Research opportunities
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- Community submitted · U.S. Fulbright Program
Fellowship/position · Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Grants for U.S. students and recent graduates to study, conduct research or teach abroad for an academic year.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · Google Research
Fellowship/position · Google PhD Fellowship
Fellowships for PhD students doing exceptional research in computer science and related fields, with a Google research mentor.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Community submitted · Hertz Foundation
Fellowship/position · Hertz Fellowship
Long-term PhD fellowship for exceptional students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences, with a lifelong community of fellows.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · iGEM Foundation
Competition · iGEM Competition
International synthetic-biology competition where student teams design, build and present engineered biological systems.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · NSF ACCESS
Grant · NSF ACCESS Computing Allocations
Free allocations of national supercomputing, cloud and storage resources for U.S.-based research and education, with entry-level tiers that can be requested at any time.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty
- Community submitted · National Science Foundation
Grant · NSF I-Corps National Teams
Commercialization training and customer discovery for research technologies; eligible teams can receive up to $50,000. Award: Up to $50,000.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NVIDIA
Fellowship/position · NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program
Research funding and mentorship for PhD students working on topics relevant to accelerated computing, AI and scientific computing.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Official source · Kaggle
Competition · Predicting Soil Grain Size Distributions from Images
Predict cumulative soil grain-size distributions from photographs of soil surfaces.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · HHMIClosed
Fellowship/position · 2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program
PhD fellowship supporting second- and third-year biological/biomedical science students with their faculty thesis advisors. Award: $65,000/year for up to 3 years.
Eligible for: PhD student
- Community submitted · Kaggle / RSNAClosed
Competition · RSNA Knee Abnormality Detection
Multimodal ML for twelve knee MRI abnormalities using MRI studies and multilingual radiology reports. Award: $77,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · American Society of Human GeneticsEnded · 10/20/2026 – 10/24/2026 · Montréal, Québec, Canada
Conference · ASHG 2026 Annual Meeting
Annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, with scientific sessions, posters and trainee programming in Montréal.
- Community submitted · National Science FoundationClosed
Fellowship/position · NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program — FY2027
Major fellowship for outstanding students in research-based STEM master's and doctoral programs. Deadlines by field: Life Sciences Oct 19; CISE, Materials, Psychology, Social Sciences Oct 20; Engineering Oct 22; Chemistry, Geosciences, Math, Physics Oct 23 (2026). Award: $37,000 annual stipend plus cost-of-education allowance.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · USDA NIFAClosed
Grant · National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship
Institutional fellowship grants supporting graduate training in food, agriculture, natural resources and related disciplines. Award: $14M estimated program funding; $78K-$705K award range.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityClosed
Competition · Ready, Set...ID the Biothreat Challenge
AI-assisted algorithms to detect known, novel, and unknown biological threats in environmental metagenomic datasets. Award: $999,990 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · Kaggle / AI4S Open InnovationClosed
Competition · AI4S Open Innovation: AI for Life Science
AI applications in life science, especially organ-on-a-chip, microscopy, drug response and research workflows. Award: $22,200.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · American Chemical SocietyClosed
Grant · ACS Graduate Student Success Grant
Supports graduate students within one year of degree completion when unforeseen circumstances threaten completion. Award: $25,000.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · DREAM / CACHE / SGCClosed
Competition · DREAM x CACHE Target 2035 Drug Discovery Challenge
Use machine learning and molecular design to predict small molecules that bind PGK2, a target associated with sperm motility and non-hormonal contraception.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Industry
- Official source · KaggleClosed
Competition · Kaggriculture
Build an autonomous agent that plays a farming simulation and optimizes farm income, providing a reinforcement-learning/agentic AI problem directly connected to agriculture.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · Farm491 / Royal Agricultural UniversityClosed
Competition · Farm491 Challenge Prize 2026
Supports high-growth innovations that enable nature-friendly multifunctional land use, balancing food production, renewable energy, biodiversity, and competing land pressures.
- Community submitted · Kaggle / Chan Zuckerberg BiohubClosed
Competition · Biohub - Cell Tracking During Development
Develop algorithms to detect, track, and link zebrafish cells across 3D space and time, including cell divisions and lineage reconstruction from microscopy data.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student