Finding Funding

These matching funds are aimed at maintaining tools that serve as workhorses in the daily activity of researchers and students. This program provides matching funds for replacement, revitalization, or enhancement of existing research tools where external funds are not available.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds support access to research resources for pilot studies and to generate preliminary data needed to pursue external funding opportunities. Allowable resources include on campus core facility instruments, animal care, data sets; external resources may be data sets, fees for archives, and other durable or tangible materials not available on campus.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These matching funds support access to research consultant resources for grant writing, team building, or other professional services that will enhance pursuit of external funding opportunities.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These matching funds support professional development training focused on improving communication and/or presentation skills that can help elevate overall team success in building interdisciplinary large-scale research collaborations and effectively communicating project impacts to the public.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for growing existing collaborations into large-scale initiatives with external partnerships to seek significant sponsored funding and address society’s challenges.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for starting high-risk, high reward interdisciplinary research (especially appropriate for mid-career faculty).

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for creating convergence-style teams that holistically address new problems by integrating arts, humanities and social science researchers with STEM researchers.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for enabling individual faculty to pursue a new fundamental research direction with potential for practical application (especially appropriate for mid-career faculty).

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This award was established with a generous estate gift from Ms. Margaret Barry, who wanted these funds to further cancer research.

This call runs every 2-3 years. Please check back in fiscal year 2025 for program updates.

• Seed Grants: This program focuses on seeding Digital and Precision Agriculture platform opportunities.
• Fellowship Program: This program focuses on platform opportunities specifically aimed at strengthening the expertise of companies developing digital ag solutions.
• Demonstration Funds: This program focuses on platform opportunities which specifically include product testing of a digital ag product.
• Commercialization Grants: This program focuses on platform opportunities which specifically have a welldefined path to commercialization.

• Seed Grant: This grant focuses on technology development, generation of intellectual property, or next level commercial funding and development in the Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Immunotherapeutics field. Priority is given to proposals with strong industry support and active collaboration toward commercial development.
• Innovation Fellowship: This program provides resources for research-focused entrepreneurs who have already established concepts and motivation to identify and commercialize novel technologies. Applicants should have a suitable technical knowledge and a strong interest in developing entrepreneurial talents to form a successful New  Venture or actively support technological commercialization in the vaccines and immunotherapeutics field.

• Seed Grants: This program is for developing capabilities in emerging biobased products areas – soil enhancement (e.g., biobased fertilizers, microbial soil treatments, etc.), biobased pesticides, alternative proteins, and nutritional probiotics – which have generated significant commercial interest.
• Technology Demonstration Projects: This program focus on opportunities for demonstrating technology feasibility on the pathway towards commercialization.

These funds are for developing long-term collaborations with interdisciplinary partners to pursue ideas that bridge the arts, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for supporting summer research, course release, or research support for research and creative projects that employ predominantly artistic or humanistic approaches and contribute to scholarly development and academic career progression of faculty in the arts, design, and humanities disciplines.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for organizing artistic and scholarly conferences, symposia, and seminars related to the arts, design, and humanities that attract national attention and bring recognition to work being done by Iowa State arts and humanities faculty.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for covering registration costs to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

These funds are for providing support for research or creative activity that incorporates a substantial digital component that will make a significant contribution to the scholarly development and academic career progression of faculty in the arts, design, and humanities disciplines.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This program is for Ph.D. students or exceptional M.S. students to strategically advance ISU research in the areas of study in science, agriculture, and space science.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This program is for supporting publication of meritorious scholarly works such as books or digital media.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This program is for supporting publication of scholarly peer reviewed articles in high quality open access journals that provide free and immediate access to content.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This program is for supporting the purchase of new research tools, replacing or expanding capabilities of existing tools, or de novo assembly of an integrated new tool.

Additional details can be found in this program’s RFP.

This program is for supporting sponsor mandated requirements for institutional cost share, or where voluntary committed cost share is strongly encouraged.

Additional details can be found on the OSPA website.

This program is for establishing research programs for tenure-eligible new faculty.

Guidelines and request form can be found here.