Special Programs

Moore Inventor Fellows 2020

The Moore Inventor Fellowship supports scientist-inventors who create new tools and technologies with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation’s areas of interest: scientific discovery, environmental conservation and patient care. Our goal is to partner with their host institutions to invest in these young inventor scientists and their inventions, to allow awardees to focus on their inventions, creating the scientific and technological revolutions of the future.

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Vallee Scholars 2020

Recognizing that outstanding, young, independent investigators are the source for future advances in the biomedical sciences and of their need for flexible, unrestricted funding to conduct their research, the Vallee Scholars program makes grants of $300,000 – to be spent over a period of four years - to junior faculty carrying out basic biomedical research.

Extension Collaboration Grants Request for Proposals 2020

Overview

The University of Illinois Extension and Public Engagement Connection Center (EPECC) announces an opportunity for UIUC researchers and Extension professionals to apply for Extension Collaboration Grants. These grants are designed to fund collaborative work among University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers and Extension personnel. Grants will support discovery and translation of university research into applied information and education that will be disseminated t

Major Research Instrumentation Program 2020

The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program serves to increase access to multi-user scientific and engineering instrumentation for research and research training in our Nation's institutions of higher education and not-for-profit scientific/engineering research organizations. An MRI award supports the acquisition or development of a multi-user research instrument that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs.

MRI provides support

Academic Professional Development Fund Due to strong demand, the fund has been expended for this fiscal year and we are no longer accepting applications. Submitted applications will be kept on file in the event funding becomes available.