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Funding Opportunity: Affinity Research Collaboratives

January 30, 2020

Applications for new Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) funding or ARC renewal will be due on Monday April 13, 2020 at 10 am.An ARC application form can be found in here.Faculty are encouraged to discuss new applications with Dr. Katya Ravid, Founding Director of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (ECIBR) and the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office (IBRO).An […]

Funding Opportunity: AFOSR Releases FY 2024 Young Investigator Program (YIP)

May 11, 2023

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) released its fiscal year (FY) 2024 funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for the Young Investigator Program (YIP). This program provides early career university faculty, scientists, and engineers who have shown promise for conducting basic research the opportunity to work with the Air Force and Space Force to further […]

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Funding Opportunity: AI for Information Security

April 23, 2024

Amazon is seeking to fund machine learning research on the following topics in information security:Threat, intrusion, and anomaly detection for cloud securityGenerative AI and foundation models for information securityGraph modeling and anomaly detection on graphsLearning with limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learningML for malware analysis and detectionFinding security vulnerabilities using MLCausal inference for information securityZero/one-shot […]

Funding Opportunity: Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Program to Accelerate Clinical Trials (PACT)

January 27, 2021

LOI DEADLINES: February 5, May 28, and October 1, 2021. This funding opportunity prioritizes diverse drug mechanisms and modes of action related to the biology of aging and other emerging therapeutic areas for dementia.

Funding Opportunity: Amazon Science Research Awards Program Spring 2025

April 7, 2025

Up to $100k to support research applied machine learning, AI, fairness in AI, and more. Apply directly to Amazon by Wednesday, April 30.

Funding Opportunity: American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Development Grants

October 23, 2024

Up to $100,000 over 12-18 months to support projects that 1) diversify the digital domain, 2) advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or 3) contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. Apply by December 3, 2024.

Funding Opportunity: American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grants

October 23, 2024

Up to $25,000 to support projects that engage with the histories of marginalized communities through digital methods. Apply by December 3, 2024.

Funding Opportunity: Brain Health Medicines Scholar Award

April 30, 2024

$100,000 grants for researchers whose work aims to treat, prevent or cure Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; Apply directly with the funder.

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Funding Opportunity: BU Campus Climate Lab: Sustainability Research Funding for Student-Mentor Teams

August 26, 2025

Apply by Friday, September 19Help advance sustainability and climate solutions using the BU campuses as your living lab! Teams made up of students and their faculty, staff, or graduate student mentors are invited to submit research proposals for the fall 2025 round of Campus Climate Lab (CCL) funding by September 19 at 3pm.Funding is awarded up to […]

Funding Opportunity: Campus Climate Lab

July 31, 2023

The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), in collaboration with BU Sustainability and the Office of Research, invites research proposals from student and mentor (faculty or graduate student) teams to generate new knowledge on the impacts, adaptation, and/or mitigation of climate change that can be implemented at BU and beyond.