A running list of limited submission opportunities and other funding announcements distributed by Boston University’s Office of Research.
Funding Opportunity: DOD Releases FOA for FY 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) released the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) funding opportunity announcement (FOA). ONR, facilitator of the program on behalf of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)), is seeking single investigators to conduct basic, unclassified research in Department of Defense (DOD) areas of interest. […]
Funding Opportunity: NOAA Releases FY 2024 Climate Program Office Competitions
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office (CPO) has released its fiscal year (FY) 2024 solicitation for approximately 90 new awards with a total of $9 million in available funds, which is less than the $11.1 million competed last year. The FY 2024 solicitation is operated through the Earth System Science and […]
Call for Proposals: 2023 Sony Research Award Program
We are inviting all faculty to participate in the 2023 Sony Research Award Program. The program is intended to foster partnerships between Sony Corporation and BU faculty and researchers. Sony is accepting proposals for awards up to $100,000 for their Faculty Innovation Award and proposals for awards up to $150,000 for their Focused Research Award in the following areas: […]
Limited Submission Funding Opportunity: Schmidt Science Polymaths 2023
OBJECTIVES: The key goal of the Schmidt Science Polymath program (“the program”) is to encourage the best “polymath” scientists to expand their research portfolio by exploring new lines of research that are substantively different from their ongoing and proven research activities. The program will offer long-term research support to recently-tenured professors (within the past 3 years) with […]
DARPA Announces Disruptioneering Opportunities
The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released a program announcement for the Disruptioneering program. DSO, commonly referred to as “DARPA’s DARPA” given it’s high-risk, high-reward focus, is seeking performers who can “rapidly investigate new and nascent technologies.” Under this program announcement, DARPA will issue Distribution Opportunities (DO) through pre-soliticitation […]
Trans-Atlantic Platform Call on Democracy, Governance and Trust
The Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP) has released a new call for proposals. The T-AP call on Democracy, Governance and Trust (DGT) seeks to understand how democracy, governance and trust are integral to tackling both short-term crises and long-term challenges and are themselves a focus of the discontent and disruption facing many societies. The […]
Funding Opportunity: Department of State Global Engagement Center Identify and Expose Kremlin Disinformation Networks Opportunity
The U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which coordinates the U.S. interagency response to foreign adversaries’ attempts to use disinformation and propaganda to undermine U.S. interests, has released a new, $1 million notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) to Identify and Expose Kremlin Disinformation Networks (attached). In response to the NOFO, GEC will fund a […]
Funding Opportunity: Sustainable Investing Practices
BU’s Impact Measurement & Allocation Program (IMAP) supports research that enables financial investors to better understand the environmental and social impacts of their corporate investments. With better data, IMAP believes the investment industry can direct their financial leverage towards a more just and sustainable society. IMAP seeks academically rigorous proposals from principal investigators interested in […]
Funding Opportunity: IES Invites Applications for Longitudinal Data and Transformative Research Competitions
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the Department of Education (ED) issued a notice inviting applications (NIA) for two new National Center for Education Research (NCER) competitions. One competition on the use of “longitudinal data to support State education policymaking” and another competition on “transformative research in the education sciences.” These programs are meant […]
Funding Opportunity: School of Hospitality Administration Request for Interdisciplinary Project Proposals
The School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) at Boston University produces cutting-edge research to define the future of a rapidly-evolving hospitality industry, in line with the School’s mission to enhance human interactions in the broader service economy. SHA faculty have research expertise across a variety of functional domains—including but not limited to analytics, machine learning applications, pricing […]