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Brown Research Proposal Library

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Brown Research Proposal Library

Research Strategy and Development (RSD) maintains a library of recent successful grant proposals written by Brown faculty. Redacted versions of these proposals are available, by request, only to members of the Brown community.

If you are interested in receiving proposals that resulted in awards from any of the funding programs listed below, please write to orsd@brown.edu. For further insights, reach out to colleagues who have had past success with programs of interest. 

Sample proposals are available on federal agency websites, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities Sample Grant Narratives page, and other sites such as OpenGrants.

Current Brown Research Proposals Available

Currently the RSD library includes proposals to the following funding programs. If you would like to “donate” a proposal to the library, or have suggestions or requests for funding programs to add to the list, reach out to the RSD team.

Department of Defense (DOD) Proposals

  • Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
  • Army Research Office (ARO)
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) regular multiple
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award
  • Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Proposals

  • NIH Research Project Grant Program (R01)
  • NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposals

  • Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
  • NSF Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
  • NSF Cognitive Neuroscience Program (CogNeuro)
  • Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
  • Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
  • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
  • National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
  • Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC)
  • NSF: Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences (RTG)
  • NSF: Scalable Nanomanufacturing (SNM)

Other Federal Grant Proposals

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP)
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Open
  • Department of Energy (DOE) Basic Energy Science Program

Research Strategy and Development

The Research Strategy and Development (RSD) team collaborates with the research enterprise and Brown faculty to identify research funding opportunities, perform strategic planning, develop research proposals and provide research leadership.

Consult RSD