Open Call Funding

Below, find general funding opportunities of broad interest to the UT Austin research community. There are no limits to the number of proposals that may be submitted by UT Austin investigators for open call funding opportunities. 

To see funding opportunities from a specific agency posted here, or to have a specific awardee listed, please email vpr.rdt@austin.utexas.edu. 

Sponsored by:
National Institutes of Health
Sponsor Deadline:
05/28/2025
Who can apply:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support. PD/PIs must be designated Early Stage Investigators (ESI) by NIH as defined in NOT-OD-17-101.
Fields/Areas:
The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist.
Sponsored by:
National Institutes of Health
Sponsor Deadline:
06/02/2025
Who can apply:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with their organization to develop an application for support.
Fields/Areas:
instrumentation, shared-use, biomedical research, behavioral research
Sponsored by:
National Institutes of Health
Sponsor Deadline:
06/10/2025
Who can apply:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support.
Fields/Areas:
diabetes, translational science, type 2 diabetes
Sponsored by:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sponsor Deadline:
06/17/2025
Who can apply:
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s))
Fields/Areas:
clinical, pain, opioid use, OUD, device, diagnostics, treatment, technology development, optimization, human
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
07/23/2025
Who can apply:
Early-career faculty. A Principal Investigator may submit only one CAREER proposal per annual competition. 
Fields/Areas:
Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Geosciences, computer sciences, information Science, engineering,  social, economic Sciences, education
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
07/30/2025
Who can apply:
Persons with a PhD, MD
Fields/Areas:
cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/01/2025
Who can apply:
no restrictions or limits.  
Fields/Areas:
spatial distribution of human activity, environmental processes, geographical theory, environment
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/01/2025
Who can apply:
PI eligibility limit varies by the type of proposal. See Program Description in link. 
Fields/Areas:
Crime, Violence, and Policing, Cyberspace, Forensic Science, Governance and Courts, Human Rights and Comparative Law, Information Technology, Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/15/2025
Who can apply:
no restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
public policy, decision-making, politics, preference formation and expression, electoral processes, voting, public administration
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
08/15/2025
Who can apply:
Open to all qualified applicants.
Fields/Areas:
Supports the development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). EAR-supported geoinformatics opportunities will fit into three tracks: Catalytic track, Facility track, and Sustainability track. These tracks broadly support the lifecycle of geoinformatics resource development, from pilots (Catalytic) to broad implementation (Facility) to sunsetting and long-term sustainability (Sustainability).
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/02/2025
Who can apply:
By the submission deadline, any PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position. 
Fields/Areas:
open-source technology, small community, technology transfer
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/04/2025
Who can apply:
No restrictions or limits
Fields/Areas:
ecosystems, biodiversity, environmental change, environment, climate change, geology, paleontology, ecology, envolution
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/12/2025
Who can apply:
Any PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position. 
Fields/Areas:
environment, sustainability, computing, environmental impacts of technology
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/12/2025
Who can apply:
PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position.
Fields/Areas:
environment, sustainability, computing, environmental impacts of technology
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/29/2025
Who can apply:
PI, co-PI, or other senior project personnel must hold either: a tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position at a US-based campus of an organization eligible to submit. PI's can apply to no more than one Core Programs, Large Projects proposal. 
Fields/Areas:
computer science, computation, information science, engineering
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
09/29/2025
Who can apply:
tenured or tenure-track position, or a primary, full-time, paid appointment in a research or teaching position
Fields/Areas:
computer science, information, cyber systems, computer networking, electrical engineering,
Sponsored by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sponsor Deadline:
10/02/2025
Who can apply:
Open to all qualified applicants.
Fields/Areas:
Invites proposals for fundamental research (basic research or use-inspired basic research) that advances knowledge in one or more of the three Research Tracks: Research on STEM Learning and Learning Environments, Research on Broadening Participation in STEM fields, and Research on STEM Workforce Development.