Funding and Faculty Development

Funding Opportunities

Finding funding opportunities on campus is supported in several ways.

GrantForward

The funding search engine GrantForward enables researchers to find opportunities that are customized to their account's automatically generated profile.

Limited Submissions

Certain funding opportunities are limited, often by quotas per institution, which requires DRI to run internal competitions to determine which prospective applicant(s) may apply for a given limited submission opportunity. Find a partial list of identified opportunities and additional competition guidelines on the limited submissions page.

Faculty Development

In addition to the Office of Faculty Development and Enhancement, the Division of Research and Innovation offers training and workshop opportunities for faculty and staff to learn more about finding research opportunities, writing proposals, protecting their intellectual property (patents), and starting companies.

Regular training and workshop are being conducted in following sectors:

Researchers can also receive personalized support with finding and applying for funding opportunities through the Research Development office.

Teaching

The Teaching and Faculty Support Center (TFSC) also provides faculty development opportunities in the area of teaching. More information about TFSC may be found at http://tfsc.uark.edu.

Early-Career Faculty

Funding opportunities offered specifically for young and early-career faculty that have been identified by DRI are posted below.

Department of Defense
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program

Deadline: July/August
Synopsis: The Air Force YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. Each award will be funded at the $120,000 level for three years.

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Army Research Office Young Investigator Program

Deadline: Open
Synopsis: The objective of the YIP is to attract to Army research outstanding young university faculty members, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. This program is open to U.S. citizens, Nationals, and resident aliens holding tenure-track positions at U.S. universities and colleges, who have held their graduate degrees (Ph.D. or equivalent) for fewer than five years at the time of application. YIP awards are up to $50,000 per year for three years.

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Congressional Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) Career Development Award

Deadline: Varies by program
Synopsis: Funding program areas vary and may include: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Autism, Bone Marrow Failure, Breast Cancer, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Genetic Studies of Food Allergies, Gulf War Illness, Lung Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurofibromatosis, Ovarian Cancer, Peer Reviewed Cancer, Peer Reviewed Medical, Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic, Prostate Cancer, Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Some of these program areas, such as Peer Reviewed Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Lung Cancer, and Breast Cancer Research Programs have included New Investigator Awards or Career Development Awards.

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award

Deadline: January
Synopsis: The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. The YFA program provides funding, mentoring, and industry and DoD contacts to awardees early in their careers so they may develop their research ideas in the context of DoD needs. The program focuses on untenured faculty, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding.

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Office for Naval Research Young Investigator Program

Deadline: January
Synopsis: ONR’s Young Investigator Program (YIP) seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives are to attract outstanding faculty members to the Department of the Navy’s research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Proposals may request up to $170,000 per year for three years.

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Department of Energy
 Early Career Program

Deadline: Pre-application due in September
Synopsis: Supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Biological and Environmental Research; Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics. Applicants must be no more than ten years beyond the Ph.D. at the deadline for the application.

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Department of Justice
National Institute of Justice New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Deadline:  March
Synopsis: Supports early investigators to conduct studies that inform public safety, crime control and prevention, and/or the fair and impartial administration of criminal justice in the U.S.

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
List of Programs for New and Early Stage Investigators Website
Director’s New Innovator Award

 Deadline: September
Synopsis: Part of the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, the New Innovator Award supportsexceptionally creative, early-career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects with no preliminary data required.

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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

Deadline: July
Synopsis: The intent of the program is to provide stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding researchers and educators who effectively integrate teaching, learning and discovery. The minimum CAREER award size is $500,000 for a five-year period for proposals submitted to the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), or the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). For proposals submitted to all other Directorates, the minimum award size is $400,000 over five years.

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