Limited Submission Program Announcements

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2025 Campus Announcements:

Announcement Date
Announcement
10/18/2025

GitLab Foundation AI for Economic Opportunity - Demonstration & Scaling
Insitutional limit is 3 applications per school or department. Please contact your department chair for information of your unit's process.
10/17/2025

Mellon New Directions Fellowships in the Humanities 2025
10/16/2025

SebastianStrong Foundation Discovery Science Award
10/14/2025

Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science and Engineering Programs Spring 2026
09/30/2025

St. Baldrick's Foundation Pediatric Cancer Grants Spring 2026
09/30/2025

Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program
09/30/2025

NIH Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers
09/30/2025

Revised: UCOP Early Career Research Awards
09/12/2025

NIH Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory (P30)
09/11/2025

NSF Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS)
09/11/2025

Keck Foundation Bridge Funding for Basic Science Research
09/09/2025

Moore Foundation Natural Sciences Postdoc Fellowships
09/08/2025

UCOP Early Career Research Awards
09/04/2025

UCOP's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellows
(Student nominations sought from deans, self nominations not accepted. Interested students should
contact their dean's office. Interested deans can contact ltdsubs@berkeley.edu before 9/18) 
08/28/2025

Brain Research Foundation Seed Grants
08/27/2025

NIH Biomedical Research Facilities (C06)
08/14/2025

NSF Programmable Cloud Laboratories Test Bed Program
08/14/2025 Carnegie Fellows Program in Political Polarization
08/04/2025

UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee Bridge Grants
07/24/2025

Frontiers Planet Prize
07/22/2025

NIH National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (U2)
07/21/2025

NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdocs (K99/R00)
07/21/2025

Paul Mellon Center in British Art Curatorial Research Grant
07/16/2025

NEH Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
07/15/2025

NIH Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities (S15)
07/14/2025

Rita Allen Scholars for Early-Career Biomedical Researchers
07/14/2025

Velux Foundation Challenges in Forest Management 2025
07/11/2025

National Forest Foundation Collaborative Capacity Program 

(note: because of the tight timeline, this is posted as first come)
07/01/2025

Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund
07/01/2025

Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics
06/25/2025

Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship Program 
(Student nominations sought from faculty, self nominations not accepted)
06/24/2025 NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) 
Campus process cancelled. NSF has removed the 2025 application window. 
06/23/2025 NEH Rediscovering Our Revolutionary Tradition
06/17/2025 Searle Scholars Program 2025
06/16/2025 NSTC Workforce Awards Program
06/16/2025 Mathers Foundation Grants for Life Sciences Basic and Translational Research
06/13/2025 Mark Foundation Endeavor Award
06/12/2025 Schmidt Science Polymaths 2026
06/12/2025 NSF Research Traineeship Program (NRT)
Campus process suspended. NSF has updated the NRT program status to "waiting for new publication." 
06/11/2025 FEMA Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) Grant Program 2025
06/10/2025 Creative Australia Grants for Arts Projects
05/30/2025 DOT Commercial Motor Vehicle (HP-CMV)
05/29/2025 Komen Foundation Early Career Breast Cancer Research Awards
05/22/2025 Engineering Information Foundation Grants
05/21/2025 NEA Grants for Arts Projects
05/06/2025 Mallinckrodt Biomedical Research Grants
05/02/2025 2025 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards (Deans are invited to make one nomination)
04/30/2025 ADA Pathway to Stop Diabetes Award 2025
04/16/2025 Union Pacific Local Grants
04/16/2025 SBA Empower to Grow (E2G) Program Manufacturing
04/03/2025 AXA Postdoctoral Fellowships
04/03/2025 Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award
04/01/2025 William T. Grant Scholars 2025
03/26/2025 NSF Advanced Computing Systems & Services
03/21/2025 Beckman Scholars Program for Undergraduate Research
03/20/2025 NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00)
03/20/2025 NIH Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Centers (U19)
03/19/2025 The ISTAT Foundation Grants (International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading)
03/19/2025 Google PhD Fellowships (Chairs are invited to make nominations to VCRO for consideration here.)
03/18/2025 NIH Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1)
3/11/2025 Keck Foundation Medical Research and Science and Engineering Programs Fall 2025
3/11/2025 NIH S10 Instrumentation Programs - SIG and HEI
3/10/2025 Hearst Foundations Program Grants 2025
3/10/2025 Huo Family Foundation Grants for Digital Technology and the Brain
3/06/2025 Anna Lalor Burdick Program for Reproductive Health Education
03/04/2025 HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation
03/03/2025 Burroughs-Wellcome Fund: Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers
2/28/2025 Schmidt Science Fellows (Deans are invited to make nominations to VCRO for consideration here.)
02/21/2025 Luce Foundation American Art Exhibition Competition
02/21/2025 Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation Grants
02/18/2025 Artificial Intelligence Action Plan Request for Information
2/12/2025 Pew-Stewart Scholars Scholars for Cancer Research 2026
2/12/2025 Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences 2026
01/30/2025 CLIR Recordings at Risk
01/30/2025 NEA Research Labs
01/29/2025 HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program for Paraprofessionals
01/29/2025 Breast Cancer Alliance Research Grants
01/28/2025 DOE Circular Supply Chains Accelerator
01/27/2025 NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
01/27/2025 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
01/23/2025 DOJ STOP School Violence Program (this opportunity has been cancelled by DOJ)
01/23/2025 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
01/22/2025 DOE EXPRESS: 2025 Exploratory Research for Extreme-Scale Science
01/22/2025 DOE Scientific Discovery through Computing (SCiDAC): Partnerships in Basic Energy Sciences
01/16/2025 NSF Scholarships in STEM Network Research Hubs (S-STEM-Net)
01/16/2025 HRSA Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program (HTPCP)
01/15/2025 NSF Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
01/15/2025 DOE Fusion Energy Private Facility Research Program
01/14/2025 DOE Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
01/08/2025 CDC Pilot Studies for HIV Prevention Behavioral Interventions

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