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Funding Opportunities

INTERNAL FUNDING EXTERNAL FUNDING LIMITED SUBMISSIONS NEW & YOUNG FACULTY RESOURCES

There are a number of internal and external funding opportunities available to researchers at the University of Delaware including internal seed grants. Below you will find links to different resources. If you have questions or contemplating submitting a grant proposal application and want to inquire how the Research Office can support please contact:

For more information contact
The Research Development Office
(302) 831-7088

Internal Funding

Internal UD funds are available to support research, scholarship and creative activities through annual university-wide competitions.

External Funding

External funding opportunities sponsored by various agencies from NASA to Delaware Department of Education. You must login with your UD credentials to view these opportunities.

Limited Submissions

Funding opportunities that have limits on the number that may be submitted from a single institution.

New and Young Faculty

These programs are intended for late postdoctoral investigators and new faculty. This resource has been developed by UC Berkeley and can be utilized by the UD’s research community.

Funding opportunities curated for you!

A resource showcasing funding available from federal, non-federal and international sponsors across all disciplines is available to UD Researchers by selecting a category below:

Agriculture & Food Sciences | Arts & Humanities | Business, Management & Commerce | Computer Science & Data Science | Early Career | Education | Energy | Engineering | Environment & Climate | Health & Medicine | Marine & Ocean | Natural & Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social Sciences | Sustainability | Honors & Awards | Training Grants | Postdocs | Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students | Workforce Development

 

 

RESOURCES

Databases

PIVOT Database
Detailed professional information for scientists and scholars worldwide.

Foundation Directory (UD Paid Version)
Provides information on U.S. grantmakers and their grants. The database has full-text search capability across more than 250,000 990s.

Government Grants database
Grants.gov system houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for federal grant-making agencies.

IGNITE- NineSigma Innovation Bulletin
NineSigma helps organizations in the public, private and nonprofit sectors 'connect with the world' to find new solutions, knowledge and partners to accelerate their innovation cycle.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)
The Oak Ridge Associated Universities is a consortium aimed at encouraging and enhancing the strengthening of U.S. research and education. Their opportunities are based on “field of interest,” begin throughout the year, and vary with respect to US citizenship requirements.

Recently Funded Projects

TITLE PI SPONSOR AMOUNT
Tensor Approaches for Simulating Kinetic Systems Jingmei Qiu DOD $ 7,494,937
Building a Computational and Data-Intensive Research Workforce and Network in the Mid-Atlantic Region Sunita Chandrasekaran NSF $ 4,679,886
An Inverse Design Methodology to Fabricate Low-Cost Agile Tools for Manufacturing Lightweight Automotive Components Srikanth Pilla DOE $ 3,738,474
Understanding ABCA4 Variants of Unknown Significance Through Computational and Functional Approaches Esther Biswas HHS $ 3,025,653
Risks, Impacts, & Strategies for Coastal Communities (RISCC): Advancing Convergent Science to Support Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Leah Palm-Forster NSF $ 3,013,396
Formulation and Evaluation of Biomass-Derived Polymers for High-Performance Applications Thomas Epps DOD $ 2,700,002
Sustainable Material and Process Development for Large Off-Shore Wind Blade Spar Caps John Tierney DOE $ 2,520,353
Deciphering Protein Ubiquitination with Chemical Biology Tools Zhihao Zhuang HHS $ 2,217,213
Motivating Mathematics in the Middle Grades: Learning through Rough Drafts and Revising Amanda Jansen NSF $ 1,759,814
Measuring the Ecosystem Benefits of US Army Corps of Engineers Water Projects Maik Kecinski DOD $ 1,500,000
Allelic Expression Dynamics During Development and its Roles in Genotype-Phenotype Relationships Behnam Abasht NSF $ 995,173
Advancing Trustworthy Machine Learning for Distributed Scientific Data Analytics Xi Peng NSF $ 572,756
Unlocking the Deep Ocean Circulation Mysteries of the Subantarctic South Pacific Ocean and its Influence on Climate Over the Last 2 Million Years Chandranath Basak NSF $ 550,417
Improving Outcomes for Child and Youth Victims of Human Trafficking Rochelle Brittingham DOJ $ 378,783
Mothers’ Support and Health in Pregnancy & Parenting Katharine Kaplan HHS $ 213,979
The Synthesis of Polymer Ionophores and Fabrication of Potentiometric Sensors for Carbonate Ion Detection in the Ocean Wei-Jun Cai NSF $ 198,306
All Funded Projects >
RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

K. Eric Wommack, PhD
Senior Associate Vice President for Research

Jennifer Doran
Administrative Assistant
Ph: (302) 831-6703

David Barczak
Communications Manager
Ph: (302) 831-8169

John McMillan
Computing Support Specialist
Ph: (302) 831-8621

Ciara O’Connell
Research Development Manager
Ph: (302) 831-7088

Jennifer Roth
Research Education Coordinator
Ph: (302) 831-3777

Research Development
Ph: (302) 831-7088

 

GOVERNMENT SPONSOR LINKS
*NOTE: The University of Delaware’s Office of General Counsel oversees all legal services for the University of Delaware. Matters pertaining to research (including research-related agreements, research-related compliance, and research-related intellectual property) may be directed to the Research Office, which will coordinate with the General Counsel’s Office, as appropriate.