The FIRE grant from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign funds interdisciplinary ACES research teams to generate preliminary data for future external funding, focusing on USDA NIFA science areas and Hatch projects.
Supporting Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) supports research collaborations linking agricultural needs with foundational robotics discoveries to advance robots with transformative potential in agriculture.
The USDA/USDOI Joint Fire Science Program anticipates funding research on fire impacts, ignitions, fuel treatments, and graduate research in wildland fire.
The FAIROS program funds projects improving open science through findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data management in either a specific discipline or across disciplines.
The Farm Family Resource Initiative grant funds statewide needs assessments, mental health resources, and support networks to improve the health and well-being of Illinois farm families.
Faculty Fellowship Awards support Illinois faculty developing humanities and humanities-inflected research through a yearlong interdisciplinary seminar that fosters scholarly exchange and community building.