UD faculty have received more then 30 early career awards since 2013.

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
Leigh Botner
(302) 831-7088

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

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Internal Funding

UD grant programs and campus opportunities

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

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Limited Submissions

Limited application opportunities

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.

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External Funding

Funding sponsored by various agencies

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.

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New and Young Faculty

Funding sponsored by various agencies

RESOURCES

Databases

COS 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.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Find sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards and other financial support. NOTE: This database can only be accessed from within the University of Delaware Library.

Foundation Maps
An interactive mapping tool that combines the Foundation Center’s data on grantmakers and their grants with Google maps.

Grant Forward
A funding and research service, which provides information on federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

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
Extracellular Vesicles and Their Potential Applications in Biologic Production with CHO Cells	Eleftherios Papoutsakis	Merck & Company	$ 100,000
Predicting the Spread of Spotted Lanternfly and Resulting Forest and Orchard Impacts	Tara Trammell	USDA	$ 142,500
Diffusions on Combinatorially Structured State Spaces	Douglas Rizzolo	NSF	$ 179,650
Atomic-Scale Hybrids, Tuning the IR Dielectric Function through Superlattice Design	Stephanie Law Toner	NSF	$ 185,872
Mathematical Sciences: Probability and Statistics: Analysis of Stochastic Hybrid Systems with Applications to Synthetic Biology	Abhyudai Singh	DOD	$ 226,682
Professional Learning and Coaching Support to Mathematics Teachers in Brandywine School District	Faith Muirhead	ED	$ 283,848
CDS+E-MSS: Exact Homological Algebra for Computational Topology (ExHACT)	Chad Giusti	NSF	$ 351,988
Actomyosin Regulation of the Membrane Skeleton in Erythrocytes and Megakaryocytes	Velia Fowler	HHS	$ 392,556
Novel Transverse Spin Hall Effect Induced Phenomena in Single Ferromagnet and Magnetic Heterostructures	John Xiao	NSF	$ 399,906
Instrumentation Systems for Terahertz Photonic Device Development	Dennis Prather	DOD	$ 566,721
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Augmented Data Visualization Research and Development Using Cloud-Based Systems, Containers, Functions and vNext Display Technologies	Douglas White	DOD	$ 670,627
Lagrangian Transport Analysis: Leveraging Models and Observations	Helga Huntley	DOD	$ 862,489
Nature of Interplanetary Low Energy Electrons and Positrons	John Clem	NASA	$ 1,768,370

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RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

Anshuman Razdan, PhD
Associate Vice President
for Research Development

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

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

FUNDING / LIMITED SUBMISSIONS
Leigh Botner
Research Development Director
Ph: (302) 831-7088

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

TECHNOLOGY
Sudha Aravindan
Computing Support Specialist
Ph: (302) 831-8621

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.