” 

Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

Title: Request for Applications

Application Deadline: November 13, 2025

Purpose: Two topics currently open include “Advancing Technology for Spatiotemporal Omics in Live Tissue” and “Implementation of Synthetic Biology Principals in Immunology.” 

Amount: Up to $600,000

Title: Museum Grants for American Latino History and Culture (ALHC)

Application Deadline: November 14, 2025* tentative due date

Purpose: “The ALHC grant program supports projects that build the capacity of American Latino history and culture museums to serve their communities as well as projects that broadly advance the growth and development of a professional workforce in American Latino institutions.” 

Amount: $5,000-$500,000

Title: Museums for America Program

Application Deadline: November 14, 2025* tentative due date

Purpose: “The Museums for America program supports museums of all sizes and disciplines in strategic, project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation.” 

Amount: $5,000-$250,000

Title: Cornerstone: Learning for Living

Application Deadlines: Concept Papers due December 1, 2025; If invited, Full Applications due February 2026

Purpose: “The Cornerstone: Learning for Living initiative aims to reinvigorate the role of the humanities in general education, and in doing so, expose a broad array of students to the power of the humanities; help students of all backgrounds build a sense of belonging and community; strengthen the coherence and cohesiveness of general education; and increase teaching opportunities for humanities faculty.” 

Amount: $300,000

Title: Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG)

Application Deadline: December 1, 2025

Purpose: “The Clinician Scientist Development Grant (CSDG) supports full-time faculty members in becoming independent investigators as clinician scientists. This grant is designed for people trained primarily as clinicians who want to maintain clinical practice and conduct cancer research.” 

Amount: $135,000/year in direct costs

Title: Proposals for Program Evaluations (Research Project and Existing Program Evaluation)

Application Deadlines: December 1, 2025 for Stage 1 Proposals; If invited, Stage 2 Proposals due four months later.   

Purpose: “…projects that are consistent with a strength-based perspective and have the potential to inform future educational research, practice, major philanthropic giving, and/or public policy.” 

Amount: Varies; see website for examples of previously funded projects.

Title: Research Grants

Application Deadline: Pre-Proposals due December 1, 2025   

Purpose: “Our grants program has provided millions of dollars in funding to cutting edge research institutions to help address the many challenges that exist in sustainable materials management.” 

Amount: $15,000-$500,000 (with most awards averaging $160,000 for two years)

Title: Conference and Workshop Grant

Application Deadline: December 1, 2025   

Purpose: “This grant program supports meetings and events that promote the development of inclusive communities of anthropologists and advance significant and innovative research.” 

Amount: $20,000

Title: NOURISH (Nutrition for OUR Immune System Health): Autoimmunity Challenge

Application Deadline: December 4, 2025

Purpose: “The NOURISH Autoimmunity Challenge is a crowdsourcing competition focused on generating a cadre of innovative ideas on how to best integrate diet and nutrition studies into autoimmune disease research with a focus on identifying dietary interventions that are feasible, testable, scalable, and will have broad impact across the broad autoimmune disease portfolio.” 

Amount: Up to $150,000 in total prizes

Title: Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative

Application Deadline: December 4, 2025

Purpose: “Building upon the original goals of the BWF Preterm Birth Initiative, a recently convened Pregnancy Think Tank has helped shape the next generation of BWF preterm birth awards. Growing evidence suggests the interrelatedness of the duration of pregnancy, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, stillbirth, and maternal medical complications including maternal mortality.” 

Amount: $500,000

Title: Grants for Innovative Cancer Research

Application Deadline: December 15, 2025   

Purpose: “The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research to investigators in United States non-profit institutions proposing research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer. The Foundation funds projects for a one-year period which will allow the establishment of capabilities of new cancer researchers or new cancer approaches by established cancer researchers.” 

Amount: By design, there are no limits set on the amount that can be requested.

Title: Research Grants on Education: Small

Application Deadline: December 15, 2025

Purpose: “The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.  This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.”

Amount: Up to $50,000

Title: Advertising for the Environment

Application Deadline: December 15, 2025

Purpose: “Grants are awarded for projects that will lead to measurable outcomes for wildland ecosystem conservation and restoration in the United States. Grants may be used to fund the production of print, radio, or television ads, to pay for advertising space or airtime, or to produce or distribute pamphlets, books, videos, or press packets.”

