Issue: ORN-2026-11
NJIT Research Newsletter includes recent awards, and announcements of research related seminars, webinars, national and federal research news related to research funding, and Grant Opportunity Alerts (with links to sections). The Newsletter is posted on the NJIT Research Website https://research.njit.edu/funding-opportunities.
Special Announcements
VentureWell is inviting student innovators to apply for the Summer 2026 E-Team Program
The E-Team Program, part of the VentureWell Accelerator, supports student ventures as you embark down the path you’re likely to take as an innovator and entrepreneur. We help you advance your invention through a powerful mix of up to $25,000 in grant funding, entrepreneurship training, mentorship by dedicated staff, national recognition, and networking with peers and industry experts.
Do you have an idea that can change the world? Every year, we award over $800,000 in non-dilutive E-Team Program grants to early-stage innovator teams that develop scalable innovations which aim to solve a large social, health, or environmental challenge. Teams can receive up to $25,000 to advance their innovation, and there are info sessions and resources available to help applicants. The program is open to students at U.S.-based institutions and supported by partners like The Lemelson Foundation, Cooley LLP, and Qualcomm.
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CTR Workshop on PFAS Challenges:
Translational Research and Technology Innovations for PFAS Decontaminations
Full Announcement and Preliminary Program: Click Here
Sponsored by
NSF ART (Accelerating Research Translation) Program at NJIT
National Academy of Inventor (NAI) – NJIT Chapter
Co-organizers and Co-Chairs
Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT; Executive Director – Center for Translational Research
Nick DeNichilo, Vice Co-Chair, NJIT Board of Trustees; Former President &CEO at Mott MacDonald – North America (retired)
Siavash Isazadeh, Ph.D., P.E., Sr. Technical. Director, Technical, Strategy & Innovation, Veolia-North America
Richard Calbi Jr. P.E., P.P., Director of Operations – Ridgewood Water, NJ
Stewart Abrams, Director of Remediation Technology, Langan Engineering & Environmental Service
Date and Venue: April 24, 2026, 8.00 AM – 5.00 PM; Ballroom A&B, NJIT Campus Center
Breakfast and Light Lunch Provided
Registration Requested: Please Click Here to Register Now
The Center for Translational Research (CTR) workshop on PFAS Challenges is focused on translational research and innovative technologies for detecting and managing PFAS related contaminants in water, soil, air, infrastructure and consumable products. The CTR Workshop will engage faculty, research staff, undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs and external partners including major NJ universities, industry, utilities, business accelerators, government and community stakeholders who are pursuing or are interested in translational research and innovative technology development for removing the PFAS related contaminations in water, soil, air, infrastructure and environment for sustainable societies.
Who Should Attend: Faculty, research staff, undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs and external partners including major NJ universities, industry, utilities, business accelerators, government and community stakeholders who are pursuing or are interested in translational research and innovative technology development for removing the PFAS related contaminations in water, soil, air, infrastructure and environment for sustainable societies should attend and would be benefited from the workshop.
The CTR 2026 workshop attendees will have the opportunity to learn about recent developments and current and future challenges in PFAS decontamination technologies and associated regulatory policies for its societal impact from the leaders in industry, academia and government sectors.
In addition, the Industry-University-Community Showcase on Technology Innovations in PFAS Decontamination will feature more than 30 companies, academic research centers and laboratories, and global, national, state and regional utilities working in the cutting-edge of technology innovations and deployment for addressing the critical challenges of PFAS management in environment, soil, water, consumable products and infrastructure.
Seats are limited. Please Register Here Now.
Grant Opportunity Alerts
NSF: Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE)
NIH: Forecast: HEAL Initiative: Optimization of Therapeutic Medical Devices through Team Science Mechanistic Research (RM1); Forecast: BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN): Coordinating Unit for Biostatistics, Informatics, and Engagement (CUBIE)
Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Emerging Weapons and Munitions Systems and Soldier Lethality Related Technologies
Department of Energy: The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI
NASA: B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research
Recent Research Grant and Contract Awards
In the News
White House releases regulatory vision for AI: The White House unveiled a new artificial intelligence policy framework on Friday that features seven guiding recommendations to support the administration’s policy recommendations for Congress. The National Policy Framework for AI’s seven pillars are Protecting Children and Empowering Parents; Safeguarding and Strengthening American Communities; Respecting Intellectual Property Rights and Creators; Preventing Censorship and Protecting Free Speech; Enabling Innovation and Ensuring American AI Dominance; Educating Americans and Developing an AI-ready Workforce; and Establishing a Federal Policy Framework Preempting Cumbersome State Laws.
Policy details within each pillar aim to balance citizen protections — such as eliminating child user data collection, augmenting parental safety controls, ensuring ratepayers aren’t burdened with high utility costs and providing tax breaks for AI adoption in small businesses — with ensuring the U.S. isn’t hindered in advancing AI technologies. For example, while ratepayers — those who pay fees to utility providers — are protected, the framework dictates that permitting reform needs to be undertaken to scale more data centers. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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Energy opens applications for $293 million in research funding: The Department of Energy is allocating $293 million in funding to advance the work of Genesis Mission by inviting applications from interdisciplinary scientific teams that use novel artificial intelligence models and frameworks to address pressing issues in technical fields. Energy unveiled a Request for Application on Tuesday targeting diverse teams of researchers that use AI for problem solving in critical fields, specifically advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear energy and quantum information science. “The Genesis Mission has caught the imagination of our scientific and engineering communities to tackle national challenges in the age of AI,” Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission Director Darío Gil said in a press release. “With these investments we seek breakthrough ideas and novel collaborations leveraging the scientific prowess of our National Laboratories, the private sector, universities and science philanthropies.” Awards from this RFA will vary in funding and duration. Phase I awards will range from $500,000 to $750,000 and will last over a nine-month period. Phase II will see awards between $6 million and $15 million allocated over a longer three-year project period. Applicants to Phase I are not prohibited from future work within the longer-term Phase II. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
Webinars and Events
Research Grant Opportunities:
National Science Foundation
National Institutes of Health
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
NASA
Proposal Submission and Streamlyne Information
The NJIT Proposal Submission Guidelines and Policy provides the expected institutional timeline for proposal submission. Streamlyne User Manuals are posted on https://research.njit.edu/streamlyne. For contact information on proposal submission, pre-award services and post-award grant management, please visit research website https://research.njit.edu/researchers and https://research.njit.edu/contact.