1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsNSF Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (AST REU Sites) is sponsored by NSF MPS. Provides research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics.
Get a weekly digest of new grants like this
A free weekly digest of new foundation and federal funding opportunities as they're added to Granted. Unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (AST REU Sites) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (AST REU Sites) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in the funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .
All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. The NSF-wide REU Sites program is governed by a single solicitation but administered individually by each NSF Division or Directorate.
An REU Site should provide research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme and may be based in a single discipline or academic department or may be interdisciplinary and multi-departmental. The NSF-wide Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) solicitation governs the overall competition. The following clarifications/explanations are specifically for REU Site proposals submitted to the Division of Astronomical Sciences.
Note that if the planned research activities will be located at a Federal agency or its research labs (including Federally Funded Research and Development Centers [FFRDCs]), the PI must contact the AST REU Program Officer before preparing a proposal for submission, in accordance with PAPPG Chapter I.E.7 .
Interdisciplinary proposals are welcome (these are typically with physics or geosciences) but should be predominantly astronomy-focused. Proposals that have a minor astronomy component should be submitted to the dominant Division with a request for co-review by the Division of Astronomical Sciences.
It is not necessary to include all potential mentors (for the student researchers) as senior personnel, but the potential mentors and their role should be fully documented in the Project Description. With sufficient justification, AST will consider proposals from non-academic sites (e.g., observatories or laboratories) that have a higher cost-per-student than that suggested in the solicitation.
Please contact the Program Officer in advance if you anticipate exceeding the cost-per-student guideline. Typical awards are for a 3-year duration. Longer durations (up to 5 years) are possible for existing sites, but the proposal should address why the longer duration is appropriate.
Interested PIs are advised to explore the Online Directory of Astronomy REU Sites to determine the scope and breadth of fields funded under our program.
NOTE: All AST REU Site applicants should submit their proposals to the NSF-wide REU solicitation and choose "AST - MPS/AST - Special Programs in Astronomy" (Directorate: Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences [MPS]; Division: Division of Astronomical Sciences [AST]) as the appropriate Unit of Consideration. Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Astronomical Sciences (MPS/AST)
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Universities, Nonprofits, State/local governments, For-profits. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
NSF Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (AST REU Sites) is funded by NSF MPS. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
MGPV Travel Grant is sponsored by Geological Society of America (GSA), Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Volcanology Division. MGPV Travel grants support student travel to the annual GSA meeting. Applications are restricted to active graduate or undergraduate students who are the presenting authors of an accepted abstract at the annual GSA meeting.
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This omnibus research funding opportunity includes various program elements, with rolling submissions for Earth Science research through August 2026. Proposers to Earth Science using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation high-end computing facility must include specific budget details.
NSF 26-521 folds eight materials programs into one solicitation carrying $100 million and 200 to 300 awards. Proposals are accepted anytime — but no individual may appear as PI or co-PI on more than one proposal per fiscal year across all eight programs. That single sentence reshapes how materials labs collaborate.
Read articleNSF 26-523 folds 12 core physics programs and three cross-cutting ones into a single solicitation with $180 million and roughly 300 awards. Proposals are accepted anytime, but AMO-Experiment and Gravitational Physics still target November 25 and QIS targets December 8. Cost sharing is prohibited, indirect cost rates are now a tiebreaker, and NSF reserves the right to phase out long-duration efforts after comparative review.
Read articleNSF 26-520 consolidates 14 mathematical sciences programs into $200 million and 400 to 600 awards with no per-PI cap and no deadline. Folded into it are Research Training Groups and Focused Research Groups — department-scale, cohort-building competitions that ran on a fixed annual date. Here is why removing that date is a different kind of change for training grants than for single-investigator grants, and what math departments should do before the fall.
Read article