Amount: $5,000-$15,000

Title: Transformation of Mental Health Care Program

Application Deadline: December 15, 2025

Purpose: “We are soliciting applications for academic investigators conducting research to demonstrate the benefits of novel ways to access or deliver mental health care or prevention approaches that can be implemented at scale.”

Amount: $200,000

Title: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards

Application Deadline: January 7, 2026

Purpose: “Our commitment to enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions is embodied in the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards Program. These competitive research awards provide seed money for junior faculty members that often result in additional funding from other sources.” 

Amount: $5,000; Note, Cost Share is Required

Title: Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement Challenge

Application Deadline: January 8, 2026

Purpose: “…invites proposals from U.S.-based accredited, tax-exempt colleges and universities—including their departments, centers, and institutes—to reimagine their academic hiring, review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes. This initiative seeks bold, creative strategies to develop academic reward systems that foster a collaborative, responsive, and transparent research environment.” 

Amount: $250,000 for Tier 1; $50,000 for Tier 2

Title: Attraction Development Grants

Application Deadline: January 9, 2026

Purpose: “The Attraction Development Grant Program supports the creation of new or enhancing sustainable, market-driven travel experiences in Kansas. Its goal is to attract new visitors, influence travel decisions, and generate economic benefits through new jobs, capital investment, increased revenue, and higher visitation.” 

Amount: Total funding available is $1,000,000, no minimum or maximum request, however, Cost Share is Required

Title: Scientific Software Research Faculty Award

Application Deadlines: Letter of Intent due January 21, 2026; If invited, Full Application due no later than three months prior to award start date (by September 1, 2027)

Purpose: “The Simons Foundation invites applications for funding to support new research professor positions (e.g., “clinical professor,” “professor of practice” or “research professor,” the titles and roles depending on the university) in existing academic departments (the “host institutions”) to be filled by scientific software-focused researchers. The SSRF Award will support researchers who have a strong track record of leadership in scientific software development. The aim of this program is to stimulate the development and maintenance of core scientific software infrastructure in academic environments through creating a new, long-term, faculty-level career path.” 

Amount: A Scientific Software Fellowship provides five years of salary support for the awardee’s academic-year salary and fringe benefits, whether normally paid over 9 or 12 months, as follows: 100 percent salary for each of the first two years and then 50 percent each year for next three years. For the last three years, the host university is expected to provide the other 50 percent of salary support each year through existing department channels. Note: summer salary is not an allowable cost.

Title: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Application Deadline: January 27, 2026

Purpose: “The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator and for which no preliminary data exist. Applications submitted to this notice of funding opportunity must not include preliminary data. Applications must include a separate attachment describing the change in research direction. The proposed project must be related to the programmatic interests of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers  based on their scientific missions..” 

Amount: Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.

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

Title: Sigma/Midwest Nursing Research Society Research (MNRS) Grant

Application Deadline: April 1, 2026

Purpose: “The purpose of the Sigma/Midwest Nursing Research Society research grant is to encourage qualified nurses to contribute to the advancement of nursing through research; proposals for pilot and/or developmental research may be submitted. All research topics and designs are eligible for support. Multidisciplinary, historical, and international research is encouraged.” 

Amount: $3,500

Title: Varies: Academic Applied and Advanced Innovation, Advanced Energy Materials Program, Advanced Learning-Enabled Intelligent Cyber Physical Systems, Polymer Chemistry, Fluid Dynamics

Application Deadline: Ongoing until November 20, 2027

Purpose: “The Broad Agency Announcement is a competitive solicitation procedure used to obtain proposals for basic and applied research and the part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.”

Amount: TBD; White Papers

Title: Varies: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Applied Research

Application Deadline: Ongoing until January 4, 2028

Purpose: “DAC’s research objective is to gain knowledge on phenomenon or technology to account for its effects within the analysis and assessment process. The knowledge and understanding gained through research will be used to model and analyze the performance, systems effectiveness, and human-systems integration of new phenomena or technologies.”  Topics vary; for example: “Methodologies and Techniques to Analyze Assistive Automation & Artificial Intelligence Enabled Systems,” “Scientific Understanding and Analytical Methodology for Multi-Domain Operations,” “Using Machine Learning and Open Source Big Data Platforms to Enable Prognostics and Predictive Maintenance,” and “Personnel Survivability.”

