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Funding Resources
Sites and resources relevant to funding educational research are included below. Also included are guides produced by the Bureau and links to database tools to help explore and select the best funding options for potential research projects.
The Research Opportunities Office conducts targeted searches of funding opportunities for College faculty seeking support for a particular project. This service is available on request to ROO staff.
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Funding Opportunities Calendar
List of faculty and student funding opportunities by application and proposal due date.
Bureau Resources
IES Funding
Lunch seminar sponsored by the Bureau and held in the Spring and Fall. Handouts and presentation material about applying for IES grants are available online.
Graduate Student & Dissertation Funding Seminar
Sponsored by the Bureau and held on July 28, 2009. Handouts for graduate students applying for dissertation funding are available online.
Funding Databases
Graduate College Fellowship Opportunities
View fellowship opportunities for graduate students by name, by deadline date, or category. The Graduate College also has a listing of Assistantship opportunites for Illinois graduate students.
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service)
Subscription only funding database available to members of the UIUC community and other subscriber colleges and universities. IRIS is based at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.Tutorial
GRANTS.GOV
All discretionary grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies. Tutorial
GRAPES
Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Extramural Support)-funding database supported by the UCLA Graduate Division.
Federal Agencies
State Agencies
Non-Profit Foundations
Funding News Services
Each of the following funders and services offer free subscriptions for information provided via email or on personalized web pages.
- IRIS Alert Service (University of Illinois)
- EDInfo (U.S. Department of Education)
- Federal Register (U.S. Department of Education)
- MyNSF (National Science Foundation)
- OELA Newsline (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs)
- ResearchResearchLite (formerly Sciencewise.com)
- Guide-Weekly Table of Contents Listserv (National Institutes of Health)
- Behavioral & Social Science Funding Announcements (BSSR-GUIDE-L) (National Institutes of Health)
Links to Additional Resources
- UIUC Graduate College Funding Sources
- External Funding Sources & Directories
- Social Psychology Network
- Social Science Research Council
- UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science Resources
Resource Archive
Federal Funding for STEM Education Research Seminar
Workshop sponsored by the Bureau on applying for STEM Education Research grants. Handouts and presentation material available online.NSF Funding
Workshop sponsored by the Bureau on applying for NSF grants. Handouts and presentation material are available online.NIH Funding
Workshop sponsored by the Bureau on applying for NIH grants. Handouts are available online.Doctoral Student Funding Information
ROO offers information on dissertation and pre-dissertation opportunities for individual students in education. Opportunities can be filtered by minority status, gender, and citizenship. A searchable database for specific funding opportunities is available. Search funding opportunties