Highlights From This Newsletter:

• New Budget Skill
• Upcoming Research Events
• Internal Funding Opportunities

New Budget Skill

The Office of Research has developed a Claude budget skill that builds a populated budget template from a plain-language description of your project. You describe the sponsor, the period of performance, who is working on the project and what the project needs. Claude asks follow-up questions and returns a completed OSP template as an Excel file. Download instructions and a full guide are available on our website.

Upcoming Research Events

Decoding the National Institutes of Health (NIH): An Introduction to the Agency and Funding Mechanisms
Friday, Nov. 6 | noon-1 p.m. | 548C Bird Library (Faculty Commons)

Join the Office of Research for an overview of the NIH grant application process. Whether you are preparing your first grant or seeking to strengthen your current proposal strategy, this workshop will cover key fundamentals and resources. Register for the event.

Applying for Early Career Funding at NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Thursday, Nov. 19 | 2-4 p.m. | 548C Bird Library (Faculty Commons)

Carlos Castañeda, associate professor of biology and chemistry, will present this workshop on applying to the NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35) grant program. This workshop will provide valuable insights into the application and review process, as well as strategies for successful submissions. It is open to all faculty members interested in this funding program, with a special emphasis on early-stage investigators. Registration is required.

Internal Funding Opportunities

UPCOMING DEADLINE! Faculty Creative Activities and Research (FCAR) Grant Program
This program provides up to $5,000 for one-year projects to support new research and creative endeavors in the humanities, arts, social sciences and related fields and to increase high-quality scholarly output by faculty.
Deadline: Thursday, Oct. 15

UPCOMING DEADLINE! Writing and Publishing (WRAP) Funding
This internal grant opportunity is designed to support faculty in “wrapping up” their single-authored or co-authored book projects and will help offset costs associated with the final stages of publication/production, when a book will soon appear in print or on digital platforms.
Deadline: Thursday, Oct. 15

Faculty Bridge Funding Program
This program allows a minimal level of activity while a proven principal investigator awaits expected federal funding, e.g., to prevent loss of key postdoctoral researchers, research faculty/staff or senior graduate students or loss of research materials in the interim period.
Deadline: Rolling 

Supporting Preliminary and Applied Research in Core Facilities (SPARC)
This program provides limited financial assistance to faculty investigators who wish to utilize University core facility instruments or services but do not currently have access to startup funds, discretionary accounts or active external grants to fund usage costs. This program is designed to reduce barriers to instrument access and to enable faculty to generate the preliminary data necessary to compete for external funding.
Deadline: Rolling

Team Building for Large, Collaborative Grants
These awards, intended for researchers with a track record of securing sponsored funding, aim to facilitate the development of collaborative research teams and support planning activities that enable the submission of a competitive research proposal to an external sponsor.
Deadline: Rolling

Limited Submission Opportunities

The following opportunities are active internal competitions. Competitions marked “Letter of Intent” require a short form only; please apply as soon as you know you are interested rather than waiting for the deadline.

NEW! 2026 VentureWell Ecosystem Futures Fellowship – Letter of Intent
Internal Letter of Intent Due Date: Tuesday, Oct. 6
Number of Internal Nominees: 2
This one-year fellowship supports higher education leaders as they advance STEM innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem growth centered in core themes of environmental and social sustainability and inclusive innovation.

NEW! FY2028 Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) Funding Requests
Internal Proposal Due Date: Thursday, Oct. 15
Syracuse University is soliciting proposals for CDS funding requests. Interested faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to socialize concepts with Chetna Chianese, senior director of research development, prior to submitting a request.

NEW! 2027 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
Internal Proposal Due Date: Wednesday, Oct. 21
Number of Internal Nominees: 3 (1 per discipline category)
These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members (born in or after 1985) working in the three disciplinary categories of life sciences, physical sciences and engineering and chemical sciences.

NEW! 2027 Blavatnik Regional Award Nomination for Postdoctoral Scientists
Internal Proposal Due Date: Wednesday, Oct. 21
Number of Internal Nominees: 15
These awards celebrate the excellence of outstanding postdoctoral scientists working in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering and chemical sciences. Nominations are requested from postdoctoral faculty advisors.

NEW! 2027 National Humanities Center Summer Residency
Internal Proposal Due Date: Tuesday, Oct. 27
Number of Internal Nominees: 1
Open to humanities faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, this four-week summer residency program is intended to assist in jump-starting or making substantial progress on a current project.

NEW! 2027 ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
Internal Proposal Due Date: Wednesday, Nov. 4
Number of Internal Nominees: 2
This program provides seed money intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities.

NEW! 2027 National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) – Letter of Intent
Internal Letter of Intent Due Date: Wednesday, Nov. 11
Number of Internal Nominees: 2
This program seeks to increase the number of academically promising low-income students who graduate with a S-STEM eligible degree and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge.

FY2028 Defense Programmatic Increase Requests
Internal Proposal Due Date: Thursday, Oct. 15
Syracuse University is soliciting proposals for programmatic increase requests for Department of Defense (DoD) Congressional funding. Interested faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to socialize concepts with Chetna Chianese, senior director of research development, prior to submitting a request.

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Internal deadlines for these opportunities have passed, but “slots” remain. Please email LimitedSubmissions@syr.edu if you are interested in applying to the sponsor.

2026 NYS Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) Program

November 2026 Retirement Research Foundation Grants

November 2026 NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program

For more information about limited submissions and to view all opportunities, visit the Office of Research webpage.

External Funding Opportunities

NYHealth 2027 Special Projects Fund
This fund is specifically designed to support organizations and timely, evidence-based projects that respond to the current moment and address important and emerging health challenges and threats. Syracuse University is coordinating applications to this program to ensure alignment of applications with the Foundation’s priorities; applicants should provide project information for review by Foundation Relations to determine funder alignment.
Internal Deadline: Wednesday, Sept. 30

Faculty UNYTE Translational Research Network Pilot Award
Proposals must involve a new or expanded collaboration with University of Rochester faculty, and may include faculty from other institutions in the UNYTE Translational Research Network to develop an innovative, team-based approach to a problem in health research that reflects the particular strengths of the members and their institutions.
Deadline: Monday, Oct. 19

Luce/ACLS Civic Education for Democratic Life Program (CEDLife) Grants
CEDLife is a new grant competition that seeks to reframe civic education as real-world preparation for meaningful, collaborative participation in democracy.
Deadline: Tuesday, Dec. 1

Hanover Research Grants Calendar for Early Career Research
This calendar lists upcoming grant opportunities focused on early career research, covering a range of disciplines and focus areas. More grants calendars can be found on the Office of Research Development SharePoint.

Humanities and Arts Opportunities for Fall 2026
A list of upcoming external funding opportunities, campus-wide opportunities (.docx) and key dates and deadlines (.docx) for humanities and creative arts faculty are available on the Humanities Center website.