Amount: TBD; White Papers

Title: Military Heroes Program – Community Grants

Application Deadline: Ongoing; Letters of Inquiry accepted anytime

Purpose: “Funding priorities include Military to Civilian Transition; Community Leadership and Legacy.”  

Amount: Unspecified

Title: Varies: TechWerx/DOE Opportunities

Application Deadlines: Upcoming/TBD

Purpose: TechWerx is a hub focused on connecting the Department of Energy with collaborators to foster innovation.  Upcoming funding opportunities currently listed include “Energy & Minerals Partnership for Academic-Industry Career Training,” “Solar Training and Education for Professionals: Enabling Informed Consumer Choice,” “Building Access to Tribal Energy Resilience” and “Apprenticeship Utilization Technical Assistance Program.”

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

• 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

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)

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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 Workshops

“Career Development Grants champion gender equity in education and workplaces by investing up to $8,000 in women pursuing a certificate, credential, or training program needed to enter, transition into, or advance within high-demand STEM fields in which they are underrepresented. This grant cannot be used for a degree program (ex. Master’s Degree). Grants fund short-term, accredited programs. AAUW also welcomes applications from women currently employed in high-demand STEM fields who seek executive-level or leadership development training to advance into decision-making roles.”

Learn More about AAUW and Upcoming Information Sessions

“This webinar will introduce you to the fundamental mechanics of using our trademark search system. It’s geared toward new users and those interested in conducting basic searches.”

Register for USPTO Webinar

“The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Data Sharing (ODS) is pleased to announce its inaugural data jamboree to promote the sharing, access and reuse of pediatric and adolescents and young adults cancer datasets in conjunction with the ODS 3rd Annual Symposium.”

NIH Inaugural Data Jamboree

“The U.S. Department of Energy’s Critical Materials Collaborative will convene stakeholders from across the critical minerals and materials industry and research ecosystem for a webinar spotlighting national lab critical minerals and materials initiatives that are advancing and derisking technologies.”

Register for DOE CMC Webinar

“Join us for the next installment of the “Innovation Unleashed” series—an interactive, one-hour webinar designed for innovators across government, industry, and academia.  Whether you’re advancing defense tech, developing commercial solutions, or leading cutting-edge research, this session will show you how to accelerate your work through the AFWERX and SpaceWERX Challenge program.”

Register for AFWERX Challenge Webinar

“A foundational shift to a culture of broad data sharing and collaborative science holds immense promise for more rapid advances in cancer research. We invite scientists, clinicians, policymakers, patients, advocates and trainees across government, academia and industry to learn from one another and explore ways to maximize the benefits of these efforts. Please join us for engaging discussions on advancing cancer research through data sharing and reuse.”

NIH NCI ODS 3rd Annual Data Sharing Symposium

“Participants will learn practical strategies for developing courses anchored in common readings and cross-disciplinary clusters that connect the humanities to technical and pre-professional fields. Panelists will also discuss lessons learned around implementation challenges, faculty engagement, and assessing student outcomes.”

Register for AAC&U Webinar

“There is an urgent need for standardized metadata for AI/ML datasets as their scale and complexity grows. In this talk, we introduce Croissant, an open metadata vocabulary designed to make AI/ML datasets more discoverable, understandable, and reusable. Croissant provides a flexible framework that describes crucial information about data provenance, structure, licensing, and intended use. We will walk through Croissant's design and attributes and highlight how it can improve AI/ML dataset documentation, compliance, and reproducibility for real-world applications.”

Read More about NSF ACCESS and NAIRR Pilot Partners Webinars

“Unfamiliar with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets? Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from USPTO experts about intellectual property basics and potential ways to protect your innovation as you transition from idea to product.”

Register for USPTO Webinar on October 2, 2025 or November 6, 2025

“The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health & the Uniformed Services University Military Women's Health Research Program present a webinar series showcasing research in military women's health.”

Register for NIH Webinar

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.

