Funding Opportunities
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 |
| Phages as Lenses to Study Virus Assembly and Virus: Host Interactions | Tatyana Polenova | HHS | $ 1,246,296 |
| Expanding and Supporting Equity and Inclusion in Financial Literacy for All Students | Kelly Sherretz | Delaware Department of Education | $ 200,000 |
| Managing Notifiable Avian Influenza | Brian Ladman | USDA | $ 43,540 |
| Enabling Scalable Evaluation of Fairness in Health LLMs | Rahmatollah Beheshti | UDRF | $ 35,000 |
| Project STREAM: Strategic and Community-Engaged Teaching, Research and Education across Multimodal Podcast Use | Jin Yao Kwan | GUR | $ 15,000 |
| Experiences of Gender-Based Violence and Institutional Betrayal Among Indigenous Women in the US | Angela Hattery | GUR | $ 14,909 |
| Mesoscale Eddies as a Freshwater Export Mechanism Along the Antarctic Peninsula | Frederike Benz | Antarctic Science Ltd | $ 7,440 |
| Early Development of Knee Osteoarthritis following ACL Reconstruction | Karin Gravare Silbernagel | Rheumatology Research Foundation | $ 1,000 |
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
- State of Delaware
- US Government
- Dept of Education Grant Opportunities
- Dept of Agriculture
- Dept of Health and Human Services (HRSA) Open Opportunitiess
- Dept of Commerce
- Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Funding
- Dept of Defense
- Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) Funding
- Dept of Energy
- Dept of Homeland Security
- Dept of Justice
- Dept of Labor
- Dept of State
- Dept of the Interior
- Dept of Transportation
- Dept of Treasury
- Delaware EPSCoR Funding Opportunities
- Federal Govt Grants (Grants.Gov)
- NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) Research Opportunities
- National Archives Grant Program
- National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Funding Opportunities
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grants
- National Endowment of Arts Grants
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Grants and Funding
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Funding Opportunities
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Funding Opportunities
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Funding
- NSF Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) Funding Opportunities