Sample Proposals

Sample Proposals

Proposal Resources
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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
  • Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research*
  • Beckman Young Investigator Program
  • Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface*
  • Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Enrichment Program*
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Program
  • Charles A. King Postdoctoral Research Fellowship*
  • CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
  • Cottrell Scholar Award
  • 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 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
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Life Sciences Research Foundation*
  • Mellon Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • National Institutes of Health
    • Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators
    • New Innovator Award
    • Pioneer Award
    • F32*
    • K99*
    • R01
    • R21
    • S10
    • T32
  • National Science Foundation
    • Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
    • Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST)
    • Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
    • Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
    • Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
    • 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
  • Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
  • Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
  • Provostial Fund for Arts & Humanities
  • Radcliffe Institute Fellowship
  • Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Russell Sage Foundation
  • Schmidt Sciences Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI)
  • Searle Scholars Program
  • 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
  • Swiss NSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship*
  • The William F. Milton Fund

 

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.