“The Research and Innovation Translation Partnerships in Point of Care Technologies and Digital Health Conference and Technology Showcase will be held October 15-16, 2025, on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, MD. This event will feature keynote talks, panel discussions, forums, and e-poster sessions. Participants include technology developers, researchers, clinicians, and representatives from industry, funding and regulatory agencies, non-government organizations, and investors. These stakeholders will have the opportunity to discuss and share resources, opportunities and expectations to address technology innovation translation and commercialization challenges.”

POCTRN Digital Health Conference and Technology Showcase

“In this webinar series, NSF program officers will introduce the NSF PCL Test Bed program and explain the goals, eligibility and procedures for proposal submission. The session will feature a moderated Q&A. Participants can then join breakout sessions to connect and explore teaming opportunities.”

NSF PCL Test Bed Webinar

“Join us for an evening dedicated to undergraduate research, featuring networking, interactive sessions, and a keynote address.”  The event is free to WSU Faculty and undergraduate students. 

RSVP for Research Mixer Here

“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

“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

“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) convened stakeholders from industry, national labs, and academia for a Domestic Critical Minerals and Materials Supply Chains Workshop. This discussion underscored the role of critical minerals and materials to achieving energy dominance and elucidated DOE’s strategies and programming to secure critical minerals and materials supply chains for America’s energy, national, and economic security. The workshop featured speakers from DOE leadership as well as several DOE offices funding critical minerals and materials programs and highlighted exemplary projects that are advancing domestic industry. The meeting concluded with an opportunity to provide input on a series of questions to help DOE understand the needs, challenges, and opportunities facing the critical minerals and materials sector.”

Watch DOE Critical Minerals and Materials Workshop Recording

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

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.

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“Twenty-five years ago, University of Kansas Medical Center was chosen as the lead institution in Kansas for a statewide effort to support networks focusing on biomedical research...”

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“The purpose of this RFI is to obtain feedback on an effort that will establish a cadre of trusted partners made up of external academic entities, both Institutes of Higher Education and their associated entities, capable of rapidly spinning up activity on basic scientific research across the breadth of disciplinary perspectives at ARL.”  The eleven technical fields identified include “Biological & Biotechnology Sciences (non-medical); Electromagnetic Spectrum Sciences; Energy Sciences; Humans in Complex Systems (non-medical); Mechanical Sciences; Military Information Sciences; Network, Cyber & Computational Sciences; Photonics, Electronics & Quantum Sciences; Sciences of Extreme Materials; Terminal Effects; and Weapon Sciences.” 

ARL Request for Information

“The U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Education (the departments) released a strategy for workforce development with six overarching themes: industry-driven strategies, worker mobility, integrated systems, accountability, flexibility, and innovation. The plan was written in response to an April 2025 directive from the White House mandating an overhaul of the federal approach to supporting workforce training.”

Read More about Workforce Development Plan

“This Guide Notice informs the extramural community that NIH plans to launch preview versions of the NIH Common Forms within Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv). Users should be able to access these preview versions of the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support Common Forms and the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement (along with the corresponding instructions) on or before September 15, 2025.” Reminder, please reach out to proposals@wichita.edu if you need assistance with setting up your SciENcv and/or ORCID account.

Read NIH Notice NOT-OD-25-152

Why be an AHA Peer Reviewer?  Being a reviewer provides a substantial addition to curricula vitae to be noticed through the science community, it serves as a key point for tenure track and other promotions within most institutions, reviewers are exposed to relevant scientific breakthroughs happening daily in their specialties, and more.

Read More about AHA Peer Reviewers

“If you would like to serve as a reviewer and panelist for proposals submitted to track 2 of the U.S. National Science Foundation Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (NSF VINES) program, please complete the reviewer interest survey. Responses are due no later than Oct. 8, 2025.  The NSF VINES program supports research and innovation to enhance wireless communications and intelligent network systems for faster, more reliable user-to-cloud connections, while promoting U.S. leadership in telecommunications and emerging potential NextG vertical industries.”

NSF VINES Track 2 Panelist Interest Form

“Learn more about children’s health, including obesity rates, suicide prevention, and how schools can support well-being.”

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“State and local governments around the U.S. are harnessing AI for a range of applications — such as translating public meetings into multiple languages in real time to allow broader participation, or using chatbots to deliver services to the public, for instance...”

Read More or Watch NAS Webinar about this Topic

“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.”

Read NIH Notice NOT-0D-25-132

“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

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

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.

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.

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