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The Penn State Limited Submission Program manages the response to research funding opportunities for which a limited number of submissions are permitted from Penn State.
The Vice President for Research (VPR), in close communication with the college research deans and interdisciplinary consortia directors, is charged with implementing the Penn State Limited Submission Procedure.
Please contact limitedsubs@psu.edu should you have any questions.
Currently Accepting Notices of Intent/Proposals
If you would like to be considered as a Penn State institutional applicant for one of these opportunities, please submit a Proposal or Notice of Intent. Depending on the level of interest, a downselect competition may be held.
| Funding Agency | OVPR NOI Deadline | OVPR Downselect Deadline | Agency Final Deadline | ||
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| National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations | National Endowment for the Humanities | Apr 14, 2021 | May 14, 2021 | ||
| Data-Intensive Scientific Machine Learning and Analysis (DE-FOA-0002493) | DOE | Monday, April 12, 2021 - 4:00pm | May 27, 2021 | ||
| 2022 Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research | Pew Charitable Trusts | Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 4:00pm | Sep 09, 2021 | ||
| 2022 Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences | Pew Charitable Trusts | Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 4:00pm | Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Programs 2021-22 | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation | Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 4:00pm | Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| William T. Grant Scholars Program 2021 | William T. Grant Foundation | Tuesday, May 4, 2021 - 4:00pm | Jun 19, 2021 | ||
| National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends (20200923-FT) | National Endowment for the Humanities | Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 4:00pm | Sep 22, 2021 |
Currently in Downselect/Closed
Penn State may only submit a specific number of proposals to these funding opportunities. The number of NOIs received require that an internal competition take place, thus, a downselect process has commenced. No Penn State researchers may apply to any opportunity listed on this page outside of this downselect process.
All current downselect applications are provided in the InfoReady system, at psu.infoready4.com. You may also click on the titles below to apply for limited submission awards that are currently in downselect. (This link opens in a new window; Penn State WebAccess log in required to see application.)
Current Downselects:
| OVPR Downselect Deadline | Agency LOI Deadline | Agency Final Deadline | Notes | ||
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(CLOSED) Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops
he Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops (Current... |
May 11, 2021 | No Applicants | |||
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(CLOSED) HRSA-21-090 Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program for Paraprofessionals
The purpose of the BHWET Program for Paraprofessionals is... |
Apr 12, 2021 | Margaret Bacheler (OSVPCC) | |||
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(CLOSED) Data Science to Advance Chemical and Materials Sciences DE-FOA-0002474
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest in receiving new... |
Apr 12, 2021 | Zi-Kui Liu (E&MS); Darren Pagan (E&MS) | |||
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(CLOSED) NIH PAR 20-103 Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1) (Clinical Trial Optional) May 202
Many research questions in biomedical science can... |
May 27, 2021 | No Applicants | |||
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(CLOSED) HRSA-21-086 Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance and Evaluation (BHWD TAE) Program
The purpose of the program is to develop and provide... |
May 03, 2021 | No Applicants | |||
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(CLOSED) Extension Collaboration on Immunization Teaching and Engagement (EXCITE) Activity 1
Cooperative Extension is entering a new partnership with the Centers for... |
Apr 30, 2021 | Katherine Cason (AgSci, Extension) | |||
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(CLOSED) NEA Challenge America
Challenge America offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the... |
Apr 22, 2021 | No Applicants | |||
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(CLOSED) Henry Luce Foundation: Advancing Public Knowledge on Race, Justice, and Religion in America
The Henry Luce Foundation’s Theology Program invites new inquiries... |
Jan 07, 2021 | Feb 15, 2021 | Jun 15, 2021 | No Applicants | |
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(CLOSED) DE-FOA-0002449 Materials and Chemical Sciences Research for Quantum Information Science
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest... |
Jan 07, 2021 | Jan 27, 2021 | Apr 21, 2021 | Shengxi Huang (CoE); Swaroop Ghosh (CoE) | |
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(CLOSED) FFAR New Innovator in Food and Agriculture Research Award - 2021
The Foundation for Food & Agricultural Research (FFAR) seeks nominations for its 2021 New... |
Feb 08, 2021 | Mar 03, 2021 | May 05, 2021 | Liana Burghardt (College of Agricultural Sciences) | |
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(CLOSED) Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) Grants
The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation identifies and invests in leading edge research that demonstrates... |
Feb 11, 2021 | Mar 01, 2021 | May 31, 2021 | No Applicants | |
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(CLOSED) NSF 21-553 - Enabling Quantum Leap: Quantum Interconnect Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems (QuIC-TAQS)
The Quantum... |
Feb 16, 2021 | Apr 12, 2021 | Mikael Rechtsman (ECoS) | ||
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(CLOSED) DE-FOA-0002460 - X-Stack: Programming Environments for Scientific Computing
The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces... |
Feb 17, 2021 | Mar 01, 2021 | Apr 12, 2021 | No Applicants | |
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(CLOSED) Chemical Upcycling of Polymers (DE-FOA-0002462)
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces its interest in receiving applications on behalf of... |
Mar 01, 2021 | Mar 10, 2021 | May 12, 2021 | Samy Madbouly (PS Behrend); Robert Hickey (E&MS); Bert Chandler (CoE) | |
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(CLOSED) NIH-PAR-20-223 Enhancing Science, Technology, EnginEering, and Math Educational Diversity (ESTEEMED) Research Education Experiences (R25)
he NIH Research... |
Mar 25, 2021 | May 24, 2021 | Jun 24, 2021 | ||
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(CLOSED) DOE Integrated Computational and Data Infrastructure (ICDI) for Scientific Discovery (DE-FOA-0002482)
The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing... |
Mar 29, 2021 | Apr 02, 2021 | May 14, 2021 | Darren Pagan (E&MS); Zi-Kui Liu (E&MS); Jingjing Li (CoE) | |
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(CLOSED) DOE Entanglement Management and Control in Transparent Optical Quantum Networks (DE-FOA-0002476)
The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (... |
Mar 30, 2021 | Apr 05, 2021 | May 17, 2021 | No Applicants | |
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(CLOSED) Prevent Cancer Foundation 2021 Community Grants
Mission |
Mar 31, 2021 | Apr 21, 2021 | No Applicants | ||
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(CLOSED) DOE Industrial Assessment Centers (DE-FOA-0002452)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office... |
Mar 31, 2021 | Apr 01, 2021 | Apr 22, 2021 | No Appplicants | |
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(CLOSED) Critical Minerals & Materials: Chemical and Materials Sciences Research on Rare Earth and Platinum Group Elements (DE-FOA-0002483)
The DOE SC program in... |
Apr 02, 2021 | Apr 12, 2021 | Jun 09, 2021 | Athanasios Karamalidis (E&MS); Andrew Smye (E&MS) | |
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Research and Development Grant, Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 (31310021K0002)
The program (formerly the Integrated University Program)... |
Apr 05, 2021 | May 14, 2021 | |||
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(CLOSED) EXPRESS: Randomized Algorithms for Extreme Scale Science (DE-FOA-0002497)
SUMMARY |
Apr 07, 2021 | Apr 16, 2021 | May 19, 2021 | Kamesh Madduri (CoE) |