Sample Proposals

FAS Research Development has collected samples of successful proposals from recent award recipients that are available to FAS and SEAS faculty and PIs by request. Those proposals marked with an asterisk* are available to postdoctoral scholars.  If you are interested in obtaining a copy of one of these proposals, please contact us. Requests for sample proposals must come directly from FAS faculty, postdocs and PIs.

If you are interested in an award that is not on the list below, please let us know and we will do our best to add to our library.

Available proposal narratives:
 

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
    • Fellowships
    • Digital Innovation Fellowships
  • Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships*
  • Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface*
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Program
  • Charles A. King Postdoctoral Research Fellowship*
  • Climate Change Solutions Fund
  • Cottrell Scholar Award
  • Dana Foundation Program in Brain and Immuno-imaging
  • Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship
  • Department of Defense
    • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    • Army Research Office
    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award
    • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
    • Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
    • National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship/Vannevar Bush  Faculty Fellowship
    • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP)
  • Department of Energy Early Career Research Program
  • Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award
  • Ford Foundation
  • Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts Grants for Organizations
  • Henry Luce Foundation 
    • Religion and International Affairs Program
    • Asia Program
  • Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in Neurosciences
  • McDonnell Foundation Studying Complex Systems Award
  • Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars
  • The Milton Fund
  • Moore Inventor Fellows Program
  • NARSAD Young Investigator Grant*
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
    • Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
    • Summer Seminars and Institutes
    • Summer Stipends
  • National Institutes of Health 
    • Early Independence Award*
    • Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators
    • New Innovator Award
    • Pioneer Award
    • F32*
    • K99*
    • R01
    • R21
    • T32
  • National Science Foundation
    • Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)
    • Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BST)
    • Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
    • Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
    • Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
    • Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE)
    • Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
    • EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER)1
    • Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
    • Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
    • REU Supplement
  • New York Stem Cell Foundation Neuroscience Investigator Award
  • Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
  • Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
  • Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Russell Sage Foundation
  • Searle Scholars Program
  • Simons Investigators Program in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems
  • Sloan Research Fellowship
  • Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research
  • Smith Family Odyssey Award
  • Smith Richardson Foundation International Security and Foreign Policy Program
  • Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship
  • Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research
  • Weatherhead Center for International Affairs: Harvard Academy Junior Faculty Development Grants

 

1. Applicants are advised to contact the NSF program officer(s) whose expertise is most germane to the proposal topic prior to submission of an EAGER proposal. Each NSF program may have different requirements and procedures regarding proposal submission.