The McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Grants Office maintains this list of current external funding opportunities for faculty across disciplines. We update the listings monthly to help you discover potential matches for your research, scholarship, and creative activity.
If you're interested in applying for any of the opportunities below, please contact our office for support with the application process.
All external grant applications must go through the university SAM Office (via USCeRA) for unit/college and institutional approvals. Please coordinate USCeRA submission with the CAS Grants Team.
“Please note: Some opportunities may have limited submission policies. Be sure to check details carefully or reach out for clarification.”
| Due Date | Program Announcement | Sponsor | Description | Max Amount | Limited Submission | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/01/2026 | NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | NSF | Supports institutions in EPSCoR jurisdictions by providing funding for graduate fellowships for new or continuing students who received the distinction of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention within the last three years. | $795,000 | Yes | View More |
| 06/02/2026 | OUCH-Int’l and LCRF Research Grant Program on the Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Carcinogenesis and Lung Cancer Prevalence | Lung Cancer Research Foundation | Increasing evidence indicates that air pollution is a major cause of lung cancer, and the number of estimated lung cancer deaths attributable to air pollution has increased by nearly 30% since 2007, as smoking has decreased and air pollution has increased. OUCH-Int’l and LCRF Research Grant Program on the Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Carcinogenesis and Lung Cancer Prevalence is a two-year award supporting investigators at any level in their career. This award’s objective is to fund innovative projects to support research that examines the impact of climate change and environmental pollution on lung cancer risk, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes and identifies strategies to mitigate these effects. | $200,000 | No | View more |
| 06/22/2026 | Grantmaking Priorities | Dana Foundation | The Foundation funds research on neuroscience and society--how neuroscience informs and reflects society, and practical work to put those ideas into action. Projects may be informed by such fields as ethics, law, humanities, medicine, arts, social sciences, policy, education, journalism, and public engagement, and should address comlex societal problems. | $150,000 | No | View More |
| 06/25/2026 | Visiting Scholars | Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political and behavioral sciences to pursue their data analysis and writing while in residence at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City. | $150,000 | No | View More |
| 06/30/2026 | Scholars Program | William T. Grant Foundation | The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. | $425,000 | Yes | View More |
| 07/01/2026 | Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards (Arch-SR) | NSF | Supports archaeological laboratory and field research with the goal of understanding the processes that have shaped past behavior in humans and their fossil relatives. | n/a | No | View More |
| 07/01/2026 | Cottrell Scholar Award | Research Corporation for Science Advancement | The Cottrell Scholar Award honors and helps develop exceptional teacher-scholars recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research and academic leadership. | $120,000 | No | View More |
| 07/09/2026 | Grants for Arts Projects | NEA | Activities funded through Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. We also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities. | $100,000 | No | View More |
| 07/15/2026 | Core Research Grants | Russell Sage Foundation | RSF will only accept letters of inquiry (LOIs) under its core programs for Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context (BSDMC) and Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration (REI) and its special initiative on Immigration and Immigrant Integration (III). | $200,000 | No | View More |
| 07/15/2026 | Online Funding Inquiry | John Templeton Foundation | The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in the major Funding Areas of Life Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Religion, Science and Society, Public Engagement, Individual Freedom and Free Markets | N/A | No | View More |
| 07/16/2026 | Research Fellowships | American Society for Theatre Research | The purpose of the ASTR Research Fellowships is to underwrite some of the research expenses of scholars undertaking projects significant to the field of theatre and/or performance studies. The fellowships can be used in conjunction with funding from other non-ASTR sources. | $3,000 | No | View More |
| 07/29/2026 | Resarch Grants on Reducing Inequality | William T. Grant Foundation | This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. | $600,000 | No | View More |
| 07/29/2026 | Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence | William T. Grant Foundation | This program supports research on strategies focused on improving the use, usefulness, and impact of evidence in ways that benefit young people ages 5-25 in the United States. | $1,000,000 | No | View More |
| 08/04/2026 | Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program NSF 23-519 | NSF | The NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training. MRI provides support to acquire critical research instrumentation without which advances in fundamental science and engineering research may not otherwise occur. MRI also provides support to obtain next-generation research instruments by developing instruments with new capabilities that open new opportunities to advance the frontiers in science and engineering research. Additionally, an MRI award is expected to enhance research training of students who will become the next generation of instrument users, designers and builders. | n/a | Yes | View more |
| 08/07/2026 | Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | NSF | The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of the field’s contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable research that advances geographical and geospatial sciences. | n/a | No | View more |
| 08/17/2026 | Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) | NSF | The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, remote sensing, the collection of bio-markers, experimental research inside or outside of laboratory settings, archival research, the analysis of materials collections and extant data bases, mathematical and computational modeling and other research tools as appropriate for the proposed research. The overarching research goals should be to produce empirically grounded findings that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. | n/a | No | View more |
| 09/01/2026 | History of Art Grants | Kress Foundation | The History of Art Grants program supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century. Grants are awarded to projects, including those incorporating the use of digital methodologies and tools, that create and disseminate specialized knowledge, such as archival projects, development and dissemination of scholarly databases, documentation projects, museum exhibitions and publications, photographic campaigns, scholarly catalogues and publications, and technical and scientific studies. | Varies | No | View More |
| 09/01/2026 | Furthermore | J.M. Kaplan Fund | Furthermore grants assist nonfiction books having to do with art, architecture, and design; cultural history, the city, and related public issues; and conservation and preservation. We look for work that appeals to an informed general audience, gives evidence of high standards in writing, design, and production, and promises a reasonable shelf life. | $12,000 | No | View More |
| 09/15/2026 | Production and Presentation Grants | Graham Foundation | These grants assist individuals with the production-related expenses that are necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation. These projects include, but are not limited to, exhibitions, installations; film/video/new media web initiatives; public programs; and publications. | $15,000 | No | View More |
| 09/15/2026 | Fulbright Global Scholar Award | Fulbright Scholar Program | The Fulbright Global Scholar Award allows U.S. academics and professionals to engage in multi-country, multi-regional projects. As a truly worldwide award, U.S. scholars will be able to propose research or combined teaching/research activity in two to three countries within two different world regions with flexible schedule options; trips can be conducted within one academic year or spread over two consecutive years. | Varies | No | View More |
| 10/21/2026 | Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants | Russell Sage Foundation | The Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants Competition seeks to support early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Adjunct Assistant Professors) and promote diversity by prioritizing applications from scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences and/or employed at under-resourced colleges and universities. | $65,000 | No | View More |
| 12/09/2026 | Public Humanitiees Projects | NEH | The Public Humanities Projects program supports projects that bring the ideas of the humanities to life for general audiences through public programming. Projects must engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. | $750,000 | N/A | View More |
| n/a | Various (see website) | NIH | NIH grant opportunities are numerous and regularly changing across a wide array of component agencies. | n/a | N/A | View more |