The Graduate School

Institutional Nominations and Internal Competitions

Sponsors may limit the number of applications that an institution may submit for a particular grant program. The Graduate School will coordinate these submissions for research opportunities by determining whether multiple candidates wish to apply and organizing an impartial review to select the most competitive proposal(s) to send forward to the funding agency. Coordination of opportunities that have narrow target research areas will be delegated to the School/College or Department involved in those areas. If you wish to subscribe to the RSS Feed of these postings, please click on the orange logo to the right of the title at the top of the page.

• 2013-2014 INIC-Fall Fellowship Nominations
  • Application deadline: July 29, 2013
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Program
  • Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program
  • Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences (Note: The Pew has a separate competition this year and will not be part of INIC)
  • Searle Scholars Program
• Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: June 10, 2013
• NSF Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: May 28, 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NIH Developing and Improving Institutional Animal Resources (G20)

• Internal Competition Application deadline: May 31, 2013
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend
  • Internal competition application: September 11, 2013
• NIH High-End Instrumentation Grant Program
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 26, 2013
• Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award (SIA)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: May 8, 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: May 15, 2013
• NSF Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: May 17, 2013
  • Internal competition application: TBD
• NSF Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence-Based Reforms (WIDER)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: May 14 , 2013
  • Internal competition application: TBD

• American Diabetes Association Pathway to Stop Diabetes

  • Notice of Intent deadline: April 30, 2013
  • Internal competition application: May 10, 2013
• NSF Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 18, 2013
  • Internal competition application: TBD
• NIH Director's Biomedical Research Workforce Innovation Award: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) (DP7)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 12, 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: March 26, 2013
• NIH Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering Education (R25)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 1, 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: January 22, 2013
  • Internal competition application: TBD
• EPA/NSF Networks for Sustainable Molecular Design and Synthesis (NSMDS)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: January 18 , 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• EPA/NSF Networks for Characterizing Chemical Life Cycle (NCCLCs)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: January 18, 2013
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant Program
  • Notice of Intent deadline: February 28, 2013
• NSF Critical Zone Observatories (CZO)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: December 14, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• Defense Science Study Group (DSSG)
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: December 14, 2012
• NSF-Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: December 5, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: December 17, 2012
• Katherine Berns Van Donk Steenbock Professorship in Nutrition
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: February 15, 2012
• Graduate Student Awards for the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: November 15, 2012
  Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: November 16, 2012
• 2012-2013 INIC-Spring Fellowship Nominations
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: December 7, 2012, 4:30 pm
  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Awards Program (suspended 2012-13)
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
  • Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Awards
  • David and Lucile Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
  • Shaw Scientist Program
• Keck Foundation Science & Engineering Grant Program
  • Application deadline to Dean's Office: November 2, 2012
  • Deadline to Graduate School from Dean's Office: November 14, 2012
• Brain Research Foundation Fay/Frank Seed Grant Program
  • Notice of Intent deadline: October 17, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: October 26, 2012
• NSF Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: September 27, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 21, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• USIEF Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative (OSI)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 20, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: August 29, 2012
• Allen Distinguished Investigators Program
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 17, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: August 30, 2012
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 13 , 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI: BIC)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: July 31 , 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 15, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: August 22, 2012
• NIMHD Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Initiative in Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities: Planning Phase (R24)
• Notice of Intent deadline: May 11, 2012
• Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program-CIF21 Track (IGERT-CIF21)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: May 11, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 26, 2012
  • Internal competition application: April 4, 2012
• AXA Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • Notice of Intent deadline: February 8, 2012
  • Internal competition application: February 14, 2012
• USAID University Engagement through Higher Education Institutions
  • Notice of Intent deadline: February 17, 2012
  • Internal competition application: February 24, 2012
• NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering
  • Notice of Intent deadline: February 13, 2012
  • Internal competition application: TBD
• NIH Planning Grants for Hubs of Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Global Environmental and Occupational Health (P20)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: January 26, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Climate Change Education (CCE): Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) Program, Phase II (CCEP-II)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: January 10, 2012
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NIH Director's Early Independence Awards (DP5)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: December 2 , 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: November 14, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• Johnson Controls Advancements in Battery Energy Storage Systems
  • Deadline for Proposals: Monday, November 28, 2011 at 5 pm
• NSF Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: October 17, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: November 14, 2011
• NSF Sustainability Research Networks Competition (SRN)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: September 16, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 15, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: August 26, 2011

• NIH NCRR High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
  • Notice of Intent deadline: August 19, 2011
• NIH - NCRR Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) R25
  • Notice of Intent deadline: April 8, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NIH NIMHD Science Education Initiative
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 21, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD
• NSF Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships
  • Notice of Intent deadline: March 11, 2011
  • Internal Competition Application deadline: TBD

Note: We request that any single department submit no more than one internal nomination for limited competitions offering individual fellowships or career awards.

All Competitions

The programs and deadlines listed below are from the previous year; they may not be the same in the coming year.

• Procedure for all programs that limit the number of proposal submissions per campus

For more information contact Heather Daniels 608-263-7274 or Petra Schroeder 608-265-4868 or email gsgrants@grad.wisc.edu.