Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Springfield, Ill. | October 13 2025 | $67 Million in Grants Announced to Expand No-Till and Strip-Till Practices across Illinois | The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) have announced $67 million in funding through theContinue Reading
Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington, D.C. | September 29, 2025 | Accelerating Research Translation (25-548) | The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to increase the scale and pace of advancing discoveries resulting from academic research into tangible solutions that benefit the public. The overarchingContinue Reading
Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington, D.C. | August 1 2025 | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134) | The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in bothContinue Reading
| To AI or not to AI: That is the question | I recently built a new “AI” computer (which basically means an expensive gaming machine!) in order to take advantage of new Large Language Models (LLMs) that allow users to interact with prompts run locally (supposedly) on one’s ownContinue Reading
Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards Featured Funding Opportunity Washington, D.C. | June 30 2025 | Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program (FR-6900-N-13) | The purpose of the Lead Hazard Reduction (LHR) Grant Program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead poisoning byContinue Reading
