June 24, 2025
Federal Transition: Monitor these frequently updated websites for the latest vetted information, resources and actions relevant to our campus:
- CU System: Office of Government Relations Federal Transition site
- CU Boulder: Federal Transition site
- Research & innovation: Research & Federal Funding site
- Guidance for the research community: “What to do”
- Specific funded project questions: Office of Contracts and Grants
- All questions, resources and information: Buff Info
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Funding
Limited Submissions
- NEW Due 6/26: NEA Celebrating America250: Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes
- NEW Due 7/21: Schmidt Science Polymaths
- NEW Due 7/28: National Semiconductor Technology Center Workforce Awards Program (Natcast)
- NEW Due 7/28: NEH Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition
- Due 8/4: Searle Scholars Program
- Due 8/18: Mathers Foundation Grant Program (Biomedical)
- Due 8/18: NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
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Featured Opportunities
- Due 7/10 (Abstracts): DARPA Rads to Watts
- Due 7/14: Sundance Documentary Fund Grants
- Due 7/23: NSF CAREER
- Note: If interested, email RIO's Diane Carillo.
- Due 7/25 (White Papers): Air Force Young Investigator Program
- Due 7/30: NSF Developmental Sciences
- Due 8/1: ONR Young Investigator Program
- Due 8/1 (LOI): Beckman Young Investigator (Biosciences)
- Due 8/5: NSF Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure
- Due 8/6: William T. Grant: Reducing Inequality; Improving the Use of Research Evidence
- Note: If interested, email IFR's Kelly Dell.
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Events
- 6/25: NCFDD Framing and Maintaining Your Research Agenda
- 6/25: Venture Partners Ascent Deep Tech Community Showcase
- 7/11, 7/16, 8/6: Funding Strategies in a New Federal Landscape: Tools & Tips
- 7/21, 7/23: Fall Fellowships Peer Writing/Editing Program: 30-min Virtual Launch
- 7/10: NCFDD The Art of Saying No
- 7/24–25 (Register by 6/30): DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Spark Tank (Aurora)
- 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 (Register by 7/25): Venture Partners Starting Blocks Customer Discovery Workshop
- 9/26: a2ru Creating Knowledge in Common, Together: A Round Table
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Awards & Fellowships
- Due 7/1: Cottrell Scholar Award
- Due 7/15: Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists (Biology, Ecology/Environment; Medicine)
- Due 9/10: MacDowell Fellowship/Residency
- Due 9/11: Radcliffe Fellowships (Humanities, Social Sciences, Creative Arts)
- Due 9/19: Charles Bronfman Jewish Prize
- Due 9/22: Society for the Humanities Fellowships (Survival)
- Due 9/30: Radcliffe Fellowships (Science, Engineering, Mathematics)
- Due 9/30: JFK Library Foundation Research Fellowships
- Due 10/1: Simons Fellows in Mathematics
- Note: If interested, email IFR's Andrew Chiacchierini.
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News You Need
- NSF ASCEND Engine RFI: Wildfire and Soil Health Technologies
- Note: If interested, email RIO's Mike Mitchell.
- RIO seeks research advisors (faculty director appointments) for Sustainability Research Initiative (apply by 7/15)
- NSF RFI: Key Technology Focus Areas for Directorate for Technology, Innovation, Partnerships (apply by 7/21)
- Elevating Colorado Voices: RIO Public Scholarship Workshop (apply by 8/1)
- NIH Notice of Special Interest: Quantum Sensing Technologies in Biomedical Applications
Our 12 research institutes conduct more than half of
the sponsored research at CU Boulder.
More than 75 research centers span the campus,
covering a broad range of topics.